49% of Australia is multicultural, representing our diverse customer market, yet organisations do not reflect this diversity in their senior leadership. Diverse female employees, experience the double jeopardy of culture and gender, which sees even less culturally diverse women; (less than 1.9%) in top jobs. The fastest growing customer market...
Advancing Women is an Australian based, globally focussed enterprise providing research, consulting and advisory services on equality, inclusion and gender diversity, in sport and in business. What Problem Are We Solving? Australia is a wealthy, developed country which has had positive economic outcomes for more than 2 decades, bucking the global...
Regional Australia is often at the forefront of structural adjustment. There is, and will continue to be, a changing demographic in the labour market. In regions, such as Geelong and the Latrobe Valley, men are leaving manufacturing and mining jobs, while their partners are moving back into full-time work and...
In Australia, companies are realising that Diversity and Inclusion is good for business. With 46% of the workforce represented by women, inclusive targets of 50% of women represented on leadership teams are being set and achieved by Boards, CEO’s and Heads of Diversity + Inclusion. However, we still have a long...
The ever-increasing drive for diversity is not having the equality impact we need For over ten years, corporate Australia has been ramping up a stated drive for greater diversity in the workplace, which has primarily been around increasing female workforce participation, including the percentage of women at management levels and...
As a HR Executive, I hated being ‘sold’ to When I reflected on my own 19 years of experience as a Human Resources practitioner in operational and corporate environments working for large global multinationals, I realised that I was totally resistant to approaches by service providers. The sheer volume of...
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