Editing Quentin Bryce (section)

==Career==
[[File:QuentinBryceatFloriade.jpg|thumb|upright|Bryce at [[Floriade (Canberra)|Floriade]], the national flower show in Canberra on 3 October 2010.]]
After spending some time in London, Bryce returned to Australia and accepted a part-time tutoring position at the [[TC Beirne School of Law|T. C. Beirne School of Law]] at the University of Queensland in 1968, thus becoming the first woman to be appointed to the faculty.<ref name="Condon2008lawstaff">Condon (10 May 2008) once again quotes Naida Haxton, who clarifies that Bryce was the first woman on staff, but that Haxton was the first woman to teach in the faculty, having lectured prior to Bryce's appointment, but not as a faculty member.</ref> In 1969 she took up a lecturing position at the law school,<ref name="Wright2003">Wright (11 March 2003), p. 13.</ref> and she continued to teach at the university until 1983.<ref name="Condon2008" />

In 1978 the [[Malcolm Fraser|Fraser]] government formed the National Women's Advisory Council and Bryce was "vaulted to prominence" with her appointment to the council,<ref name="Condon2008" /> taking on the role of convener in 1982.<ref name="Wright2003" /> In 1984 she became the first director of the Queensland Women's Information Service under the umbrella of the [[Office of the Status of Women]]<ref name="Murphy2008">Murphy (14 April 2008)</ref> and was appointed as the "women's representative on the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation".<ref name="Wright2003" /> In 1987 she became the Queensland director of the [[Australian Human Rights Commission|Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission]] (HREOC).<ref name="Murphy2008" />

Over a five-year period (1988–1993) Bryce served as Federal [[Sex Discrimination Commissioner]] during the time of the [[Bob Hawke|Hawke]] [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] government.<ref name="McLean2003">McLean (15 March 2003), p. 31.</ref> Her time in the role was a busy one, with around 2,000 complaints being handled by the commission each year and the work difficult and complex.<ref name="Summers2001">Summers (6 August 2001), p. 10.</ref> The period was also noted as being one of "galloping legal reform" for the rights of women, yet, as Sandra McLean described it, Bryce kept a firm grip on the "reins of change" during this time.<ref name="McLean2003" /> Nevertheless, concerns were raised when, in 1990, Alexander Proudfoot formally complained that the women's health centres in the [[Australian Capital Territory]] were operating in breach of the [[Sex Discrimination Act 1984|Sex Discrimination Act]].<ref name="Murphy2008" /> This culminated in 1994 when Bryce faced an HREOC hearing after being accused of discriminating against Proudfoot – and ended when the commission found in Bryce's favour and dismissed the complaint, stating that the behaviour in question "did not reflect on the way Ms Bryce discharged her duties".<ref name="Williams2008">Williams (14 April 2008), p. 4.</ref>

After finishing her time as the Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Bryce became the founding chair and chief executive officer of the National Childcare Accreditation Council, where she remained for three years<ref name="Murphy2008" /> before changing direction between 1997 and 2003 when she became the principal and chief executive officer of [[The Women's College, University of Sydney|The Women's College]] within the [[University of Sydney]], [[New South Wales]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thewomenscollege.com.au/history.php|title=History|publisher=The Women's College within the University of Sydney|access-date=14 April 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080412100019/http://www.thewomenscollege.com.au/history.php|archive-date=12 April 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The move was said to have "stunned her political and legal acquaintances",<ref name="Condon2008" /> but Bryce saw it as bringing "together all the life skills and attributes" that she had acquired, as well as providing an opportunity to have an influence on the students' futures.<ref name="Packham2008">Packham (14 April 2003), p. 5</ref>

In other roles, Bryce has been the chair of the National Breast Cancer Advisory Council and sat on the Australian Women's Cricket Board,<ref name="Packham2008" /> and has been a member of organisations such as the [[World YWCA|YWCA]], the [[Australian Children's Television Foundation]] and the [[Association for the Wellbeing of Children in Healthcare|Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital]].<ref name="hansard2003">{{cite hansard|url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/hansard/2003/030311HA.PDF|title=Appointment of Governor of Queensland|format=PDF|house=Queensland Parliament Legislative Assembly|date=11 March 2003|page_start=374|page_end=375|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408145414/http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/hansard/2003/030311HA.PDF|archivedate=8 April 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Bryce was also a US State Department Visitor in 1978 and a Member of the Australian Delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland from 1989 to 1991.<ref name="Who's Who 2010" />