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Rebecca Huntley

Despite the DEI backlash, Aussie workers still open to gender equality

More than eight in 10 Australians say we need to stop pitting men and women against each other and focus on how men and women can work together to achieve equality.

“I’m very concerned”, said the head of HR, firmly gripping my arm and fixing me with a worried stare. She’d recently returned from a global conference with her counterparts, where she had witnessed DEI and gender equality initiatives being wound back in light of American developments.

I had just presented to her executive team the insights from Gender Compass, an audience segmentation that divides Australians into six distinct groups when it comes to gender equality.

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Rebecca Huntley is a writer, social researcher and fellow of the Research Society of Australia. She was a director of The Mind & Mood Report and integral to developing the Climate Compass Project.

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