Standing in front of 20 career returners at our recent workshop I asked the question, “Think back to the role you did pre-career break; hands up if you think you would do the job better today.” There …
A woman’s quest to ditch the martyrdom of motherhood
How is this for a cliché? Working mother of children perpetually teetering on the verge of total overwhelm, with the equivalent of 3789 ‘tabs’ open in her mind at any given point, desperately trying t…
Female breadwinners STILL do more housework than their male partners
The latest Housing Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey (HILDA) results are in, and make clear female breadwinners are losing out across many levels in Australian households. According to th…
It’s only a ‘favour’: The trouble with speaking for free
I suspect it’s because too many of us are too nice and too modest. Why else is speaking for free something so many of us do? Why do we fail to treat speaking opportunities as a business transact…
The multi-billion dollar question of who cooks, cleans & cares
“You’re so lucky you have a brother,” a blonde-haired boy informed his younger sister cheerfully. “I’ll always have to do more chores than you.” “Why?” she asked with a scrunched up face. “Boys always…
Women undertake 72% of all unpaid work in Australia & the consequences are egregious
“Men won’t easily give up a system in which half the world’s population works for next to nothing,” New Zealand feminist economist and former politician Professor Marilyn Waring CNZM said.…
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…
How can women be equal at work when inequality at home still thrives (especially at Christmas)?
Most large organisations in Australia have set targets to minimise gender inequality. From pay transparency to flexible work, paid-parental leave top-ups to mentoring and unconscious bias programs. Bu…
‘I am doing everything & you need to do more’: A universal household dispute?
Last week I was typing away in a cafe not far from my home when a small group of mothers and their babies arrived and sat at the next table. They nursed their infants, sipped coffee and shared notes a…
As a nation, are we setting our girls up for a lifetime of earning less?
This is the reality for Australian girls in 2018: Boys earn more in pocket money than them from an early age and when those boys become men–according to the current gender pay gap–they wil…
