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Over-mentored, under-sponsored: the leadership act that moves the pay gap
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Over-mentored, under-sponsored: the leadership act that moves the pay gap

Every year, Equal Pay Day arrives to remind us of two numbers. This year they're 21.1% and 48 — the national gender pay gap, and the extra days the average...

Prue Gilbert
Prue Gilbert Founder and CEO of Grace Papers Lawyer and Gender Equality expert
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Should I put a sign on my office door saying what days I work? Or is it better not to, to create the impression that I’m always around?

You shouldn’t have to hide the fact that you work part time. That’s all you get paid for! You ought to have the right...

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Let’s not return to the Mummy Wars – Childcare in Australia

Seriously I had never considered that my decision to be a working mother was a choice between my country or...

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Tips for surviving the two week wait

It’s a complete mind game isnt’ it? That time between ovulation and peeing on a stick (or your period...

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Women We Love: Sally Hepworth

For many women, pregnancy is seen as a hurdle in their career, or worse, an end to it. But for Sally...

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Pledge for Parity

If freedom to work and care is only for mothers, then it limits the freedoms accessible to fathers,...

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Impact of Female Leaders on Profitability

A survey of 22,000 companies operating across 91 countries has found that locations with the highest...

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Real men flex

It’s been quite a busy break on the gender equality front – sexism in sport, domestic violence, new reports...

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Emma Watson speaks at Davos on women in the workforce

Harry Potter star Emma Watson has taken her gender equality campaign to the World Economic Forum at Davos....

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Hope for equality

In a world filled with terror and trauma, of violence and abuse, it’s sometimes difficult to have hope. But...

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Women we love: Professor Gillian Triggs

Australian Human Rights Commission President Gillian Triggs is an outspoken international human rights...

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We need Male Champions of Change in Education

Spirituality means waking up. And one might argue that the more than 60 men who have signed up to become...

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Are you working for free at school?

When Ben and I signed up for parent/helper this year, we did it together. The school asked for parents to...

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