Project Management News
No Movement On Gender Pay Gap
Employers have made zero progress in closing the gender pay gap over the past year, new data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) shows. Australian women have earned, on average, 22.8% less than men for two years now, meaning employers must step up their...
EDGE Plus is excited to announce the new ‘Break the Bias Support the Cause’ initiative.
Edge Plus, the leading provider of female professional management resources has announced today a new program supporting some of the most important female charities. “We have long wanted to give back to the community and can’t think of a better group of women’s...
Men out-earn women, study shows
What can employers do to close the gender pay gap in the workplace? Men earn more than women across every generation, emphasizing an increased gender pay gap, according to the latest Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) census. With the peak at ages 55-64, men earn...
How Australia is failing its highly educated women
The education of Australian women has come a long way since they were first able to get access to the country’s universities in the 1880s. By the 1970s, one in three students were female and, these days, they make up more than half. Now, one in two women aged 25 to 34...
Toolkit: Creating Gender Equality through Procurement
Femeconomy has partnered with The 30% Club and leading Australian Board Directors to develop a Gender Equality Procurement Toolkit, to support organisations to implement procurement strategies that create gender equality across their supply chains, and foster ethical...
The Solution To Australia’s Jobs Crunch Could Be Already Here.
Australian businesses starved of skilled workers could recruit from a pool of more than half a million job-ready women, but only if the next government invests in better childcare, improves access to paid parental leave and drives higher wages in critical industries....
EDGE Plus: ‘The most righteous thing you can do is shake things up’
'As much as we would like to change the world, we are realistic' “Diversity and equality is making sure that being polite is not the same thing as being quiet. In fact, the most righteous thing you can do is shake things up, so time to shake things up”. Founded by Deb...
EDGE Plus Goes All In
“To achieve diversity and equality, being polite cannot be the same as being quiet. The most righteous thing you can do is speak up and shake things up. Now’s the time to shake things up.” Founded by Deb Jeffers EDGE PLUS is Australia's first all-female private...
Ending Australia’s gender pay gap: How to improve diversity in the C-suite
'It starts from the top down' Australia continues to lag behind the rest of the world when it comes to the representation of women in leadership roles – and it’s stunting efforts to reduce the country’s stubborn gender pay gap. Just over half of Australia’s workforce...
Ending Australia’s gender pay gap: How to get buy-in from your CEO
'Don't just expect that if someone's got a daughter, they're going to care' BY Jess Bell 30 Sep 2021 The case for creating a diverse workplace is well-documented. Business leaders would have to be living under a rock to have missed the news that a more diverse...
Senate passes bill to include miscarriage leave in Australia’s Fair Work Act
Employers in Australia are now required to provide employees with two days of paid bereavement leave for parents who experience a miscarriage, after a historic change to the Fair Work Act. It comes after five years of campaigning by The Pink Elephants, a support...
Equal Pay Day: Men out-earn women by $13,000 a year
WGEA director says the new data is a stark warning for employers. Today marks Australia’s Equal Pay Day, signifying the 61 extra days women in Australia must work on average to receive same pay as men. This year, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) announced...