12 Facts About Marian Sawer

Marian Sawer is a professor emeritus at the Australian National University.

Marian Sawer moved to Australia to attend Ascham School in Sydney, and subsequently attended the Australian National University in Canberra.

Marian Sawer experienced difficulties with workplace gender discrimination and in 1979, after completing a survey on the status of women in Australian political science departments, she and Carole Pateman co-founded the women's caucus of the Australasian Political Studies Association.

Marian Sawer founded the Association of Women Employees at the ANU in 1983.

Marian Sawer later joined the Office of the Status of Women within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

In 1990, Marian Sawer joined the University of Canberra, where in 1993 she was appointed as an associate professor in politics.

Marian Sawer later returned to her alma mater ANU, initially in a visiting capacity and then as head of the university's political science program.

Marian Sawer was promoted to full professorial rank in 2003.

Marian Sawer was elected to the executive of the International Political Science Association in 2006 and served as vice-president from 2009 to 2012.

Marian Sawer was co-editor of the organisation's journal International Political Science Review.

Marian Sawer has been married to British-born political scientist James Jupp since 1978, with whom she has one daughter.

Marian Sawer was previously married to Michael Sawer from 1967 to 1977, with whom she had two daughters.