Have your say: Significance of the gender divide in the financial services industry
Posted on 12 April 2012.
Finsia is currently conducting follow up research to its 2010 survey of financial service professionals about their perceptions of the gender divide in the financial services industry, and is calling for volunteers to participate by completing an onlin…
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Female recruiters will penalise beautiful women when reviewing job applicants; while handsome men are favored, says new research
Posted on 12 April 2012.
Two economists have released a report that says if a female HR
professional receives a resume including a photo from an attractive
female applicant, the resume is likely to land in the bin because of
jealousy and rivalry. The researchers sent bogu…
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Violence Against Women: 1 in 3 Australian women in abusive relationships, 1 woman killed every week by intimate partner. Did you know?
Posted on 12 April 2012.
On Tuesday evening I attended a welcome reception for the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Rashida Manjoo (thanks to UN Women Australia for the invitation, and to Allens Arthur Robinson for hosting this important event). It was &nd…
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Lifting the lid on sexism in football
Posted on 04 April 2012.
‘While football has spent millions of pounds on campaigns to stamp out racism and homophobia from the game, sexism continues to be tolerated – whether that means thousands of fans chanting “slut” at a TV reporter during a live televised game, fem…
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Events worth attending in BRISBANE for Women in IT and Women on Boards (or aspiring to be!)
Posted on 04 April 2012.
I’ve received invitations to these events in Brisbane which are guaranteed to be great – pity I can’t make it this time but I will be there in August for an event with CPA Australia – stay tuned for the invitations to that one!
The inaugural Wome…
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Join the Face It Facebook Campaign: How 7 white male board members is defriending women
Posted on 04 April 2012.
Since I wrote in February about the Facebook IPO and complete lack of women on the Facebook board, it seems a lot of others have been standing up and demanding to be heard on the same issue. Women, after all, make up the majority of Facebook users and …
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