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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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Women We Love: Karina Keisler

Karina Keisler is the Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at nbn, Australia’s National Broadband Network. She...

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Being Made Redundant Whilst On Parental Leave

We would receive, on average 4-5 calls a month from women who have been made redundant while on parental...

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The Childcare Subsidy: What you need to know

In July the Australian Government will implement major changes to the ways in which childcare is subsidised...

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Bringing it home: how tennis has sparked a maternity leave debate

“By saying to women, you can make it to the most senior positions in our workplaces…if you really want...

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More #Girlbosses please: How you can help shift gendered expectations at work

Growing up, girls are told they can become whatever kind of #Girlboss they want to be. But the data tells a...

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How I coach pregnant women to anticipate discrimination

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and...

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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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