Unequal outcomes for women academics in Australian Universities: reflections on Belinda Probert's 'I just couldn't fit in'

The position of women academics in Australia is similar to that in other countries, where women are still under-represented in senior academic leadership positions. Why does progress seem to be so slow? This article hopes to contribute critically to the challenge entailed by Belinda Probert's (2005) work , ' “I just couldn't fit in': gender and unequal outcomes in academic careers”. It considers her conclusions in the light of the 1992-2005 data from one of Australia’s new universities, Victoria University in Melbourne. The paper also intros a flow (or transition) model for analysing staffing changes in organisations that provides insights not usually presented in the literature on gender inequity in academic employment. The paper proposes a holistic explanation for persistant gender inequity, combining structural barriers in appointments with the unequal responsibilities women have for care