- ABS Payroll data has shown that health care, social assistance, electricity, gas, water and waste are the only sectors of the economy that increased hiring and employability figures during the pandemic.
- A study ‘Work and Care in the Time of Covid-19’ conducted by University of Melbourne Professor Lyn Craig in June aimed to discover how gender relations in work-family patterns would be tested and disrupted during the pandemic. “For many, the crisis made it worse, and gender inequities proved resistant to the changes in temporal and spatial workplace constraints,” said Professor Craig. The majority of women expressed dissatisfaction that the onus of house and family care fell on them, despite both partners continuing to work from home.
- Only 25% of employees in the mortgage industry are females, according to the MFAA. General manager of AAA Financial Group, Melissa Ashcroft, told Australian Broker that “it’s important to acknowledge how far we’ve come in the last few years, with undoubtedly more women in mortgage broking than ever before, but there still remain broader societal obstacles that dissuade some women from entering the finance industry.”
- The World Trade Organisation, who has been aiming to nominate its new director general since July, has settled on eight candidates with a further three being eliminated this week. Of the group of eight, there are three women in the running for the top job. They are Amina Mohamed from Kenya, Yoo Myung-hee from Korea and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala from Nigeria.
- Recent data from Weber Handwick’s ‘Gender Equality in the Executive Ranks‘ reveals that 7% of Fortune 500’s CEOs are women and just 5% of the UK’s FTSE CEOs are female.
