| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.10.2024 | The Talent Tug-of-War: Navigating Australia’s Workforce Challenges | Australia's job market is a battlefield. Employers are grappling with a severe talent shortage. The latest report from Jobs and Skills Australia lays bare the stark reality: 303 occupations are struggling to find workers. The top 20 list re... |
| 14.10.2024 | Baseline flexibility won’t futureproof tech businesses from fierce competition for talent | From Amazon to the NSW state government, many local and global organisations are introducing mandates for employees to return to the office. While these attention-grabbing headlines are resurfacing heated debates about whether employees sho... |
| 14.10.2024 | Revealed: Australia’s top 20 occupational shortages for 2024 | Source: AAP Image/ Darren England article-article-body
Australia’s most significant skills shortages have been revealed, showing precisely where employers are struggling to find talent in 2024.
Jobs and Skills Australia released the annual ... |
| 12.08.2024 | Paul Fletcher points to women telco leaders when asked about gender disparity in tech | Source: TechLeaders article-article-body
Shadow Minister for Science, Arts, Government Services and the Digital Economy Paul Fletcher has highlighted the positions of two women technology leaders in response to a question on the closure of ... |
| 22.03.2024 | Businesses that don’t meet gender targets may soon be ineligible for government contracts | Source: Adobe Stock. article-article-body
The Australian government wants to make sure its contracts – worth almost $75 billion annually – don’t just deliver taxpayers value for money, but also promote gender equity.
Under proposed procurem... |
| 19.03.2024 | Labor’s ‘Working for Women’ strategy to involve more women in decision-making | Minister for Women, Finance and the Public Service Katy Gallagher. Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas article-article-body
A new five-year action plan under Labor’s national ‘Working for Women’ strategy offers a whole-of-government roadmap for g... |
| 07.03.2024 | Beyond International Women’s Day: How businesses can implement equality measures | Yasinta Widjojo of Pin Payments. Source: Supplied. article-article-body
Every International Women’s Day (IWD), workplaces around the world present female employees with cupcakes, a tokenistic campaign, and a plethora of social media posts o... |
| 06.03.2024 | A long way from equity and equality: Financy Women’s Index reports | The latest findings from the Financy Women’s Index (FWX) reveal it’s a case of one step forward, two steps back in the journey towards economic equality for Australian women.
Despite advancements in certain areas, the overall FWX score fell... |
| 06.03.2024 | Former McKinsey partner Simon Kennedy set for parliament | Profile McKinsey & Company
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Former McKinsey & Company partner Simon Kennedy has won a golden ticket to federal parliament after earning pre-selection for the safe Liberal seat of Cook, vacated by former PM Scott M... |
| 28.02.2024 | Seafolly among women-centric brands to stand out in gender pay gap data | A Seafolly advertisement. Source: Facebook/ Seafolly article-article-body
The Seafolly brand is synonymous with women’s swimwear, but new data shows the Australian-born label has one of the most significant gender pay gaps in the local fash... |
| 27.02.2024 | Why SafetyCulture’s gender pay gap numbers are missing | SafetyCulture CEO Luke Anear. Source: supplied article-article-body
When it comes to the new Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) data, the Australian startup scene is a mixed bag. Some of the major players are well below the national median (14.5... |
| 27.02.2024 | Construction industry’s 31.8% gender pay gap highlights “urgent need to change” | New housing construction is seen at Schofields, north west of Sydney, Thursday, November 10, 2022. Source: AAP Image/ Bianca De Marchi article-article-body
The gender imbalance in Australia’s construction sector shows an “urgent need to cha... |
| 03.10.2023 | Workplace Diversity in Australia: What Can Australian IT Do to Inspire Better Diversity? | Australia is in a position where it could have a highly diverse IT sector across all lines — gender, sexuality, ethnicity, physical ability and age. Currently, however, it has struggled to convert its significantly diverse culture into dive... |
| 07.03.2023 | How to support women-led businesses (and why it matters) | As a woman, it is incredibly important for me to work for a business that role models to future generations of women what it looks like to wear the title of Founder and CEO, writes Charlotte Rush, head of product at Inventium.
I am part of ... |
| 26.01.2023 | “So, Uhhh . . . How Much Do You Earn? (Why Knowing Others’ Salary Matters) | Sharing salary informationgetty |
| 13.12.2022 | Australia’s gender pay gap is stuck at 22.8%, and experts say employers will end up suffering | Source: Unsplash/CoWomen.
Australia’s progress on closing the gender pay gap has stalled.
