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Vast amounts of money and marketing have gone into promoting the idea that women need to join the STEM workforce. But evidence suggests maybe not.

Pressure builds on PwC, EY to reveal staff complaint statistics Save Share Pressure is growing on big four consultancies PwC and EY to emulate rival Deloitte by voluntarily disclosing the number of workplace investigations conducted each year, after details of KPMG’s complaints catalogue were revealed. Deloitte on Wednesday said the firm had investigated roughly 15 workplace conduct cases annually over the past three years. The disclosure followed The Australian Financial Review publishin...

Why so many Rich Women are media-shy Mar 11, 2021 – 12.00am Share At least seven of the business founders on 2021’s Financial Review Rich Women List have rarely or never appeared in the media, leaving it to their male partners to maintain a public profile. In a symptom of what RMIT economics professor Leonora Risse called “a society still coming to grips with embracing successful females”, there is even one self-made billionaire – 64-year-old TPG Telecom co-founder Vicky Teoh – who ...

Opposition leader Anthony Albanese says the huge gender pay gap in Australia is "not good enough" and more transparency and accountability is needed.

Just four ASX20 companies near 50pc women in management Share Women account for just over a third of all managers in major companies, barely changed over 12 months, raising fears that “gender fatigue” is setting in among the top echelons of corporate Australia. The paucity of women in leadership roles is also likely to limit the number of women promoted to chief executive in the coming years and hinder company performance, experts said. Libby Lyons, director of the Workplace Gender Equality...

Opposition’s promise comes as government faces continued pressure over its handling of rape allegations <br>

‘40:40:20’: Firms respond to gender equality citation By Emma Ryan|02 March 2021 The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has revealed its new WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (EOCGE) citation holders, with three law firms offering their take on the recognition. The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) unveiled its list of 2020-22 WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (EOCGE) citation holders last week, which recognises employers that commit to promoting gender ...

Australia’s gender pay gap has dropped to 13.4%, marking a small decline in the gap between men and women’s full-time earnings over the last six months.

The national gender pay gap has narrowed slightly to 13.4% for full-time employees, a decline of 0.6 percentage points over the past six months, the federal Workplace Gender Equality Agency announced on Thursday. The figure has been calculated from the latest average weekly earnings data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The gender pay gap equates to a $242.20-a-week difference on average between the amount women and men make. The...

Gender pay gap improves as more men take on low-paid work Feb 25, 2021 – 9.32pm Share Australian women working full-time are paid on average $242.20 a week less than men - a gap that has improved, albeit slowly and mostly due to labour market shifts rather than progress on equality. Women working full-time earned on average $1562 in a week, while male full-time workers were paid $1804.20, data from the federal government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency shows. If you’re an Australian wo...