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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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Empowered women empower women

“The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organisation but...

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Working Mum? Here’s what your kids want you to know

“We can tell stories all night and we can talk about the women who have inspired us. But what inspires me...

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Love Mecca?

“We can tell stories all night and we can talk about the women who have inspired us. But what inspires me...

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Womens economic security: Let’s lead the change

“As a nation, we must demand a life for women where they don’t just survive, but they thrive. Every woman...

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Its time to end the ‘Comeback Boys’ club

Last week, a doctor holding a very senior position in a hospital shared with me that she and a group of 8...

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How good men respond to inappropriate workplace behaviour

“Me too… If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me too’ as a status, we...

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Women Rising

“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all surround...

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Every woman should…

What does it mean to be empowered? What are the “shoulds” that can help us to build our own empowerment? We...

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Another year, another International Women’s Day…

“The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organisation but...

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#Timesup #Metoo – What now?

“So I want all the girls watching here, now, to know that a new day is on the horizon! And when that new...

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Dear Future Daughter

I want to tell you a story, a story about me, your mum, because I think it is important. I had a turning...

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Celebrating Diversity in Sport & Society

Kelly Applebee, Diversity Manager at the AFL Players’ Association, tells us why diversity is important on...

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