Posted on 01 November 2010. Tags: Best Practices, Bias & stereotypes, Career Management, Diversity, Management and Leadership
Over the past months I’ve read a number of engaging SheEO blogs on women in leadership roles and moving into the boardroom. Those are aspirational goals and ones that every little girl should have in her toy garage or dollhouse at the ready. But, what about those women who are more than competent, but for […]
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Posted on 27 October 2010. Tags: Best Practices, Career Management, Diversity, Good Guys
John Colvin, CEO of the Australian Institute of Company Directors is really leading the ranks of good guys and showing his commitment to gender diversity on boards with the announcement of a new Board Diversity Scholarship Program by the AICD. Under the program, the AICD together with the Australian Government Office for Women will award […]
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Posted on 13 October 2010. Tags: Best Practices, Diversity, Employers, Quotas, Supporting women worldwide, The Glass Ceiling
At an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce gathering in Sydney this week Westpac Chief Gail Kelly announced a new target to lift female representation in the Bank’s top 10% leadership ranks from the 33% of present to 40% by 2014. Speaking at the same event, Prime Minister Julia Gillard and prominant board director Catherine Livingstone also […]
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Posted on 11 October 2010. Tags: Best Practices, Diversity, Employers
I’ve long held the belief that women alone can’t solve the gender equality puzzle… but getting men to drive the change is sometimes easier said than done. This article from The Glass Hammer points out that while gender equality is a hot topic, the message hasn’t yet filtered down to the “Average Joe”. Author Elizabeth […]
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Posted on 07 October 2010. Tags: Best Practices, Mentoring
The likelihood of women to be promoted is all about mentoring – says an article in last month’s Harvard Business Review. According to the authors of Why Men Still Get More Promotions than Women, it all comes down to mentoring. While women are as likely to get access to mentoring as men are, they’re less […]
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Posted on 06 October 2010. Tags: Best Practices, Diversity
The Reibey Institute, a newly founded Australian research centre focused on women’s leadership issues, released it’s first research note today noting amongst many preliminary findings that over the past 3 and 5 year periods, ASX500 companies with women directors on their boards delivered significantly higher Return on Equity (ROE) than those companies without women directors. […]
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