Posted on 10 February 2012. Tags: childcare, Family, Flexibility at Work, Motherhood and Home, worklifebalance
Q: I was also hoping you might advise how best to approach what is a bad situation – how do you suggest parents proceed when it comes time to return to work and put their child/ren in care? I realise there’s no magic bullet but some good advice would help balance the depressing reality! Thanks, […]
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Posted on 10 February 2012. Tags: Career Management, Employers
My LinkedIn buddy Connie is always sending me thought starters for the day… and I couldn’t help but share this one. Have you come across a job ad like this one lately? (Click on the image for a full-size view) So is it just me… or is there something wrong with this picture??
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Posted on 07 February 2012. Tags: Women on boards
Do you heart Facebook? Many women do it seems – with 58 per cent of its users being women. That’s no small number when you consider the 800million users on Facebook. Apparently women spend more time than men making status and profile updates and commenting on others’ posts (I know that’s certainly true of my […]
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Posted on 07 February 2012. Tags: Jen Dalitz speaking
It’s just around the corner again: International Women’s Day is almost upon us again for 2012! If you are organising an International Women’s Day event and would like to add me to your speaker lineup, please contact my office so that we can make arrangements while I still have some availability. If you book me […]
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Posted on 02 February 2012. Tags: Gender Balance, leadership
I received this article from Carol Schwartz of the Women’s Leadership Institute of Australia… So it turns out only 17% of Davos participants this year were women, despite a new quota system demanding that the largest members send one woman for every four men. According to Saadia Zahidi, the WEF’s head of constituents who is […]
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Posted on 02 February 2012. Tags: Employers, pay equity
In a landmark case for closing the gender pay gap, the Full Bench of Fair Work Australia yesterday agreed to make an equal remuneration order under section 302 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth). What this effectively means is that there will be an increase of up to 41% in the Award pay rates […]
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