April
- Opinion
- Early learning
This budget boost for working women will supercharge the economy
We wilfully under-utilise 50 per cent of our economic potential, creating a national emergency we could easily solve.
- Zoe Daniel
The rise of the home husband
Changes in the structure of work make it more likely wives will go to the office and men will work from their abode.
- The Economist
Why this boss wants to help pay for childcare
In an Australian first, u&u Recruitment Partners will subsidise the costs of childcare up to ease the financial burden of returning to work.
- Julie Hare
Childcare rebates could leap to $14b - but women still aren’t back at work
A key objective of the most recent changes to childcare subsidies was to encourage more women into the workforce, but so far they haven’t taken the bait.
- Updated
- Julie Hare
March
- Opinion
- Women to watch
This is how to win the productivity prize
If a country used only half its factories, it would waste a lot of its productive potential. The same is true if we tap into only half of society’s brainpower.
- Danielle Wood
Why CEOs should care about the gender pay gap; Reporting season winners and losers
This week, James and Anthony examine the bombshell report into Australia’s gender pay gap and dish out the Chook awards for reporting season winners and losers.
December 2023
The $100,000 question at the heart of the gender pay gap
The gender pay gap isn’t just caused by bias and discrimination. And not everyone agrees about what we should do about it.
- Euan Black
October 2023
Women are asking for promotion, but men keep getting them: study
Men are promoted based on potential, but women must first prove their worth, the study and survey of US and Canadian companies found.
- Ella Ceron and Emily Chang
September 2023
‘Don’t let boys have all the fun,’ Macquarie CEO urges potential recruits
Just one third of applicants for graduate roles at Macquarie are female, Shemara Wikramanayake said, meaning women were “self-selecting out of what we are doing” at entry level.
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Gender equality
Matildas and Barbie show the business case for gender equality adds up
An equal number of CEOs named Michael and Matilda, Bob and Barbie, Tom and Tilly would mean a better economic future for us all.
- Marie Festa
August 2023
The success of mothers at the World Cup will force football to change
Until recently a soccer career and motherhood were considered incompatible, by governing bodies and the footballers themselves.
July 2023
- Opinion
- Gender pay gap
Why bonuses are a real problem behind the gender pay gap
The ‘good bloke’ mentality is to blame when it comes to discretionary remuneration, a key driver of pay inequality.
- Bianca Hartge-Hazelman
June 2023
- Opinion
- Financial planners
I’d rather sit down with a female financial planner
Gender bias is a powerful force – and it could be holding women back financially in more ways than you might think.
- Bianca Hartge-Hazelman
May 2023
Could Danielle Wood be the country’s most influential economist?
The woman running the Grattan institute is enjoying a golden run of policy wins.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Labor’s childcare and welfare policies at cross-purposes on working mums
To spend heavily to incentivise one cohort of mothers to work while spending heavily to disincentivise another cohort to do so defies logic.
- Amanda Stoker
March 2023
Why Gen X female executives are quitting their jobs
Jacinda Ardern, Sheryl Sandberg, Nicola Sturgeon and Susan Wojcicki are part of a wider trend as female leaders reappraise what matters.
- Jonnelle Marte
February 2023
- Opinion
- NSW Election
How not to treat women, Liberal Party style
The experiences of three women, from different generations, show why the party keeps losing elections.
- Aaron Patrick
January 2023
Meet the woman making Julia Gillard’s dream a reality
Michelle Ryan is helping to create a world in which being a woman is no barrier to becoming a leader in any field.
- Julie Hare
December 2022
Pottinger’s Cassandra Kelly says we mustn’t be scared of rising rates
The corporate adviser discusses the modern dilemmas of autonomous weapons, investing for the public good and getting women in the workforce.
- Matthew Cranston
November 2022
- Opinion
- Workplace culture
Why women are big losers in the politics of pockets
You shouldn’t need to be a man to have proper pockets in your clothes.
- Pilita Clark
