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Gender pay gap widespread in financial services: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... the notorious crown as the industry with the highest gender pay gap, the latest report from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency shows. Financial services and insurance employers reported the largest gap of 31.9% between male versus female remuneration ...

Fight for workplace equality and diversity far from over

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
... a light on something that needs to change," Fox said. In addition to Fox, the panel featured Workplace Gender Equality Agency advice and reporting executive manager Vanessa Paterson, My Planner Australia managing director Philippa Sheehan, Stanford Brown ...

New social bond advocates gender equality

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
... institutional investors can participate in financing and re-financing organisations that the Workplace Gender Equality Agency cite as Employers of Choice for Gender Equality. The companies must also meet the requirements of NAB's social bond framework ...

Mercer appoints diversity leader

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
... Joining Mercer in the role is Yolanda Beattie, an executive with the Australian government's Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). The appointment comes on the back of Beattie's close relationship with Mercer in recent years, working with the firm ...

Women-led companies better for investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... make more money investing in women-lead enterprises. The scorecard, released by the Australian Workplace Gender Equality Agency that was established by the previous Gillard government to monitor gender participation in the economy, revealed that across ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... Council head John Brogden delivers a speech to the Australian Business Economists conference, and Workplace Gender Equality Agency director Helen Conway is to speak at an Australian British Chamber of Commerce lunch, all in Sydney. The CEDA workplace ...

Super funds should use soft power, not quotas to fix gender equality

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... providers. Helen Conway, director of the private sector employer equality industrial regulator, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), said superannuation was an influential industry because of its role in the economy, the financial system and ...

Super funds need more women in senior roles: WIS

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... specific "gender diversity targets" - but WIS is urging super funds to adopt targets voluntarily. Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) director Helen Conway put the business case for gender diversity. "A focus on gender diversity enables organisations ...
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