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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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How to Champion Change in the Workplace

How to Champion Change in the Workplace

We’re all responsible for championing gender equity in the workplace, but it’s not always easy to be...

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Worried your parental leave replacement will be better than you?

Worried your parental leave replacement will be better than you?

The reality is, regardless how good your manager or your parental leave policy is, without a plan in...

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Think twice before asking same-sex parents these 11 questions

Think twice before asking same-sex parents these 11 questions

We know that belonging is a fundamental, emotional need for human beings. And an absence of belonging, or...

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Working from home or living at work: How to avoid burnout in 2021

This will be far greater than the burnout we felt last year when, perhaps, it felt like there was a...

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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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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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A Firm Approach to Flexibility

STRIKING the balance between work and family life has never been harder. Being a present parent whilst...

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Morning Madness: A Survival Guide

Ask any working parent and they’ll tell you that getting out the door in the morning takes planning,...

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Life in iso: Blurred Lines

We’ve all gotta set some boundaries! Since workplaces and the education system requisitioned our homes last month, some...

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Your vision for family life in lockdown…

It’s really, really hard to work from home, parent and homeschool – like, give us NASA mission control, not...

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I want to return to work 4 days a week, but don’t want to end up having to do 5 days work in 4 days. Can Grace Papers help?

Certainly we can assist in negotiating your return to work. In Step 6, there are tools to enable you to think about the...

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