Page 3 - Libby Lyons News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

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 publishing details of a list of sexual harassment and bullying complaints at rival KPMG that showed the firm ...

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 has never seen fit to share her story. Jamuna Gurung co-founded Melbourne Institute Of Technology, b...

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 Agency, said that without commitment to gender equality from boards, there would be no sustainable ...