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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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Fatherhood: Navigating Choices

We catch up with Andrew Hagger, CCO at NAB Consumer Banking & Wealth Management, to talk about the...

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Fighting For Equal Pay in the AFWL

In sport, women strive for equality on and off the pitch. We catch up with Lauren Arnell, Captain of...

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Importance of Parental Leave and Return to Work

We know that the financial impact of having children reverberates for the rest of women’s lives, and can...

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How to Champion Change in the Workplace

We catch up with Adam Fennessy, husband, father of three, partner at EY and former public servant for over...

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Don’t Let Pregnancy Be a Break In Your Career

We catch up with Lauren Jauncey, previously Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Australia Post, to find out...

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Why You Need A Professional Vision

A professional vision can smooth the transition back into the workplace after parental leave, and help you...

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A 9% gender pay gap in education…say what?

Friday 27 October marks National Teacher’s Day – a time to reflect on those who fulfil support us to...

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A job offer and a positive pregnancy test: should you tell?

Last week, a friend called to workshop a pregnancy dilemma. She’d been offered a promotion; one she’d been...

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Latte Papas – a solution to the mental load?

We’ve just had two weeks of school holidays, which is possibly why “The mental load” comic created by a...

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Privilege for Disadvantage

At the Victorian Womens Lawyers Lesbia Harford address last week, writer Clem Ford argued that “Men with...

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Garma Festival- The collaborative paradox

“Garma is black and white, all kinds of different political colours, young and old, coming together and...

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Discrimination- Bust the Myths with Data

A $52,000 fine, imposed on an employer for denying an employee’s request for flexible hours after returning...

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