Prof Rhonda Sharp

Prof Rhonda Sharp

School of Society and Culture

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

Professor Rhonda Sharp is an adjunct at the University of South Australia. She was formerly a Research Chair and Professor of Economics at the Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia. She is also a member, and a past Director, of the Research Centre for Gender Studies which is key concentration in the Hawke Research Institute.

Professor Sharp's work on gender, and government policies and budgets began in the mid 1980s when she developed the framework for Australia’s first state government level ‘gender -responsive budget’ initiative in South Australia. Over the past 25 years she has furthered her work of integrating a gender perspective into economic and social policies through research, writing and working with governments, NGOS and international organizations. She was co-author of one of the earliest books on women and Australian economic policies- Shortchanged: Women and Economic Policies (with R Broomhill, Allen and Unwin). She was a founding member and later President of the International Association for Feminist Economics. She served as a member of the UN Expert Group, Financing Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment and a contributor to its report. She is a member of the gender panel of the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and has been appointed as a board member on state government authorities in areas of transport, superannuation and social justice.

In 2012 Professor Sharp was awarded a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours for her services to education as an academic and a researcher and to the study of economics and women. In 2003 she was awarded the Centenary Federation Medal by the Australian Government for services to education and society.

Projects funded by Australian Research Council and National Competitive Grants2011-13 'Missing Workers: Retaining Mature Age Women Workers to ensure Future Labour Security', Australian Research Council Discovery Grant with A/Professor Siobhan Austen, Professor Gill Lewin and Dr Rachel Ong and Dr Therese Jefferson, Curtin University of Technology. 2009-12 'Epistemologies of Workplace Change Transforming Gender Relations in Engineering', Australian Research Council Discovery Grant with Professors Suzanne Franzway, Julie Mills and Judy Gill,University of South Australia. 2008-11 'Budgeting for Women’s Economic Empowerment: The Practices of and Potential for Gender Responsive Budgeting in the Asia-Pacific Region', Australian Development Research Award with Professor Diane Elson University of Essex and A/Professor Siobhan Austen Curtin University of Technology. 2008-11 'Restructuring the Male Breadwinner Model?: New Challenges for a Rapidly Changing Australia', Australian Research Council Discovery Grant with A/Professor Ray Broomhill, Adelaide University and Professor Janine Brodie, University of Alberta Canada. 2005-2008 'The Social Sustainability of Emerging Environmentally Sensitive Industries: The case of SA Oyster Farming' Australian Research Council Linkage (APAI) with Professor Jennifer McKay, University of South Australia. 2004-2006 'Engineering Diversity: An Investigation of Gender, Workplace Culture and Change', Australian Research Council Discovery Grant with Professors Suzanne Franzway, Judy Gill and Julie Mills, University of South Australia. 2004 'Reimagining the Ecosocial Sustainability of the Murray-Darling Basin', Australian Research Council Networks Grant with various other CIs across several universities. 2000-2002 'Engendering Restructuring' Australian Research Council Large Grant with A/Professor Ray Broomhill, University of Adelaide. 1998-2000 'Access and Equity in Women's Participation in Vocational Education and Training', Australian Research Council SPIRT (APAI)Grant with A/Professor Suzanne Franzway, University of South Australia. 1999-2001 'Samstag Legacy', Australian Research Council SPIRT (APAI) Grantwith A/Professor Cathy Speck and Professor Ian North,University of South Australia. ,Internationally funded projects 'Gender responsive budgets in the Pacific', Secretariat of the Pacific Community (2004) 'Gender and youth-sensitive public expenditure management in the Pacific', Asian Development Bank (2002-2004) 'Performance oriented budgeting as a tool for gender responsive budgets' United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM, 2002) 'How to do a Gender Sensitive Budget Analysis: Contemporary Research and Practice' (with D Budlender, South Africa), AusAid Commonwealth Secretariat collaboratively funded project (1998) 'Restructuring and women in Australia and Canada' (with J Brodie, I Bakker and R Broomhill), Canadian High Commission grant (1995)

