Women in the workplace


Why is Australia ranked 20th in the world for equal pay?

All the talk of work/life balance for women is simply a sweetener because they aren’t being paid equally, writes Leon Gettler. It’s not just women, men who refuse to play the ‘boys club’ mentality are also loosing out on pay.

David Letterman’s boys’ club: a former Late Show writer tells all

In the wake of the David Letterman blackmail and sex scandal, one of the few women to ever write for Letterman dishes the dirt on the sexist and sexually-charged working environment in a tell-all piece for Vanity Fair

Get your batons out ladies, it’s time to start smashing

If Australia’s top companies don’t put more women on their boards then the government should impose quotas, says the Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick. Time to get rid of that glass ceiling.

A board without women is …. Fairfaxed!

Lost in the details of the great schism in the Fairfax boardroom is the news that after the annual general meeting next month, there will be no women on the board.