Historic. Epic. The fight of the century. The biggest fleece of all time. A freakshow. A superfight. A cross-code money-spinning abomination. These are just a few of the labels being attached to a box…
Be open, own your brilliance & exit auto-pilot: How to get the career you really want
After seeing Amy Cuddy a few weeks back I remembered the power of a great speaker. Her presentation reminded me how words delivered by another person really can change your life. A compelling speech c…
A memo to the “men who prefer women not to work”: It’s unconscionable & archaic
“Mothers who don’t really need the money shouldn’t work”. “A working mother can establish as good a relationship with her children as a mother who doesn’t work for pay.” “It is…
The women of the BBC demand action on the pay gap.
The women of the BBC now have proof of what they had suspected: they are paid vastly less than their male colleagues. It was confirmed when the public broadcaster released the salaries of its top 96 s…
The curious case of a female CEO being paid far less than the man before her
You have probably read that Australia Post has appointed a female CEO to the helm for the first time. Blackmores CEO, Christine Holgate, will replace the outgoing Ahmed Fahour to run the national post…
Closing the gender pay gap is a boon for productivity.
Need another reason to tackle the gender pay gap? New research by Tom Kennedy, University of New England; Abbas Valadkhani, Swinburne University of Technology; Alison Sheridan, University of New Engla…
Further proof the pay gap is not a myth.
Whichever way you cut the ATO’s most recent release of data relating to taxable income, the gap between what men and women earn is stark. The data makes it patently obvious that the gender ̶…
Iceland to make companies prove they pay men and women equally.
Oh Iceland! The envy is almost too much to bear. Not content with being ranked 1st in the world as the most gender equal country in the world and unwilling to accept a seven percent pay gap. Nope, the…
Why the gap in numbers when it comes to the pay gap?
Australia seems to lack consistency when it comes to reporting the difference between what men and women are paid – that is, the gender pay gap. Media headlines and press releases are written for maxi…
Women cricketers in Australia just got a very big pay rise.
Cricket Australia has tabled a ground-breaking remuneration and benefits proposal to the nation’s professional cricketers which will deliver female players an immediate pay increase of 125%. “We…
