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Gender pay gap

November

Qantas reduced its chief executive pay by 26 per cent when it replaced Alan Joyce with Vanessa Hudson.

Female bosses are paid $159k less than men

Female chief executives and heads of business are paid an average of $158,632 less than their male counterparts, according to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

  • Euan Black

October

Ed Li, Michael Skinner, and Sunny Bangia of Blackwattle Investment Partners

Blackwattle Partners says it’s too expensive to hire women

Pedestals are nothing if not slippery. Just ask Blackwattle Investment Partners.

  • Myriam Robin
Top earners: Mark Delaney, Deanne Stewart, David Elia and John Pearce.

Big super’s executive gender pay gap revealed

Analysis by The Australian Financial Review also shows who the highest-paid superannuation bosses were last year.

  • Hannah Wootton
Jo Reardon, director of global FX sales for CBA’s chief operations office.

Return to work programs let talent shine, narrow gender pay gap

Jo Reardon says going back to banking after five years was daunting but a return to work scheme helped her thrive at the Commonwealth Bank.

  • Euan Black

Explore how your boss measures up on the gender pay gap

Company-specific gender pay gaps were revealed for the first time earlier this year. Enter your industry and company in our interactive chart below to see how they measure up.

  • Michael Read, Hannah Wootton and Daniel Reti
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September

Samuelson Appau

DEI is no longer just about ethics, it’s about profits, academics say

Australian business schools are providing an increasing amount of diversity components to reflect a growing corporate demand.

  • Gus McCubbing

August

Myths about why men are paid more than women don’t stack up.

This Gender Pay Day, employers must take action for their own good

Women must work, on average, 50 more days per year to earn the same as men. Here’s what businesses need to do about it.

  • Mary Wooldridge
Deloitte chief people and purpose officer Pip Dexter said public reporting of employers’ gender pay gaps had encouraged more bosses to prioritise the issue.

Greater transparency drives gender pay gap to record low

The publication of large employers’ gender pay gaps has pressured bosses to do more to address the issue.

  • Euan Black

July

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

June

Gender equality campaigners need to do more to get young men on board, Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz says.

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 in the federal public service are more likely than woemn to be in the highest-paid jobs.

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
Investment manager Kristen Le Mesurier says it’s a demanding job that not everyone wants to do.

Australia had more female fund managers seven years ago

Industry efforts to hire more women in investment management have borne fruit. But the industry is struggling to get more women into portfolio manager roles.

  • Euan Black

May

Ian Lilley has recently come back from parental leave.

Why dads take less time off than mums

Gender stereotypes are discouraging men from taking paid parental leave, a survey has found, making it harder for Australia to close the gender pay gap.

  • Euan Black
Employees at Melanie Perkins’ Canva are higher paid than tech staff elsewhere, but are increasingly unionised, according to Professionals Australia.

Study shows pay gaps between tech’s big names and the rest

A new study shows a stark difference in pay at newer tech stars like Atlassian and Canva, compared to public sector and other tech company specialists.

  • Paul Smith

‘I thought I had dementia’: How menopause crimps income and super

Menopause costs women as much as $60,000 in retirement savings, according to ASFA.

  • Sian Powell
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Minister for Women Katy Gallagher.

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
The gender pay gap is explained by women just being paid less than men, a new analysis has found.

It’s not what you do but who you are: gender pay gap myths busted

The gender pay gap is not explained by women’s career choices, or that they work part-time. They just get paid less than men, a new study has found.

  • Julie Hare
The pay disparity between lawyers with equivalent levels of experience is greatest among senior lawyers.

Legal grad pay tops $110k, but wage gap still stubborn

The gender pay gap in the legal industry remains “stubbornly and consistently high”, a survey has found.

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  • Maxim Shanahan

Family-focussed firm offers fertility benefits

Staff at Engage Squared can receive up to $5000 towards fertility treatments.

  • Christopher Niesche

April

Sticking to a five-day week: 21-year-old construction trainee Charbel Helou.

Construction’s long hours put next generation of workers off

A new industry survey shows working conditions in an industry already struggling to attract women are also putting off the next generation of men.

  • Michael Bleby

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