Examining academic workload data: who worked the hardest?

Higher education reforms have meant increased focus on research and teaching excellence which has workload implications for academic staff. Australia has been at the forefront of encouraging gender based reforms and attempts to achieve gender equity but has this goal been achieved? This paper focuses on investigating the issue of gender equality in terms of research output and teaching responsibility and uses actual workload data rather than relying on staff memories of past events. The results show no significant differences between workloads for males and females on the five workload measures observed in this study. However, this paper does find that females are underrepresented in senior positions across the 2 universities studied. Academic and managerial implications and future research are suggested.