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 Home : About Equal Opportunity : Key Agenda Items : Women in Decision Making Roles

The Australian workforce is amazingly diverse. More than 4 million women are now in paid employment, and bringing with them a huge range of skills, life experiences and cultural backgrounds.

However, this diversity is not reflected in the ranks of our senior business and corporate leaders. 

While women and men often start out on the same career path, a gap soon opens up between them as their careers develop. As a result, in Australia today men outnumber women in managerial jobs by more than three to one.

What’s Holding Women back?
Barriers to Women’s Advancement in the Workplace
Do You Have to be a Man to Manage?
Vision for the Future - A new concept of Leadership
Facts on Women in Management
Women in Leadership Census Tool and Results
 
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For every $1 a company spends on flexible work or family benefits, there is a return of $2 through to $6 through reduced absenteeism, increased motivation and higher rates of retention?

(Work/Family Directions 1994 Study in US)
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“We are in the midst of a profound historical transition ... as significant as that from feudalism to capitalism.”

... Francis Moore-Lappe “Reweaving Business into the Social Fabric”