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Shemara Wikramanayake, CEO of Macquarie Group, Lisa Annese, CEO of CEW, Vicki Brady, CEO of Telstra, and Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, president of Chief Executive Women, at the CEW 40th Anniversary dinner in Sydney.

Wikramanayake: Diversity is not woke, it’s smart business

Corporate leaders shared stories of success and failure at a dinner honouring the 40th anniversary of Chief Executive Women.

Maybe you thought hard work and competence would speak for themselves. They don’t.

The $1m cost of not asking for a pay rise

Hundreds of thousands – even millions – of dollars quietly disappear over the course of a career. It’s a financial catastrophe in slow motion.

Joel Cahill works part time and is primary carer to his two children.

Meet the stay-at-home dads whose wives are killing it at work

Outside parental leave, few men become the primary carer for school-age children. But these fathers have, allowing their partners to continue their careers.

Men just have more experience capital than women, McKinsey reckons.

McKinsey solves the gender pay gap this International Women’s Day

Once women have earned their own equality, Elizabeth Arden will also help them celebrate with free lipstick applications.

If we close these persistent gender gaps in workforce participation and leadership, our economy — and our country — will be stronger and more competitive.

The secret to a strong economy is women

I’ve seen first-hand that when you tap the talents of the whole population you draw from the very best available. The more capable people we have, the better.

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Lisa Annese has spent most of her career advocating for women and minority groups.

Job appointments have never been purely merit-based: CEW chief

If we give too much air time to DEI’s detractors, people may begin to believe such programs are unwarranted, says Chief Executive Women CEO Lisa Annese.

How well paid are you compared with others in your firm (or industry)?

Try our quiz to see how your income measures up with the rest of your company and sector.

Delve into details before voting for Dutton’s nuclear vision

Readers’ letters on the true costs of atomic energy, gender pay gaps, the green light for ConocoPhillips’ gas plan, leadership qualities, and housing affordability.

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ASX dives; Take Trump seriously: Goldman CEO; Explore the pay gap data

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

Average total remuneration in the top pay quartile for financial and insurance services is $306,934 but only 36 per cent of people in that bracket are women.

The pay gaps at Morgan Stanley, Barrenjoey, UBS

The gender pay gaps in the top tier of Australian finance are the largest in the country.

The latest gender pay gap release shows that companies that offer higher salaries often also have higher gender pay gaps.

Historic pay data dump gives money men nowhere to hide

Australia’s biggest payers have the biggest pay gaps. Nowhere is this more evident than in financial services, where the money men still dominate.

“Our diverse meritocracy is at the heart of who we are,” says McKinsey local managing partner Wesley Waldon.

‘Unsatisfactory’: US-based firms book biggest gender pay gaps

Law and consulting firms run out of the United States are grappling with the effects of an anti-DEI drive from the US government.

Men taking up a disproportionate share of senior and high-paid roles is a major driver of the gender pay gap.

Five charts that explain the gender pay gap

Men taking up a disproportionate share of executive positions is a major driver of the disparity. These charts offer some interesting revelations.

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Australia’s top-paying companies among worst pay gap culprits

A total of 24 companies pay their top-earning workers $1 million or more, but none of them have a neutral gender pay gap.

Gender data shows any lack of meritocracy is working in favour of men

Hopefully, employers will be able to use the gender pay gap data to counter the backlash from men who complain they are missing out on job promotions.

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Men dominate tech’s best-paid roles, but women are making inroads

Amid the DEI policy backlash, CEOs in the local tech sector have made progress in shrinking the pay disparity between their male and female employees.

Explore how your boss measures up on the gender pay gap

Enter your industry and company in our interactive to see how they measure up.

Mary Wooldridge needs to walk the talk.

If only the WGEA gender agency matched its ideals with action

Have an industry-beating gender pay gap or male-heavy leadership team? WGEA might have some work for you.

The gender pay gap is not only about the different salaries paid to men and women performing the same work.

The story bigger than the gender pay gap in today’s figures

Among the data released by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency is the average pay packet at almost every company with 100 or more employees.

BHP set a gender target. The (male) backlash took 3 years

The miner has more than tripled its female workforce over a nine-year campaign for balance. It overcame a huge shortage of women and an “alpha dog culture”.

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