Year Citation
2022 Austen, S., Broomhill, R., Costa, M., & Sharp, R. (2022). Living with risk: retired couples' experiences of a financialised retirement income system. Economic And Labour Relations Review, 33(4), 737-753.
DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2016 Austen, S., Jefferson, T., Lewin, G., Ong, R., & Sharp, R. (2016). Work ability, age and intention to leave aged care work. Australasian journal on ageing, 35(1), 18-22.
DOI Scopus12 WoS12 Europe PMC10
2016 Austen, S., Jefferson, T., Ong, R., Sharp, R., Lewin, G., & Adams, V. (2016). Recognition: applications in aged care work. Cambridge journal of economics, 40(4), 1037-1054.
DOI Scopus8 WoS7
2015 Austen, S., Jefferson, T., Lewin, G., Ong, R., & Sharp, R. D. (2015). Care roles and employment decision-making: the effect of economic circumstance. Journal of industrial relations, 57(5), 665-685.
DOI Scopus5 WoS3
2014 Jefferson, T., Austen, S., Sharp, R., Ong, R., Lewin, G., & Adams, V. (2014). Mixed-methods research: what's in it for economists?. Economic and labour relations review, 25(2), 290-305.
DOI Scopus22 WoS18
2013 Costa, M., Sawer, M., & Sharp, R. (2013). Women acting for women: gender-responsive budgeting in Timor-Leste. International feminist journal of politics, 15(3), 333-352.
DOI Scopus27 WoS22
2013 Adams, V., & Sharp, R. (2013). Reciprocity in caring labor: Nurses' work in residential aged care in Australia. Feminist economics, 100(2), 19-121.
DOI Scopus21 WoS19
2013 Austen, S., Costa, M., Sharp, R., & Elson, D. (2013). Expenditure incidence analysis: a gender-responsive budgeting tool for educational expenditure in Timor-Leste?. Feminist economics, 19(4), 1-24.
DOI Scopus13 WoS9
2012 Sharp, R., Franzway, S., Mills, J., & Gill, J. (2012). Flawed policy, failed politics? Challenging the sexual politics of managing diversity in engineering organizations. Gender, work and organisation, 19(6), 555-572.
DOI Scopus48 WoS40
2011 Mills, J. E., Gill, J., Sharp, R. D., & Franzway, S. M. (2011). Getting it together: feminist interdisciplinary research on women and engineering. Women's Studies International Forum, 34(1), 13-19.
DOI Scopus19 WoS12
2009 Franzway, S. M., Sharp, R. D., Mills, J. E., & Gill, J. (2009). Engineering ignorance the problem of gender equity in engineering. Frontiers-a journal of women studies, 30(1), 89-106.
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2008 Gill, J., Sharp, R. D., Mills, J. E., & Franzway, S. M. (2008). I still wanna be an engineer! Women, education and the engineering profession. European journal of engineering education, 33(4), 391-402.
DOI Scopus99 WoS64
2008 Gill, J., Mills, J. E., Franzway, S. M., & Sharp, R. D. (2008). "Oh you must be very clever!" : high-achieving women, professional power and the ongoing negotiation of workplace identity. Gender and education, 20(3), 223-236.
DOI Scopus42 WoS32
2007 Sharp, R. D., & Vas Dev, S. (2007). Integrating gender into public expenditure: lessons from the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Pacific studies.
2007 Sharp, R. D., & Austen, S. (2007). The 2006 Federal Budget: a gender analysis of the Superannuation Taxation Concessions. Australian journal of labour economics.
2007 Bastalich, W. L., Franzway, S. M., Gill, J., Mills, J. E., & Sharp, R. D. (2007). Disrupting Masculinities: Women Engineers and Engineering Workplace Culture. Australian Feminist Studies, 22(54), 385-400.
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2006 Mills, J. E., Bastalich, W. L., Franzway, S. M., Gill, J., & Sharp, R. D. (2006). Engineering in Australia : an uncomfortable experience for women. Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, 12(2-3), 135-154.
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2006 Sharp, R., Broomhill, R., & Spoehr, J. (2006). Gender indicators online: A resource of the South Australian Government. Development Bulletin (Canberra), 71, 90-93.
2005 Gill, J., Mills, J. E., Franzway, S. M., & Sharp, R. D. (2005). I wanna be an engineer! A tale of high achieving women, professional power and the ongoing negotiation of workplace identity. REDRESS.
2004 Broomhill, R., & Sharp, R. (2004). The changing male breadwinner model in Australia: a new gender order?. Labour & Industry, 15(2), 1-23.
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2002 Sharp, R., & Broomhill, R. (2002). Budgeting for equality: The Australian experience. Feminist Economics, 8(1), 25-47.
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2001 Sharp, R. D. (2001). Economia politica de la auditoria de presupuestos gubernamentales segun sus efectos de genero. Investigacion economica.
1998 Sharp, R. D. (1998). An introduction to development economics. EcoTeacher: Proceedings from the third annual Year 12 student conference, University of South Australia.
1998 Sharp, R. D. (1998). Economic Storytelling. Australian Options.
1998 Sharp, R. D. (1998). An Introduction to development economics. EcoTeacher: Proceedings from the third annual Year 12 student conference, University of South Australia.
1997 Statton, P., Sharp, R. D., McBride, G. F., & Feast, V. D. (1997). Teaching Matters! : Further Evidence in the Economics Education Debate. Australian Economic Papers.
1997 Sharp, R. D. (1997). Introduction to Development Economics. EcoTeacher Conference Proceedings from 2nd Annual Conference.

