The woeful state of Australia’s female representation at executive and board level and lack of real action to improve this issue creates a lot of conversation and study about what programs are working overseas. One of the most standard out initiatives is Norway’s 40% quota for board members. Women make up 40% of board members […]
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Norway has the worlds leading board diversity initiative, but what can businesses learn from their example? Is it working?
Posted on 27 August 2010.
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Sydneysiders – Invitation to attend “Unhappy hour” for Equal Pay Day on September 4th – Women are paid 18 percent less an hour so you’ll get 18 percent off your food and drink!
Posted on 26 August 2010.
The pay gap between men and women workers isn’t getting better, but women are getting more active and better coordinated to tackle this issue head on. Pay disparity is one of the issues, like many in employing women that has many causes but one of them is definitely the lack of scrutiny applied to the […]
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Elizabeth Broderick’s Blue Print For Achieving Gender Equality – what the report proposes for working women – pay equity, targets, quotas, support for parents and better sex harassment policies!
Posted on 26 August 2010.
Elizabeth Broderick, the Sex Discrimination Commissioner has released a report that outlines the inquiries, investments and initiatives to rectify a wide range gendered imbalances Australian face. The issues fall into five priority areas: balancing paid work and family/caring responsibilities, ensuring women’s lifetime economic security, promoting women in leadership, preventing violence against women and sexual harassment […]
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Election 2010: women MP’s now make up less then 25 percent of parliament, with significant consequences
Posted on 24 August 2010.
“Until the Government looks like the society it seeks to govern there will be an imbalance in the decision making process.” Why has the number of female political leaders dropped? Partly because 9 out of 20 of the sitting members who did not seek re election were women, but also because women make up less […]
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Resources to help with improving gender diversity on boards
Posted on 23 August 2010.
The Australian Institute of Company Directors has launched a new service directory aimed at helping organisations to increase their female representation on boards. The new service directory includes a list of gender diversity consultants and service providers who can help them to solve the gender dilemma – including sphinxx which is listed there along with […]
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Australian companies need to be doing more to close the gender pay gap as a means of increasing competitiveness and productivity
Posted on 20 August 2010.
Closing the gender pay gap “is just plain good business sense,” said the CEO of DCA, Nareen Young. Find out how diversity pays.
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