You’ll have to forgive me. I’ll do my best to be coherent. But you see, I’ve been on the sauce for about 24 hours. I popped the cork on that bottle of champagne we ladies have been keeping on ice for …
Co-writer of Crazy Rich Asians, Adele Lim quits amid gender pay dispute
The gender pay gap has plagued Hollywood for years, across not only acting but also directing, screen writing, costume design, music and the like. In recent times we’ve seen stars like Grey̵…
A man’s not a financial plan, but sadly neither is our super system
Carmen Hawker’s been working for ten years but has so far only amassed enough super for one year of her retirement. It’s a familiar story for millennial women, growing up with a superannua…
Myth-busting: The gender pay gap edition
Today (28th August) is [Un] Equal Pay Day. In this piece republished from BroadAgenda, Leonora Risse from RMIT University busts open some common myths surrounding the gender pay gap. Is the Gender Pa…
This government wants to blame ‘choices’ over discrimination. That won’t close the gender pay gap.
Tomorrow (28th August) is Equal Pay Day and a great opportunity to review our Government’s road map to gender equality. But as Kristine Ziwica finds, there’s a lot of ‘choices’…
Four traps men and women fall into at home & how to avoid them
The gender pay gap is diminishing according to a new report, however career interruptions are still considered “gendered and highly persistent”, writes Emma Willamson, from Monash Universi…
Why Australia needs to follow the UK & introduce a bill for flexible work as default
A few weeks ago, MP Helen Whately took an unprecedented step and introduced a flexible working bill into UK Parliament. Whately argued that the “40-hour, five-day working week made sense in an era of …
Voluntary super: a good way to increase women’s dependence on men
Voluntary super contributions would be a backward step for women and would increase the superannuation gap, writes Helen Hodgson, from Curtin University and Myra Hamilton, from UNSW in this piece rep…
The gender pay gap for the FIFA World Cup is US$370 million. It’s time for equity
As the Women’s World Cup begins, attention is being focused on the significant gender gap between the men’s and women’s competition, writes Keith Rathbone, from Macquarie University …
What do women really want from their employers? We need your help.
Can you help? Take the survey here. There are a lot of assumptions out there about what women in Australia look for in an employer. Some of these of course, are educated guesses. For instance, flexib…