Year Citation
2024 Austen, S., Himmelweit, S., Sharp, R., & Costa, M. (2024). Negotiating assets in a financialised retirement income system: Evidence from older mixed-sex couple households in Australia. In F. Bennett, S. Avram, & S. Austen (Eds.), Source details - Title: A Research Agenda for Financial Resources within the Household (pp. 209-224). UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
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2023 Costa, M., & Sharp, R. (2023). Gender-responsive budgeting. In M. Sawer (Ed.), Source details - Title: Handbook of Feminist Governance (pp. 138-149). US: Edward Elgar Publishing.
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2020 Austen, S., & Sharp, R. (2020). Feminist economics and retirement income and savings policy. In M. Sawer, F. Jenkins, & K. Downing (Eds.), Source details - Title: How Gender Can Transform the Social Sciences (pp. 127-136). Switzerland: Springer.
DOI Scopus1
2017 Austen, S., Sharp, R., Jefferson, T., & Ong, R. (2017). Missing mature age women in Australia's aged care sector. In R. J. Burke, & L. M. Calvano (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Sandwich Generation: Caring for Oneself and Others at Home and at Work (pp. 218-241). UK: Edward Elgar.
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2016 Costa, M., & Sharp, R. (2016). Budgetary policy, gender equality and the politics of change in Timor-Leste. In S. Niner (Ed.), Source details - Title: Women and the politics of gender in post-conflict Timor-Leste: between heaven and earth (pp. 113-128). US: Routledge.
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2016 Jefferson, T., Austen, S., Sharp, R., Ong, R., Adams, V., & Lewin, G. (2016). A mixed methods approach to investigating the employment decisions of aged care workers in Australia. In F. S. Lee, & B. Cronin (Eds.), Source details - Title: Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Heterodox Economics (pp. 445-465). UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
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2013 Broomhill, R., & Sharp, R. (2013). Gender at work and in the home. In J. Spoehr (Ed.), State of South Australia: turbulent times (3 ed., pp. 189-207). Australia: Wakefield Press.
2011 Elson, D., & Sharp, R. D. (2011). Gender-responsive budgeting and women's poverty. In S. Chant (Ed.), Source details - Title: The international handbook of gender and poverty: concepts, research, policy (pp. 522-527). Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Edward Elgar.
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2009 Sharp, R., & Broomhill, R. (2009). Gender. In John Spoehr (Ed.), State of South Australia: From Crisis to Prosperity? (pp. 152-176). South Australia: Wakefield Press.
2009 Sharp, R. D. (2009). The super revolution. In G. Bloustien (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Hawke legacy (pp. 198-211). Kent Town, SA: Wakefield Press.
2008 Sharp, R. D., & Elson, D. (2008). Memperbaiki anggaran : kerangka untuk menilai anggaran responsif gender. In M. A. Tasrif (Ed.), Source details - Title: Audit gender : terhadap kebijakan anggaran di Indonesia (pp. 46-56). Jakarta: Kerjasama Civic Education and Budget Transparency Advocacy.
2007 Sharp, R. D., & Cooper, J. (2007). Engendering accountability in government budgets in Mexico. In M. G. Cohen (Ed.), Source details - Title: Remapping gender in the new global order (pp. 205-222). London ; New York: Routledge.
2007 Broomhill, R., & Sharp, R. (2007). The problem of social reproduction under neoliberalism: Reconfiguring the male-breadwinner model in Australia. In M. Cohen, & J. Brodie (Eds.), Remapping Gender in the New Global Order (pp. 85-108). USA: Routledge.
2006 Broomhill, R., & Sharp, R. (2006). A new gender (dis)order? - Neoliberal restructuring in Australia. In G. Laxer, & D. Soron (Eds.), Not for sale: Decommodifying public life (pp. 127-140). Post Office Box 1243, Ontario, Canada: Broadview Press.
2005 Sharp, R., & Broomhill, R. (2005). Gender-responsive policy. In J. Spoehr (Ed.), State of South Australia: Trends and Issues (pp. 151-169). Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press.
2003 Sharp, R. (2003). Government budgets: integrating a gender perspective. In Source details - Title: Economics As A Social Science: Readings In Political Economy (2 ed., pp. 243-246). Australia: Pluto Press Australia Ltd.
2002 Sharp, R. D. (2002). Moving forward: multiple strategies and guiding goals. In K. Judd (Ed.), Source details - Title: Gender Budget Initiatives (pp. 86-98). New York: United Nations Development Fund for Women.
1999 Broomhill, R., & Sharp, R. (1999). Restructuring our lives. In Beyond the contract state: ideas for social and economic renewal in South Australia, 1999 (pp. 132-155). Adelaide: Wakefield Press.

