Women less likely to get promoted than men

Substantial differences identified in feedback provided to women and men point to the perceived riskiness of female appointments. Women are told more frequently than men that they need to display “more confidence” and have “more experience” to be promoted.

Women with children the biggest losers from divorce

This report explores the financial impact of divorce in Australia… It look sat patterns of divorce in Australia, across individuals and families, and the financial impact of divorce on home ownership, employment status and household income and assets, including superannuation and debt. It also looks at the effect of divorce on spending on children and education outcomes.

I am woman hear me……. hmmm

There is not a single female-fronted act on the Top 10.Triple J’s annual listener poll of the best albums of the year. Plus opportunities for women in music discussed by Music Victoria.

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.

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

See Jane? Or don’t see Jane.. not in the movies anyway

From 2006 to 2009, not one female character was depicted in G-rated family films in the field of medical science, as a business leader, in law, or politics. In these films, 80.5% of all working characters are male and 19.5% are female, which is a contrast to real world statistics, where women comprise 50% of the workforce.