Tag: Women

Stereotypes about the sexes are as old as the hills, and have little proof. If men and women acknowledge their strengths and weaknesses then leaders of any sex will get ahead.

More than 50 percent of female business owners are unable to pay themselves a wage after they start up, according to new research, which has led an industry body to call for female entrepreneurs to be given better access to government contracts.

Women taking a career break need to contribute $70 a week to superannuation to have enough, according to Lynette Argent, CEO of Million Dollar Woman.

While women are fighting for equality in the workplace and are taking on executive positions in the corporate world, there is a downside to their professional success and it comes in the form of serious health problems, once typically associated with men.

Australia’s business women don’t want gender quotas aimed at ensuring gender equality in the workplace, rather the overwhelming majority believe the mentoring of young women is the best way to achieve equality in Australian businesses.

The NSW Anti-Discrimination Board has granted an exception to the Anti-Discrimination act to Trivett Automotive which will enable the company to recruit females only.

While the pay gap continues to grow between men and women, the number of women appointed to ASX 200 boards is growing, with female directors of Australia’s top listed companies now close to 10 percent.

Telstra’s NSW Business Women’s Awards finalists have been announced, showing the amazing things NSW business women are capable of the same day it was announced that the gender pay gap is widening in Australia.

Gender equality in the workplace is even further off in 2010 than in 2009, with the wage gap widening over the last 12 months and a new study showing Australians are largely pessimistic about women ever receiving equal pay.

Women are the losers in the 2010 Federal election, with a ‘sharp drop’ in the number of women elected to the House of Representatives according to Claire Braund, Executive Director Women on Boards.