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Gender equity in Australia declining
- 1. Gender Equity in Australia Gender Equity Initiative What Problem ?
- 3. Women in Parliament of elected positions in the Australian Commonwealth Parliament are held by women 35.5% of Australian Senators are women 29.6% 26.7% of the Members of the House of Representatives are women Politics and Public Administration Group Parliamentary Library, Composition of Australian Parliaments by Party and Gender, as at 25 May 2009, available at www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/pol/currentwomen.pdf
- 7. The Global Gender Gap Index Australia’s ranking declining year on year Source: World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report 2008. http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gendergap/rankings2008.pdf
- 12. Leadership in Corporate Australia, in 2009 [1] Source: ABS Labour Force, Australia, Detailed, Quarterly, Feb 2009, 6291.0.55.003 [2] EOWA Australian Census of Women in Leadership 2008
- 21. The Nordic Experience NORWAY’S AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Spring 2003 - Proposition to Parliament to introduce the 40% quota for an “under represented gender” covering 500 PLCs and all state-owned and inter-municipal companies in Norway November 2003 - Norwegian parliament voted for the law with a majority (amendment added later to enable courts to dissolve a company if it was found not to be complying with the law) Spring 2008 - Most PLC’s had complied with the new law In 2003. 7% of their boards were made up of females and by July 2008 it had increased to 39% 1 1 “Diversity deployed: The Norwegian Story”, Sept 2009, Director General Arni Hole Ministry of Children and Equality, http://www.womenonboards.org.au/events/diversity2009/norway.htm Why Quotas Were Needed • Women were increasingly filling top positions in politics, academia, management, public services but NOT in the powerful boardrooms of private enterprises • Even conservative circles were impatient…. Nothing seemed to change, old boys networks prevailed “ For this I think quotas or targets are important because I think they can help in changing the stereotypes”. Ines Alberdi, Executive Director, UNIFEM, August 2009
- 26. Lets get started !
- 27. Comments and Responses Maree McLaren Egalitarian Email: [email_address] Telephone: 0421 515 992
Notas del editor
- Women are the chair of only 4 ASX 200 Boards in Australia. Women on boards of directors has declined to 8.3%.compared with 8.7 per cent in 2006. The average for the developed world is 10.3 per cent. The number of women CEOs are declining off a base of 2%. The number of executive management positions filled by women has declined from 12% in 2006 to 10.7% in 2009. Senior Line Management positions held by women have from 7.4% in 2006 to 5.9% in 2009. Senior Line Manager roles are critical development grounds for CEO and board opportunities.
- The Law Council of Australia revealed that in in 2007 in New South Wales male graduates were paid $70,300 while women received only $63,500
- Recent research shows that if current earning patterns continue, the average 25 year old male starting work today would earn $2.4 million over the next 40 years while the average 25 year old female would earn $1.5 million. 1 The consequences of this gender pay divide is that women not only have less money than men during their working lives but that they are two and half times more likely to live in poverty in their old age than men.
- When Parliament voted for gender balance quotas on boards of private companies in 2003, the elite men of the upper echelons of economic life in Norway exclaimed: Able women cannot be found, the women will not take on such responsibilities, our firm will be broke or have to flee Norway as to prosper