Flexibility can be easier said than done for a long-standing business with entrenched cultural attitudes, especially one that’s in a traditionally male-dominated sector. The challenge is not about wri…
Employers
Atlassian’s diversity head on how start-ups can transform diversity
“Diversity is a critical success driver for every business—not just tech and startups,” says Aubrey Blanche, head of diversity and inclusion at multibillion-dollar tech giant Atlassian. The company, w…
Large employers still extending parental leave incentives despite government plans
Primary carers employed by PepsiCo ANZ can now access 16 weeks of paid parental leave, after the food and beverages provider extended its offering by four weeks. The 16 weeks leave gives it a competit…
Employment law and the outdated misconception that pregnancy is an illness
Employment lawyer Emily Lupo regularly meets women who’ve been discriminated against because they’re pregnant . Below, she looks at Cricket Australia’s pregnancy clause, and its impa…
We need to shake up how we define flexible work
On International Women’s Day last March 2016, then NSW Premier Mike Baird reflected that non-flexible working “makes no sense in the modern workplace”, and that the option to work flexibly shoul…
Australia’s top 10 employers for graduates
A tech company with gender-based hiring quotas is Australia’s best employer for graduates, according to the latest survey of more than 2500 graduates by the Australian Association of Graduate Em…
How women fare when it comes to the mega salaries of corporate Australia
There’s nothing like playing ‘spot the women’ when it comes to lists ranking the salaries of those in the mega-rich stratosphere. One of the most interesting of such lists is also one of the most diff…
These 48 work weeks must end for gender equality
The 48 hour work week is a standard that was established during a very different time: more than eight decades ago when male breadwinners and female homemakers worked in parallel to keep households ru…
The new agenda is ‘opportunity’ so let’s talk childcare and working mothers
Yesterday I sat next to a woman on a train who was loudly telling a colleague why, “Sandra think she’s coming back but she’s never coming back. She can’t even get childcare sor…
My solution to solving the unpaid work problem
I want to talk about how we could all benefit from getting a UBI. No, a UBI is not a contraceptive device or a nasty medical condition. You may have heard that it is currently being piloted in progres…
