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 …
The mind boggling $300 million pay gap in Hollywood between male & female actors
It seems that not even beauty can close the gender pay gap. Female beauty, that is. For fellows though, it’s a vastly different story. Especially if you’re a leading man like George Clooney, Dwayne “…
If women from the ‘lucky’ generation face homelessness what can young women expect?
A new Grattan Institute Report shows that young Australians could well be the first generation in memory to have lower living standards than their parents’ generation. Older Australians today spend mo…
Secret deodorant donates $529,000 to US women’s soccer team in push for equal pay
Secret, a sponsor of the US Women’s National Soccer team, is publicly supporting the World Cup winning team’s ongoing crusade for equal pay. The deodorant brand has announced a $529,000 donation to th…
How equal pay for women in sport went mainstream
The moment the US team secured their fourth World Cup title will be remembered in years to come for the crowd’s response as much as the team’s proficiency on the pitch. As the siren signalled the end …
Want to negotiate a $60k pay rise? There’s an app for that
Like many Australian kids who grew up in the 80s, Meggie Palmer spent the first two decades of her life believing what she’d been told about girls and women being able to do anything. That bubble was …
Kelly O’Dwyer responds to WEL’s election scorecard: ‘It’s not independent & ignores our achievements’
On Monday the Women’s Electoral Lobby released a Federal Election Scorecard ranking the three major political parties on their commitment to women against 12 key policy areas. Labor earned 11 ti…
Liberal candidate says ‘main cause’ of pay gap is women lacking the business skills to earn more
According to a recent poll of 1065 voters, commissioned by independent lobby group WomenVote, 71 per cent of Australians believe the government should be doing more to address the gender pay gap. It&#…
No, I can’t be your unpaid mentor.
We all agree that women should be paid fairly for their work, don’t we? We all agree that the gender pay gap is appalling and needs to be fixed. We are outraged that female dominated industries and pr…
Stop assuming having a baby means a woman only wants a part-time job
But she had a baby…. There are few expressions, in a work-related context, as loaded as this. ‘Having a baby’ is used so often to justify myriad assumptions that are not always accurate. Having a baby…
