If you are seeking evidence that women in Australia are accelerating towards equality in the workplace with any great speed the latest figures from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) are sobe…
This employer has an overall pay gap in favour of women, but finds work still to do
It’s unusual to find an employer with a gender pay gap that swings against men but the City of Sydney is one such outlier that makes the cut, with an overall 7.5 per cent pay gap in favour of wo…
Chief executives earn 78 times more than workers. Are they worth it?
Did you know October 16 was Boss Appreciation Day? Neither did I. Is it a date to add to your calendar? Maybe not. Even in the US where it’s a recognised day, qualitative survey by Olivet Nazarene Uni…
Numbers rise but pay gap persists for women in architecture
There’s been a strong jump in the number of female architects, but the gender pay gap persists in the profession, along with a pattern of attrition that’s seeing women dropping out of the …
‘It’s revolutionary’: Sport Australia CEO Kate Palmer on the interest in women’s sport
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…