Year Citation
2011 Sharp, R., & Broomhill, R. (2011). Reconfiguring the male breadwinner gender regime: workplace and industrial relations policies in Australia under Julia Gillard's Labor government. In Conference proceedings of the annual IAFFE conference. US: International Association for Feminist Economics.
2011 Costa, M., Sawer, M., & Sharp, R. (2011). Women acting for women: the case of gender responsive public finance in Timor-Leste. In Proceedings of the Australian Political Studies Association Conference 2011: Crisis, Uncertainty and Democracy (pp. 1-12). Australia: Australian National University.
2011 Adams, V., & Sharp, R. D. (2011). Reciprocity: the case of aged care nurses' work. In Heterodox economics: ten years and growing stronger! : 10th Australian society of heterodox economists conference (pp. 1-14). Sydney, Australia: Society of heterodox economists.
2009 Costa, M., Sharp, R., & Austen, S. (2009). Unlocking the potential for gender-sensitive public finances in Timor-Leste. In L. Chester, M. Johnson, & P. Kriesler (Eds.), Proceedings of the eighth Australian society of heterodox economists conference: Heterodox Economics' visions (pp. 151-168). Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales.
2009 Austen, S., Edwards, J., & Sharp, R. (2009). Funding quality improvements in girl's education in Islamic schools in Indonesia. In L. Chester, M. Johnson, & P. Kriesler (Eds.), Heterodox economics' visions - proceedings (pp. 29-45). NSW, Australia: Society of Heterodox Economists, University of New South Wales.
2009 Mills, J., Gill, J., Franzway, S., & Sharp, R. (2009). Sustaining and enjoying a multi-disciplinary, multi-department, multi-campus research collaboration on women in engineering. In S. A. Rajala (Ed.), 2009 ASEE annual conference program: final conference program and proceedings (pp. 1-10). US: American Society for Engineering Education.
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2007 Sharp, R. D. (2007). Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women. In United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, Fifty-first session. New York.
2007 Sharp, R. D., Mills, J. E., Franzway, S. M., Gill, J., & Adams, V. (2007). Market forces will make it happen! Management perspectives on diversity strategies in engineering workplaces. In Our work...our lives : national conference on women and industrial relations : proceedings of the 2nd national conference. South Australia: Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia.
2006 Sharp, R. D. (2006). Engendering the government budget: performance budgeting and the challenge of the care economy. In Proceedings of the 35th Australian Conference of Economists. Perth, Australia: Curtin Unversity.
2006 Sharp, R. D., & Austen, S. (2006). The female-friendliest treasurer of them all. In Essays in heterodox economics proceedings refereed papers. Sydney, Australia: The University of New South Wales.
2005 Sharp, R. D. (2005). Engendering budgets, budgetary reform and sustainable human development. In Planned Panel on Transforming the Mainstream: New Goals and Strategies. Korea.
2005 Gill, J., Mills, J. E., Sharp, R. D., & Franzway, S. M. (2005). Education beyond technical competence: Gender issues in the working lives of engineers. In Proceedings: 2005 4th ASEE/AaeE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education.. Australia: School of Engineering, The University of Queensland.
2005 Sharp, R. D. (2005). Government Budgets and Gender Equality in the Pacific Islands. In SPC 9th Triennial Conference and the 2nd Ministerial on Women. Fiji Islands: Star Printery.
2004 Sharp, R. D. (2004). Government budget and gender equality in the Pacific Islands. In 9th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women. Fiji.
2004 Franzway, S. M., Gill, J., Mills, J. E., Sharp, R. D., & Bastalich, W. L. (2004). Towards a feminist politics of work: revisioning a research project on women engineers. In TASA (The Australian Sociological Association) 2004 Conference Proceedings. Australia: The Australian Sociological Association (TASA).
2003 Bastalich, W. L., Mills, J. E., Franzway, S. M., Gill, J., & Sharp, R. D. (2003). I had this real feeling that it was a boys club. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference Australiasian Association for Engineering Education and 9th Australiasian Women in Engineering Forum. Australia: Australasian Association for Engineering Education.
1997 Sharp, R. D. (1997). A Feminist Economic Perspective of Public Policy. In Women on the Move: Maintaining the Momentum. Adelaide, South Australia: TransAdelaide-Corporate and Business Development.

