Employers

When Rhonda Brighton-Hall wrote a blogpost urging CEOs to stop firing pregnant women, she received more than 300 emails from women who’d lost their jobs while pregnant or on maternity leave.

Sadhana Smiles is one of just two female CEOs in her sector in Victoria.

If you run a Google image search on the word ‘promotion’ you’ll see a lot of images like the above coming up.

It’s true.

Job ads that use gendered language will soon be targeted in a new pilot program to increase diversity.

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.

“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.

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.

Employment lawyer Emily Lupo regularly meets women who’ve been discriminated against because they’re pregnant .

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 should “be the norm for both men and women”.

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 Employers (AAGE).

There’s nothing like playing ‘spot the women’ when it comes to lists ranking the salaries of those in the mega-rich stratosphere.