Posts tagged "workplace gender equality agency"

With new research revealing Australia's gender pay gap has not improved this year, experts have a warning for employers who don't pay equally.

Women working together are a force to be reckoned with and will no longer accept second-rate treatment in any workplace, says The Executive Circle founder Shivani Gopal.

At every age group less than 50% of women were full-time in 2021, according to new data issued by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

Despite its economic value, CEO of the Australian Fashion Council Leila Naja Hibri says the fashion and textile industry is languishing through the labour shortage plaguing the country's workforce.

Sandberg penned Lean In in 2007, just three years after joining Facebook — now Meta — as chief operating officer. But this week, one of America's most powerful businesswomen called time at the social media giant.

Workplace flexibility has long been a holy grail for parents, particularly women, trying to juggle the competing demands of work and family.

The federal government has decided not to add superannuation to government-funded parental leave payments, despite its own review recommending the change.

Women remain undervalued and underrepresented in the Australian workforce, according to Mary Wooldridge, director of Australia’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

Research from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency points to a great divide in who can and can’t access paid parental leave.

The Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 will be subject to a review led by a team from the department of the prime minister and cabinet.

A recent report by the Grattan Institute revealed Australian women have suffered a “triple whammy” of job insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Woolworths and AstraZenica have been named among 17 organisations leading the way for workplace gender equality in Australia.