A woman ‘destroyed’ in big win for Seven

The woman who has caused such embarrassment to the board, the CEO, to the reputation of the entire company – a woman who publicly took on one of the most powerful boys clubs in business – was yesterday ordered to pay back legal costs to Seven after she lost her case against her former employer.

In the words of one commentator, Harrison’s been “obliterated”, another said Seven “destroyed” their former employee, who had dared to reveal she’d had an extra-marital affair with CEO Tim Worner. The journalist adds that “no company would want to go through what Seven went through”.

Harrison hit back at the legal system yesterday, alongside her former employer, saying that “too often, our legal system and courts are used by one party to exhaust the other, when one can’t afford the fight.”

https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/eds-blog/woman-destroyed-big-win-seven/

Mission impossible? Managing the 10-week school holiday gap with a busy career –

For most working parents with the average 4 weeks of annual leave, there is a significant shortfall in time available to care for the kids during the holidays. It’s often referred to as ‘juggling work and caring responsibilities’; but a more accurate description is mission impossible.

And it’s a mission impossible that sees many chose (or feel forced) to instead drop out of the workforce.

Many families rely on school care and vacation care arrangements to plug the gap of 10-15 weeks of school holidays with only 4 weeks leave.

Children over the age of 12 are not eligible for these care arrangements. At age 12 (usually around Year 7 and older) many are unsupervised either at home or elsewhere, according to 2012 data from the Australian Institute of Family Studies.

https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/mission-impossible-managing-10-week-school-holiday-gap-busy-career/

Zero Women Were Elected To The Leadership Of Liberal Student Body

The new president of the Australian Liberal Students’ Federation (ALSF) told its annual general meeting “this is an executive that represents everyone” shortly after the room elected 11 men and no women to the organisation’s executive body.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/lanesainty/no-women-elected-at-peak-liberal-students-group-agm?utm_term=.ks3Qdxz46g#.jl7qxrMNO1

What we miss when we focus on the gender wage gap

The latest data show 9.4% of the female workforce had insufficient hours of work, compared to just 5.7% of the male workforce.

Around 400,000 women of working age are unemployed in Australia and 71.6% of all part-time employees are women.

And since women of all working ages in Australia have attained higher qualifications than men, we are not maximising the potential of our workforce. There is now plenty of research showing that fully utilising the female workforce leads to higher economic growth.

https://theconversation.com/what-we-miss-when-we-focus-on-the-gender-wage-gap-80536

Apparently, the ’embrace of diversity’ is everywhere in corporates. You just can’t see it

The Social Services minister told The Australian that “anyone who has actually visited Australian business and professional organisations can see that the embrace of diversity is on plain display.”

The Liberal MP made the comments while rejecting recommendations by the Australian Human Rights Commission that organisations explore aspirational targets and the possibility of further data collection on the diversity of employees.

If the embrace of diversity was truly everywhere, we’d see it in the leadership teams across large employers. We’d see it on the boards of listed entities, in the names and pictures of those senior leaders and decision-makers featured in the business press and across executive positions in organisations.

While diversity is starting to be recognised as beneficial by smart business leaders, Porter’s assessment of it being “embraced” across the board, is nothing but a vast and potentially damaging overstatement.

https://womensagenda.com.au/uncategorised/apparently-embrace-diversity-everywhere-corporates-just-cant-see/

No shock here: Gender pay gap triples under Trump

The gender pay gap in the White House has widened significantly in the first few months of Donald Trump’s presidency.

According to a recent report by the American Enterprise Institute, the pay gap between male and female White House employees has more than tripled since the last year of Obama’s administration. At that point, the statistics showed an 11 per cent margin. Under Trump, the gap has widened to 37 per cent ($US42,350).

Even more frustratingly, the White House GPG is now more than double the national one. With female staffers on average earning $US72,650 while their male counterparts rake in $US115,000.

Only 6 of the top 23, highest paid White House staff are women and a whopping three quarters of the top 101 highest paid positions are held by men. Female staffers also comprise 59% of the lowest three salary brackets.

https://womensagenda.com.au/uncategorised/no-shock-gender-pay-gap-triples-trump/

Blink and you’ll miss the ‘progress’ for women in law

Just one third of new partners at Australia’s largest law firms are female, according to analysis in the legal section of the Australian Financial Review today.

In an industry that’s now 50.1% female – according to a separate report in the NSW Law Society Journal – that’s simply not good enough.

In 2014, an InfoTrack/Jander Dean study found 75% of respondents believe female lawyers who take a career break are less likely to make partner. InfoTrack CEO Stephen Wood said at the time that parental leave can be seen as the “kiss of death” for those with partnership aspirations.

It’s clear women still come up against hurdles when it comes to family and caring responsibilities. A cultural shift is long overdue.

https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/eds-blog/blink-youll-miss-progress-women-law/

One in four Australian men do no housework: 2016 census

In the 2016 Census, the results of which were released this week, it was revealed that one in four Australian men did no domestic work in the week prior. Nothing. Nada. Not a solitary hour.

We have known for a long time that women do more unpaid work than men. This is uniform around the world.

Despite the increase in women’s paid work, the division of the unpaid work – the cooking, the cleaning, the child-rearing – hasn’t budged.

But one in four men doing nothing? And admitting to doing nothing? That surprised me.

The way any couple or family approach domestic work is, quite obviously, a personal issue. But whichever way you cut it, a man doing nothing – no cooking, no cleaning, no child-rearing, no groceries – is ludicrous.

https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/eds-blog/one-in-four-australian-men-do-no-housework/

The curious case of Christine Holgate being paid less Ahmed Fahour

She is a talented senior executive with a proven ability to drive success. The fact her ego obviously isn’t bolstered by pay only accentuates her personal integrity.

But the fact her predecessor can walk out the door with the equivalent of four (and a bit) years of her entire annual salary is hard to take.

It is living proof of the pay gap in action. She is doing exactly the same job for a quarter of the salary.

https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/christine-holgate-being-paid-less-ahmed-fahour/