Category: Business

79% of sources quoted in 6 Australian newspapers are male

The latest research from the Women’s Leadership Institute Australia (WLIA) found just 21% of sources across a massive 6000 newsprint articles analyzed were female.

The study covered articles across Australia’s six key newspapers during a three week period in February 2016, including The Australian Financial Review, The Australian, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Herald Sun, and The Daily Telegraph.

The Australian Gender Equality Scorecard

The new data shows some encouraging signs – a continued downward trajectory of the gender pay gap, increased women’s representation in leadership and that more employers are taking action to address gender inequality. But progress is modest at best.

The Queen Bees in Business

Credit Suisse’s “Gender 3000: The Reward for Change” report, shows that global companies with more women in decision-making roles generate higher returns and better profits. The report identifies 27,000 senior managers at over 3000 companies around the world.

Significance of the gender divide in financial services in 2014

The value or importance of cultural change continues to be perceived in starkly di erent ways by male and female respondents.
For women, it is the primary issue to be addressed by the industry to encourage greater participation, consistent with the 2012 and 2010 surveys.
In responses to the open-ended questions at the end of this survey report, cultural change is often linked, or seen as a component part of, other policy measures such as workplace exibility or access to childcare.
“The culture needs to change to allow men to take up more exible work options — until workplace practice sees men as the norm in working exibly too, women will always remain at a disadvantage.”

Stereotypes about women’s work, men’s work threaten innovation

The Australian labour market is highly gender-segregated by industry and occupation, a pattern that has persisted over the past two decades.
This paper looks at the features of ‘female-dominated’ and ‘male-dominated’ organisations, while highlighting the unequal distribution of women and men across industries and occupations.
Data is sourced from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s (WGEA) dataset (2014-15 reporting period),1 and from the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) Labour Force Quarterly Survey (May 1995 and May 2015 periods).2