Year Citation
2013 Sharp, R. D., & Broomhill, R. (2013). A Case Study of Gender Responsive Budgeting in Australia. UK: Commonwealth Secretariat.
2009 Sharp, R. D., & Costa, M. (2009). Gender responsive budgeting: final report for Indonesian Learning Assistance Program for Islamic Schools. Australia: Learning Assistance Program for Islamic Schools.
2009 Sharp, R. D., Costa, M., Mundkur, A., & Elson, D. (2009). Country Profile - The Kingdom of Thailand. Australia.
2009 Sharp, R., Elson, D., Costa, M., & Vas Dev, S. (2009). Country Profile - Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. Australia.
2009 Sharp, R., Elson, D., Costa, M., Vas Dev, S., & Mundkur, A. (2009). Country Profile - People's Republic of Bangladesh. Australia.
2009 Sharp, R., Vas Dev, S., Elson, D., & Costa, M. (2009). Country Profile - Republic of the Marshall Islands. Australia.
2009 Elson, D., Jesus Clara Costa, M., Sharp, R., & Vas Dev, S. (2009). Country Profile - Republic of India. Australia.
2009 Vas Dev, S., Sharp, R., Elson, D., & Costa, M. (2009). Country Profile - Federation of Malaysia. Australia.
2009 Ichii, R., Elson, D., Sharp, R., & Vas Dev, S. (2009). Country Profile - Japan. Australia.
2009 Elson, D., Sharp, R., Ichii, R., Vas Dev, S., & Costa, M. (2009). Country Profile - The Republic of South Korea. Australia.
2009 Jesus Clara Costa, M., Sharp, R., & Elson, D. (2009). Country Profile - Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. Australia.
2009 Sharp, R., Costa, M., Vas Dev, S., & Elson, D. (2009). Country Profile - New Zealand. Australia.
2009 Jesus Clara Costa, M., Sharp, R., Elson, D., Vas Dev, S., & Mundkur, A. (2009). Country Profile - Afghanistan. Australia.
2008 Pierce, J., Thompson, K., Sharp, R., & McKay, J. (2008). Their world is an oyster : sustainability of emerging environmentally sensitive oyster aquaculture communities on the South Australian Eyre Peninsula : final report to the Eyre Regional Development Board. Adelaide, South Australia: Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies ; School of Commerce, University of South Australia.

  • Inside the black box: Intra-household resource allocations of older couples, ARC - Discovery Projects, 01/01/2017 - 31/12/2019

  • Email: rhonda.sharp@adelaide.edu.au
  • Alternative Contact: phone+61 8 8302 2964Hawke Research Institute Building FLCUniversity of South AustraliaArthur Lemon AvenueUnderdaleSA 5032

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