Employers

From ‘hackathons’ to ‘design jams’, organisations love the idea of innovating. But are poor workplace routines stopping them in their tracks?

Flexible working has long been seen as a solid strategy for promoting women’s workforce participation in the corporate sector.

Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton called for a crackdown on the apparent “PC agenda” of Australian businesses this week.

Employers who don’t offer part-time work will never overcome gender inequality in the workforce, write Stephanie Reuss and Victoria Stuart from Beam Australia  Beam were the winners of our 2017 Entrepreneur of the Year Award category at the Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards.

Shemara Wikramanayake’s appointment as the new CEO of the country’s biggest investment bank, Macquarie Group, is significant for women in leadership.

Since #MeToo more women than ever are requesting raises and companies are reviewing their policies, enforcing “love contracts” for workplace relationships.

The New Zealand Government is prepared to force private companies to impose quotas to ensure equal representation of women on boards.

There’s a problem with the gender pay gap: The most broadly cited statistics and data used to calculate the difference between the earnings of women and men, are not quite right. 

Organisations and their leaders are well placed to challenge the systems, structures and cultures that have enabled sexual harassment and sexual assault to be perpetrated for so long.

NSW women are dominating employment rates, accounting for 62 percent of total employment growth, and exceeding their 47 percent share of the workforce.

At a time when many tech companies are flailing in their efforts to hire more women, Atlassian appears to be making at least a little progress.

Can the best CEOs for women be men? One ranking this week compiled by jobs site, Comparably suggested just that, but we’re not buying it.