Across the 2021-22 financial year, women earned $26,596 less than men on average, according to the latest annual data released this morning by the Wor... |
| 04.10.2022 | How mentoring and supporting women in the workplace can help defeat “dinosaur-age” attitudes | Source: Getty Images.
Behind every well-paid man is a woman doing the same work, for less money. Despite a visible uptick in global feminism, the gender pay gap in Australia recently worsened to 14.1%, an increase of 0.3% over the last six ... |
| 15.08.2022 | Personality tests: What can and can’t employers ask? | Personality tests are a common part of job applications, but as Dominique Allen, associate professor at Monash University writes, not all questions are lawful and it comes down to how the gathered information is used.
You might have heard o... |
| 20.06.2022 | Why moving from career feminism to care feminism will help reshape Australia’s economy | DETAIL FROM THE COVER FROM LEANING OUT BY KRISTINE ZIWICA (IMAGE: HARDIE GRANT)
This article is an extract from Leaning Out by Kristine Ziwica which will be released in September as part of The Crikey Read series.
On November 11, 2021, Sam ... |
| 13.04.2022 | PwC wage transparency push could improve women’s compensation, experts say | PwC Australia announced on Tuesday it would disclose its pay ranges for staff for the 2023 financial year, in a move it said would help it retain and attract staff in a competitive job market.
PwC Australia announced on Tuesday it would dis... |
| 11.02.2022 | Weekly Wrap #81: The 4 P's - People, Politics, Power, Peloton | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| 08.09.2021 | Australia is trailing the developed world on parental leave. Linktree wants to change that with gender-neutral policies. | Linktree says its new gender-neutral parental leave policy is part of a push to promote gender equity through workplace policies.
It follows a report from the Grattan Institute that found Australia currently has one of the least generous pa... |
| 27.05.2021 | 73 Percent of Companies With Gender-Equality Practices Increased Profitability and Productivity in 2021. Here's Why. | May 27, 2021 5 min read
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Gender equality in the workforce is critical to the opportunity, growth and success of all companies. Companies that use equitable hiring and pay practic... |
| 16.04.2021 | Morrison government to scrap plans to delay super rise, in new gender-focused approach to super | Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and the Digital Economy, Minister for Women’s Economic Security Jane Hume. Source: AAP/Mick Tsikas.
The Morrison government is expected to abandon plans to overturn the legislated superannuati... |
| 26.11.2020 | The gender pay gap sits at 20.1% — and not enough is being done to close it | Source: Getty Images.
Not enough action is being taken to address gender pay gaps, according to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA)’s latest Gender Equality Scorecard, based on reports from almost 5,000 employers covering 4.3 millio... |
| 18.09.2020 | ST BARBARA LIMITED
St Barbara : 2020 Sustainability Report | ASX Release/ 18 September 2020
2020 Sustainability Report
The attached Sustainability Report presents the environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of St Barbara Ltd and its controlled entities (the 'Group') for the 2020 financ... |
| 14.09.2020 | People assumed it was a ‘lifestyle decision’ when I started my business: It’s time to ditch myths about female entrepreneurship | Lauren Quaintance is the co-founder of Storyation. Source: Women's Agenda.
When I launched a business, almost everyone I spoke with — men and women alike — assumed it was a lifestyle decision.
Sure, I’d left a demanding executive role in a ... |
| 10.08.2020 | We need to help unemployed postgraduates start businesses, says CSIRO chief scientist Cathy Foley | CSIRO chief scientist Cathy Foley. Source: YouTube.
Universities and other research organisations in Australia have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In May, a group led by Australia’s chief scientist Alan Finkel forecasted severe imp... |
| 09.03.2020 | Flexible work helps close the gender gap — and gives small business the edge | Beam Australia co-founders and co-CEOs Stephanie Reuss and Victoria Stuart.
When it comes to closing the gender gap in Australian business, there are two key things we need to do: create pay equity and get more women into senior leadership ... |
| 08.03.2020 | In Pay Gap Between Women and Men, Britain Keeps Score
In Pay Gap Between Women and Men, Britain Keeps Score | (Bloomberg) -- The U.K. is the biggest country yet to zoom in on the explosive topic of the pay gap between women and men. For the third year, employers with 250 or more workers in Britain had been set to report “raw” wage data via mandator... |
| 13.03.2018 | What we need from Australia’s new ambassador for women in science | Computer scientist and Computing Education Specialist Dr Nicky Ringland meets with Burwood Girls students. Source: Nicky Ringland.
