Companies would have to reveal their gender pay gap under Labor
Latika Bourke for the Age reports: Companies with more than 1000 employees will be forced to publicly reveal their gender pay gap, named and shamed if they fail to comply,… Read more »
Category: Workforce Discrimination
Labor promises $400m super boost for women
Matt Coughlan for The New Daily writes: Women on maternity leave or juggling several low-paid jobs would be paid superannuation under a $400 million Labor plan to close the retirement… Read more »
Kids Don’t Damage Women’s Careers — Men Do
Jessica Valenti for Medium writes: For those of us uninterested in circus tricks, a bit of perspective: It’s not actually motherhood or kids that derail women’s careers and personal ambitions — it’s… Read more »
We need quotas: Liberal MP Julia Banks' stinging Parliamentary speech
Women’s Agenda reports: The Liberal Party needs quotas, and there are an equal number of ‘meritorious’ women in the real world as there are men, Julia Banks said during a… Read more »
Why Serena Williams was completely right
Tom Heenan at The New Daily writes: Serena Williams was right. She was far better behaved than many of her male counterparts in Sunday’s (AEST) US Open final against Naomi… Read more »
My wife works but she’s a great mother: Peter Dutton’s au pair comments so wrong
Angela Priestly for Women’s Agenda writes: [W]e couldn’t help but gasp at comments shared yesterday by Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton. Here’s what he had to say while talking to… Read more »
Julie Bishop calls out 'appalling behaviour' in politics, saying 'enough is enough'
Gareth Hutchen of the Guardian reports: The Liberal MP Julia Banks and the Liberal senator Lucy Gichuhi both claim they were subjected to bullying and intimidation from male colleagues during… Read more »
Female under-representation in higher courts won’t fix itself, study shows
Sol Dolor of NZ Lawyer writes: The study, Gender Ratio of Counsel Appearing in Higher Courts, was funded by the New Zealand Law Foundation and carried out by the New… Read more »
An inconvenient truth & the solution to 'having it all' we cannot ignore
Georgina Dent from Women’s Agenda writes: Technology has enabled work to bleed into every waking moment. Progress has meant women are educated and working. House prices and the cost of… Read more »
I wanted to make jokes about my destroyed career, but all I felt was grief
Yassmin Abdel-Magied writes: I wanted this eulogy to be funny. I wanted to bid farewell to a Formula One career that waited for all the lights to turn on but… Read more »