Australia ranks at number 46 (down from 36th win 2015). Global pay parity is now 170 years away.
He said, she said
Of nearly 100,000 distinct words used in the collected news articles, “he” was the 16th most frequently used. By comparison, the equivalent female pronoun – “she” – was the 66th most frequently used. “She” turned up 11,765 times, while “he” appeared more than 40,000 times.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women
Yet the clinical guidelines for managing cardiovascular disease are biased towards male patients, because women have been poorly represented in clinical trials for new therapies.
Nate Silver’s done some interesting analysis
How the US election would turn out if ONLY women or ONLY men voted. Wow.
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.
Women on track to make up 30 per cent of boards by 2018, parity by 2022
The target of 30 per cent “will only be achieved if the monthly new appointment rate of 38 per cent or above continues.”
Happy Equal Pay Day
It’s Equal Pay Day. It took us 69 extra days to catch up to the men.
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.”
Australian Human Rights Commission and Universities Australia launch national sexual assault survey
A nation-wide survey to assess the extent of sexual assault and sexual harassment of university students is launched today by the Australian Human Rights Commission and Universities Australia.
A representative sample of students from Australia’s 39 universities will be asked to participate in the survey, which is supported by the National Union of Students and the National Tertiary Education Union.
Mates over Merit: The Women in Media Report
“Progress towards equality for women in media is disappointingly slow,” Tracey Spicer, national convenor of Women in Media, said. “While there are more women than ever before working in the industry, they still dominate the lower paid, less powerful positions.”
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
Gina Rinehart one of the few women who can say that’s mine…
The report found performance pay and other additional remuneration plays a greater role in male-dominated industries, leading to higher gender pay gaps.
