Women going backwards on Wall Street – and everywhere

It is becoming a depressingly recurring theme: the numbers for women are not good, whichever way you look at them. Read this comprehensive description of the state of play for women’s employment in the US from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

October 28th, 2010 | Category: equal pay, equality, Featured, the economy, Wall Street, women, women in business, women's employment, women's leadership, work life balance | One comment

High praise for ‘On Luck’

A review in the Sun-Herald today describes my essay ‘On Luck’ as “brilliant”.  The essay is now included in an ‘On-nibus’ collection of eight of the “little books on big themes” essays published by Melbourne University Press in 2008.

Another standout is Anne Summers’s excellent essay on the notion of the “lucky country” – a phrase [...]

February 21st, 2010 | Category: Australia, books, economic planning, gambling, On Luck, resources boom, the economy | One comment

Time for women’s workforce status to improve

Australian women have one of the lowest labour market participation rates in the OECD, are underrepresented in the leadership ranks of public companies and continue to receive only 82.5 per cent of what men earn.

This situation is bad for the economy, bad for national productivity, and bad for women.

It is also a shocking waste of [...]

September 23rd, 2009 | Category: Australian politics, the economy, women, women's employment | Leave a comment

Time for affirmative action

If Julia Gillard and Barack Obama can benefit from affirmative action to give them a leg-up (Obama to get into Harvard, and Gillard to finally get preselection for a seat in parliament) then why can’t we do the same to help women get ahead in Australian companies?

Victorian Premier’s Women’s Summit 2009
 

September 10th, 2009 | Category: Barack Obama, equality, Julia Gillard, the economy, women's employment | Leave a comment

Unequal pay debate rages

Lavatus Prodeo, a blog about Australian politics, has launched a fierce debate about (the continuing lack of ) equal pay for women in australia. Check it out

August 26th, 2009 | Category: Featured, feminism, the economy, women, women's employment | 3 comments

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