Overview
- Describes the early career outcomes for female creative graduates in Australia and the UK
- Compares creative women’s employment outcomes to those of men and non-creative graduates
- Covers a broad range of cultural and creative domains, from the performing arts to architecture
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This book describes the early career outcomes for female creative graduates in Australia and the UK. It applies the international UNESCO model of the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) to national graduate destination survey data in order to compare creative women’s employment outcomes to those of men, as well as non-creative graduates. Chapters focus on opportunities for creative and cultural work, including salaries, geographic mobility, graduate jobs, underemployment, and skills transferability. The model covers a broad range of cultural and creative domains such as heritage, the performing arts, visual arts and craft, publishing and media industries, fashion, architecture and advertising. The book’s purpose is to provide an informed discussion and empirical report to key stakeholders in the topic, such as academic researchers, teachers and students, as well as cultural sector organisations and education departments.
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Reviews
“Written with clarity and insight, this book describes the early career outcomes for female creative graduates in Australia and the UK. What makes the study distinct is the wealth of quantitative data drawn upon to analyse gendered differences in creative graduate outcomes in a range of cultural and creative domains. The book will be a significant point of reference for students, scholars and policymakers interested in creative degrees, career outcomes and their gendered dynamics.” (Christina Scharff, Reader in Gender, Media and Culture, King’s College London, UK)
“Gender and the Creative Labour Market: Graduates in Australia and the UK is a vitally important book that brings much needed clarity to debates over creative education, creative work, and inequality in creative industries. The data and analysis in the book is comprehensive, demonstrating the clear differences in creative career success as a result of gender inequalities. The case for reformingan unfair and discriminatory creative labour market is compelling, and employers, businesses, and governments must act. Most importantly, the comparative perspective points the way for future research, offering a blueprint for future projects, as well as vital insights for a global readership.” (Dave O’Brien, Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Sheffield, UK)
“Drawing upon graduate destination data from two same but different national contexts, Gender and the Creative Labour Market offers valuable multidisciplinary insights into the ongoing gender inequalities of cultural and creative work. It reveals how women pursuing creative careers continue to be disadvantaged from the get go in a labour market well-known for its precarity, as well as presumed mobility and flexibility.” (Susan Luckman, Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of South Australia, Australia)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Scott Brook is Associate Professor of Communication in the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Australia.
Roberta Comunian is Reader in Creative Economy in the Department for Culture, Media and Creative Industries, Kings College London, UK.
Jonathan Corcoran is Professor of Human Geography and the Director of the Queensland Centre for Population Research at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Alessandra Faggian is Professor of Applied Economics and the Director of Social Sciences, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy.
Sarah Jewell is Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, University of Reading, UK.
Jen Webb is Distinguished Professor of Creative Practice in the Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender and the Creative Labour Market
Book Subtitle: Graduates in Australia and the UK
Editors: Scott Brook, Roberta Comunian, Jonathan Corcoran, Alessandra Faggian, Sarah Jewell, Jen Webb
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05067-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05066-4Published: 15 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05069-5Published: 15 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-05067-1Published: 14 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 155
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Policy and Politics, Media and Communication, Sociology of Work, Culture and Gender