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…
Why I’m optimistic that Australia’s equal pay reckoning is coming
Elsewhere in the world, women are going back to the barricades in pursuit of equal pay in spectacular fashion. Yet here in Australia, the 50th anniversary of the first major national equal pay case re…
Note to the Liberal Party’s Sachin Joshi: Here’s why medicine’s gender pay gap ACTUALLY exists
Another day, another male ‘expert’ telling female doctors why the gender pay gap exists in medicine. Usually it’s because we work fewer hours, undervalue ourselves by charging patients reasonabl…
Voters want action on women’s issues, but will our leaders listen?
More than half of Australians feel women’s issues are recurrently sidelined by the government, according to a new poll released this week. In a survey commissioned by independent lobby group Wo…
Why are there still so few women investing in stocks?
Need a coffee break but want to look busy? Take part in our latest survey exploring women’s investment habits and possible barriers getting in the way. A report from this research will be publis…
U.S women’s soccer team launch crusade for equal pay
The U.S Women’s Soccer team aren’t giving up their pursuit for equal pay without 100% commitment. It started in 2016, when five members of the team filed a complaint with the Equal Employm…
Women at least 12 years off financial equality in Australia
The latest Women’s Index is out and while Bianca Hartge-Hazelman would love to report that the push for economic equality is getting easier, the truth is anything but. She shares more from the finding…
