This Month
Frustration, confusion and Andrew Tate driving extremism in the young
Extremism experts warn that young men are becoming radicalised after looking to social media for simple answers to complicated economic and social questions.
- Gus McCubbing
I won’t be bullied into stipulating my pronouns. Even if I get fired
Why do my colleagues feel they must bring gender activism and their self-actualisation journeys into the office? Because I don’t.
- Judith Woods
July
Companies not as prepared against harassment as they think they are
Companies may think their workplace harassment policies are fit for purpose, but a survey shows many need to change to comply with new obligations.
- Staff reporter
The secret to joining an ASX 200 board, from two women who succeeded
Eleven women were appointed to chair S&P/ASX 200 companies between March and June, taking the total to a record 25.
- Sally Patten
Trust in government is the newest gender divide
Only 38 per cent of Australian women trust the federal government, compared with 54 per cent of men, an OECD study has found.
- Tom Burton
‘Not good enough’: Blackbird admits its gender pledge has stalled
Australia’s largest VC fund pledged to track data to support its rhetoric around investing in more women founders. Its first report shows it has gone backwards.
- Tess Bennett
- Exclusive
- Workplace culture
The client meeting from hell: how sexism still stalks the C-suite
Culture Amp research suggests that while all men in board positions believe their opinions are valued, 10 per cent of executive women don’t.
- Euan Black
BHP misses internal targets, docks incentives across global workforce
BHP’s top brass has cut employee incentives around the globe based on failures to hit internal performance targets.
- Brad Thompson
More law firms hit gender targets as partnership gap narrows
A record number of law firms now have more than 40 per cent female partnerships, but part-owner gender ratios contrast sharply with the engine room.
- Maxim Shanahan
June
Why WFH husbands don’t do the housework
There must be something about upbringing and environment that makes it so much harder for men to identify the chores that women see as crying out to be done.
- Lauren Shirreff
‘I fire people just as quickly as my male co-founders’
High-profile female entrepreneurs including Airwallex’s Lucy Liu have hit out at sexist attitudes, and male-led venture capital investors.
- Tess Bennett
- Overall Winner
- Women in Leadership
The ‘magic and mundane’ leadership style of Danielle Wood
The chairwoman of the Productivity Commission was selected as the overall winner for her contributions to economic policy and a preparedness to take an unpopular position in key national debates.
- Sally Patten
Mining’s push for gender diversity threatened by ‘Andrew Tate’ effect
A belief that women are being promoted based on gender, not ability, has permeated to middle management and board level, according to some female leaders.
- Harry Dempsey
Director urges equality advocates to leave their echo chamber
True gender equality benefits men as well as women, Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz says, but advocates need to convince boys of that or risk going backwards.
- Hannah Wootton
Men still winning the best-paid federal jobs
The Commonwealth public sector leads the private sector on gender equity, but women still earn $19,000 less on average.
- Tom Burton
Gender, sexuality reveal plan for boards should go further: advocates
A proposal that boards state the sexuality, age, Indigenous heritage and disabilities of directors does not go far enough, say advocacy groups and some directors.
- Sally Patten
- Exclusive
- Governance
ASX warned its race, sexuality push on boards is misguided
Company directors would be asked to disclose their sexuality, any Indigenous heritage and disabilities under controversial updates to diversity reporting rules.
- Patrick Durkin and Sally Patten
May
They battled blokey workplaces. Now these 33 women enforce the rules
Energy regulator Clare Savage and competition chief Gina Cass-Gottlieb are among 33 women leading Australia’s regulatory bodies, once the domain of male enforcers.
- Tom Burton
How fatherhood will change your body’s chemistry
Men’s physiology responds viscerally to parenthood, just as women’s does when caring for infants.
- Angela Saini
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Gender and family advocates will have to wait a bit longer
The issue with announcing a rise in wages for childcare workers is that there is a multi-enterprise bargaining process underway.
- Sally Patten
