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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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2020 Isn’t Over. It’s Time To Set Your Professional Vision

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all,...

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Egg Freezing, Ovulation Trackers: Common Fertility Myths Busted

“Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.” – Joan Didion In the span of a...

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Flying Solo: A winding road to empowered single parenting

“Option A is not available. So let’s just kick the shit out of Option B.” Dr. Emma Fulu appeared to have...

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From Little Things, Big Things Grow

Emotions drive so much of our behaviour – adults and children alike. The way to calm another person’s...

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A Recipe for Equality

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You...

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An Inclusive Approach to Parenting- Information Statement

Research Project Title: An Inclusive Approach to Parenting

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2020 has produced extra challenges for gender equality, but we must #KeepMindingTheGap

“I do very little negotiation with people. And they do little with me, in terms of it … if I was a woman...

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Respect@Work & the freedom to work free from sexual harassment

A review of the recent public discourse on sexual harassment reveals deep-seeded disrespect for women,...

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Care to Flex, or Flex to Care?

However, over the last 10 weeks, our working worlds have literally catapulted into a social science...

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In the spirit of Human Grace

“[Dadirri] is in everyone. It is not just an Aboriginal thing.” — Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann In the...

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Flexibility and Fatherhood

JULIAN Tai is a father of three but it’s often easier and less painful for him to tell people he has only...

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Is it time for a StayCation?

Hands up if you need a holiday right now. Ordinarily, many of us use the glorious run of public holidays...

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