Fifteen years ago Kate Palmer was speaking at a conference when she made a suggestion that people stop talking about ‘women’s sport’ and simply talk about sport. It was met by silence and then critici…
Property won’t fix the gender pay gap
Women are likely to become wealthier from owning more Australian property over the next five years but don’t expect this to help close the gender pay gap. The number of women buying property to live i…
CEOs earning exorbitant salaries is one thing. How those organisations treat staff & operate is another
This week the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) released its annual report exploring CEO pay in top listed companies. We learned that CEO pay is at a record high, that the top 10 p…
The problem with anything that increases ‘the motherhood penalty’
I get it. I really do. Where is the utility in giving a family with a household income in excess of $350K any subsidy for their children to attend childcare? Is this entitlement gone mad? How greedy t…
Why the cost of work remains too high for women (& tax cuts don’t help)
Need convincing about the value of a women’s budget statement? It’s hard to go past new evidence presented to the Senate examining the combined impact of the government’s proposed ta…
Zero women on Forbes’ 100 highest paid athletes in the world
For the first time no women are on Forbes’ 100 highest paid athletes in the world. That means that in 2017, 100 of the top 100 paid athletes in the world were men and none were women. Forbes unv…
Why the move towards transparency will help shrink the pay gap
A shift is underway when it comes to the gender pay gap in Australia: opaque is on the out and transparency is creeping in. This week two leading professional services firms, Ernst & Young and PwC…
Confession: I hate International Women’s Day
Last year I confessed to not liking International Women’s Day. I said I found it overwhelmingly underwhelming. This year I’m afraid to report my distaste is now hovering somewhere between seething res…
The Glass Ceiling Index: Where are the best & worst places to be a working woman?
According to The Economist’s 2018 glass-ceiling index, a yearly assessment of where women have the best and worst chances of equal treatment at work in countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-op…
Men taking salary cuts doesn’t solve the pay gap
“At easyJet we are absolutely committed to giving equal pay and equal opportunity for women and men. I want that to apply to everybody at easyJet and to show my personal commitment I have asked the bo…
