Gender equality seems to be the topic on everyone’s lips – yet despite an increase in awareness and such extensive media coverage, it’s something that many businesses still struggle to achieve. As women in leadership roles of male dominated businesses, what can we do to inspire an internal culture shift? When I first stepped into […]
Female founders are outnumbered three to one in Australia’s startup ecosystem because they often lack the support of a strong network of ‘door openers’, according to Fiona Boyd, the CEO of Heads Over Heels. She explained that Head Over Heels, an Australian not-for-profit founded in 2010, provides female entrepreneurs with a “powerful platform” to scale – and […]
Working with corporate and executive teams around Australia, we’ve noticed an interesting trend: increasing talk of ‘Boys Club’ culture’. With the multitude of media reports of late exposing sexism and harassment within Uber’s executive teams, leaders have reasons to examine their own company culture for anything untoward. Minor forms of exclusion can bubble beneath a […]
The most comprehensive look at gender equality in Australia’s work environment has highlighted a gender bias in the nation’s leadership pipeline.
Over 75 per cent of young women have been the subject of sexist comments and 49 per cent have said that sexism is a factor influencing their career paths, according to a major new Auspoll survey commissioned by child rights organisation Plan International Australia.
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