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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Australian research finds ASX500 companies with women directors deliver higher return to shareholders
Posted on 06 October 2010.
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The ASX gender reporting guidelines: what it means for every employer and women in business
Posted on 01 October 2010.
On Tuesday I delivered a presentation to the CPA Business Women’s network in Sydney on the ASX guidelines and what it means for the War for Female Talent that is really hotting up. I believe that 2011 is shaping up to be a big year for women in business: the new ASX guidelines require companies […]
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Introducing the sphinxx directory of recommended services – our network is about to become yours!
Posted on 29 September 2010.
If you’ve ever been responsible for establishing employee development programs, conferences or leadership offsites, you’ll know just difficult it can be to find fantastic, out of this world, leading-edge service providers. In a sea of social media and spin, my vast network send me calls for help every day – by email, LinkedIn, twitter and […]
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2010 EOWA Census of Women in Leadership – will you be at the results launch?
Posted on 27 September 2010.
For those of you responsible for measuring and managing the number of women in senior roles in your workplace, you won’t want to miss the launch of the 2010 EOWA census results. This is the official measure of women in leadership in Australia and feeds into the Catalyst international reporting metrics. Mike Smith, CEO and […]
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CEO of Areva, the world’s largest nuclear energy firm spells out exactly why companies should hire women, for their own sakes
Posted on 23 September 2010.
Anne Lauvergeon is one alarmingly impressive woman. Not only is she the CEO of Areva, but the energy industry is notorious for poor female representation – an issue she has worked to counter and she explains in this article exactly why it’s worth it. Her thoughts are especially timely given the French lower house has […]
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How does corporate Australia stack up re: attitudes towards gender diversity and driving gender equality?
Posted on 23 September 2010.
Bain & Company has just released a brief titled “Level the playing field: A call for action on gender parity in Australia” outlines key findings in relation to attitudes of men and women towards gender parity. Based on the results of an extensive survey of 1200 members of the Australian business community, the study found […]
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