The Workplace Gender Equality Agency has announced the 2019-2020 Employers of Choice for Gender Equality (EOCGE), naming 119 organisation who have received the citation, down from 144 last year. The 1…
Women in tech are sharing their salaries in an open spreadsheet
Lizzie Kardon, the Head of Content and Engagement at WebPress hosting company Pagely, started a Google Spreadsheet for women in tech to open up the channels for discussion around salary and pay for wo…
Gender pay gap is at its most extreme for women in their 50s
New research released by UK based organisation Rest Less has revealed that the gender pay gap at its most extreme for women in their 50s– a concerning statistic given people now work longer than…
Sorry, what?? Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says the gender pay gap is “closed”
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 …