By Amy L Heffernan, University of Melbourne; Kate Umbers, Western Sydney University, and Sanam Mustafa, Unive... |
| 07.03.2018 | Women in Tech on International Women’s Day | On International Women’s Day, Beth Caniglia asks what the current state of play is for women in tech …
It’s been an interesting 12 months across the gender politics spectrum. There have been marches and protests. The powerful #timesup and #... |
| 28.02.2018 | Why I’m boycotting events with no female speakers | Adore Beauty founder Kate Morris. Source: Supplied.
It’s 2018, and despite all the momentum of #MeToo and #TimesUp, women are still struggling to be heard.
I’ve noticed a rash of “manels” (all-male panels) lately at retail and e-commerce ev... |
| 07.09.2017 | Gender pay gap should be a social & economic priority, says WGEA | Two Australian government science agencies and two universities are the latest entities to join a national program focused on improving gender equity in Australian research organisations. |
| 26.07.2017 | More Australian women are becoming game developers, but there’s a long way to go | Source: Shutterstock
By Brooke Maggs, Deakin University
Recent data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows a rise in the number of women working in the Australian games industry. In 2011-2012, only 8.7% of game developers identified... |
| 11.07.2017 | What we miss when we focus on the gender pay gap | By Petrina Coventry, University of Adelaide.
The gender pay gap currently stands at 23% in Australia, but this statistic alone does not capture the full problem. If you don’t have a job, the opportunity to work enough hours, or good working... |
| 03.03.2017 | Top tier female managers earn $93,000 less than their male peers: Report | A report released today by Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre in collaboration with the Workplace Gender Equality Agency reveals top tier female managers in Australian organisations earn on average $93,000, or 26.5%, less per year compared to... |
| 20.01.2017 | Could a universal basic income help those heaving countless of unpaid hours into startups? | I want to talk about how we could all benefit from getting a UBI. No, a UBI is not a contraceptive device or a nasty medical condition.
You may have heard that it is currently being piloted in progressive western democracies including Finla... |
| 14.12.2016 | “I got the balance wrong”: The Footy Show’s James Brayshaw on the consequences of prioritising work over all else | By Georgia Dent
“I’ve got to get better at being a dad, and a partner, being around a bit more, not being stressed and knackered when I am,” he said.
“That’s the part of my life I’ve got horribly wrong for too long. That’s priority number o... |
| 08.03.2016 | Female senior managers paid $100,000 less than their male counterparts: study | Rebecca Cassells, Curtin University; Alan Duncan, Curtin University, and Rachel Ong, Curtin University
Women are paid less on average than men at a senior management level and have less representation on boards, particularly among male-domi... |
| 23.02.2016 | These two organisations are joining forces to inspire the next generation of female entrepreneur superheroes | Two not-for-profits are joining forces for an event backed by Microsoft that will aim to empower young girls with the various possibilities of the tech world.
Tech Girls Movement and Diverse City Careers will be holding the Superhero Daught... |
| 25.11.2015 | Women get a much needed boost in research funding gender equity plan | Women make up 44% of Australian academics, but just 24% of professors. One of the contributing factors for this disparity is that there are fewer women applying for research grants than men, even though women are just as successful at winni... |
| 09.10.2015 | FlexCareers helps female professionals get back to work after pregnant pause | FlexCareers wants to help women find their way back into work after maternity leave.
The startup has launched a jobs platform that aims to link female professionals, those between the ages of 20 and 60 with a tertiary degree, with an increa... |
| 12.06.2015 | Are female entrepreneurs set up to fail? | It’s no secret that men and women are treated differently. Studies show that in the classroom, teachers acknowledge and reward boys more, while in the workplace, males are promoted 15% more than women (as well as that pesky 18.8% pay gap).
... |
| 16.04.2015 | Getting in early to avoid gender stereotyping careers | By pre-school children are already thinking about the career they will have when they grow up. It is also at this early stage that they tend to rule out jobs that do not fit with their gender.
Four-year-olds have shown a strong gender bias ... |
| 08.01.2015 | Quotas on the nose: that’s the view from male Australian CEOs | Tuesday’s Australian Financial Review Chanticleer survey of 33 largely male “captains of industry” reveals that quotas to improve the numbers of women in senior management positions are still overwhelmingly viewed as at best unnecessary, an... |
| 05.09.2014 | Equal Pay Day: how can your business bridge the gender pay gap? | Australian small businesses are being urged to look at their payroll data today, as national Equal Pay Day calls into focus the pay disparity between men and women in Australia.
Equal Pay Day is celebrated in August each year by the Austral... |
