Victorian university graduates also lag the national average on pay,with medium-term graduates from the University of Melbourne among the lowest-paid in Australia.
Take a look at Australia’s childcare mess. And we wonder why there’s a lack of women in executive roles.
Ash Montebello stopped receiving shifts after giving her employer a doctor’s letter saying she needed to be on light duties after a pregnancy haemorrhage.
At the current rate of progression,data trends suggest it will take 100 years for women to reach 40 per cent of ASX 300 chief executive positions.
We miss out on scientific discoveries,good policy and astute business decisions when the talents of our best people are not thrown at the task with equal gusto.
The Albanese government is examining the union movement’s proposal for industry-wide bargaining as a tool to help close the gender pay gap.
The federal government promises to place gender equality “at the heart” of pay legislation amid warnings progress on closing the pay gap has stalled.
News that the final tranche of income tax cuts will increase gender inequity and cost $240 billion over a decade adds to pressure already mounting on Labor to ditch the tax reforms.
The latest data shows Western Australia has the biggest pay gap and while more women are in the workforce,they’re going into lower-paid jobs.
When you hear through office gossip that someone else in your role would have been paid more it’s time to get your facts straight,Dr Kirstin Ferguson says.
Having more women in our parliaments is key to ensuring that other gender equality gaps are addressed. In Australia,in 2022,there is plenty of room for improvement.