The link between parenting and pay has been demonstrated in a study that shows postponing motherhood leads to an increase in women’s earnings of 9% per year of delay, according to Amalia R. Miller of the University of Virginia. As you might expect, the wage advantage was largest for college-educated women who have the potential […]
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Wealth advice for women: delaying having children will boost your pay by 9 per cent per year
Posted on 13 October 2011.
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Equal Pay Day: Who really cares whether men and women are paid the same, anyway?
Posted on 01 September 2011.
I’m supposed to be at an Equal Pay Day event right now… but I was so cranky that women still earn 17% less than men in equivalent roles that I decided to stay home. Instead of hearing more women speak about how unjust the gap is, and decree another call to action for the female […]
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Have your say on Equal Pay for Women – new survey requires your input
Posted on 24 June 2011.
re you really being paid what your worth? Or as much as he’s being paid in your equivalent role? Does it really matter anyway? It’s a fact that women working full-time, year-round in Australia are paid only about 83 cents for every dollar earned by men – and that’s an improvement over last year! More […]
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Why are women are still leaving top organisations and jobs in their droves… and why don’t business leaders stop it from happening?
Posted on 10 January 2011.
Back in 2005, just a couple of years after completing my MBA, my classmate Bianca sent a copy of Off-Ramps and On-Ramps (a Harvard Business Review article by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce) to all the women in our cohort. The article which highlights the large numbers of highly qualified women dropping out of mainstream careers was […]
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Is being a woman – and the social pressures that come with being of the fairer sex – the reason why women need more help with financial planning?
Posted on 25 October 2010.
Panty hose. Make up. Hair cuts and colours. And an ever changing wardrobe. Being a woman is expensive – don’t we know it. And made all the more so by the increasing gender pay gap in Australia. This article not only points out what we’ve long known about the costs of being a woman, but […]
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Australians are still confused about the meaning of gender pay equity, survey by Diversity Council of Australia finds
Posted on 13 October 2010.
A new study conducted for Diversity Council Australia (DCA) and the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace agency (EOWA) shows that 64 per cent of Australians wrongly think that pay equity means equal pay for men and women who are doing the same job. Just 14 per cent of people agreed with the correct […]
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