Posted on 10 August 2010. Tags: Employers
The Harvard Business Review has published the daily stat that greater happiness is linked to a higher future income. On a five-point happiness scale, a one-point increase was linked to a 3% higher income. So if happier women earn more, then happier women are more productive. Therefore you want your women workers to be happy […]
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Posted on 03 August 2010. Tags: Employers, News
Kristy Fraser-Kirk has made headlines recently by launching a $37 million lawsuit against David Jones for the behaviour of former CEO Mark McInnes and the corporate world has been stirred into a conversation rife with diagnoses of the moral to this story. There has been a lot of discussion about what Fraser-Kirk is hoping to […]
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Posted on 25 June 2010. Tags: Diversity, Employers
Apparently so! “The stupid curve” phenomenon (named by former Deloitte USA Chairman Mike Cook) that describes the curve you see in graphs that source 90% of their leaders from only 50% of their workforce. And Australia ranks behind peer countries in regards to number of women in senior executive roles… Diversity and Flexibility E-newsletter […]
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Posted on 19 June 2010. Tags: Diversity, Employers
Catalyst has just published their second report Pipeline’s Broken Promise examines the flawed assumptions in conventional wisdom of the past decades that counted on parity in education, an increase of women into the labour force and company implemented diversity/inclusion programs to yield an equitable and robut talent pipelines, with women surging to the top in […]
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Posted on 17 June 2010. Tags: Diversity, Employers, Negotiation, The Glass Ceiling
The Equal Pay Alliance has made 2010 the year for real action on the pay gap for working women. The Equal Pay Alliance is made up of 150 representatives from government, unions (including the Australian Council of Trade Unions) and businesses.And I am delighted to pass on that the campaign has kicked off with the […]
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Posted on 15 June 2010. Tags: Courses and Conferences, Diversity, Employers, Offers
Finsia (Financial Services Institute of Australasia) is running a business networking lunch in Sydney on Wednesday the 28th of July (12-2pm). Gender diversity is an issue especially pronounced in the financial services sector, and I’m really excited that Finsia is paying serious attention to how we overcome these issues. They have a great line up of speakers ready to discuss the issues […]
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