This Month
How fatherhood will change your body’s chemistry
Men’s physiology responds viscerally to parenthood, just as women’s does when caring for infants.
- Angela Saini
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Gender and family advocates will have to wait a bit longer
The issue with announcing a rise in wages for childcare workers is that there is a multi-enterprise bargaining process underway.
- Sally Patten
Super on parental leave adds $4250 to retirement balance
The government will also spend $55.6 million over four years to establish the Building Women’s Careers program.
- Sally Patten and Joanne Tran
Garrick Club of London votes to accept female members for first time
The vote – a margin of roughly 60 per cent to 40 per cent – will open membership to women for the first time since the club’s founding in 1831.
- Mark Landler
Gender of directors added no financial value: study
A study by the Australian National University has found that the gender of directors appointed to company boards had no impact on the financial performance of those businesses.
- Patrick Durkin
It’s not what you do but who you are: gender pay gap myths busted
The gender pay gap is not explained by women’s career choices, or that they work part-time. They just get paid less than men, a new study has found.
- Julie Hare
April
The advice that’s helped Loudon navigate the boardroom
Bridget Loudon says some wise words from her mum have stuck with her as she’s navigated life as the director of a blue-chip giant.
- James Thomson
Why AGL chairman Patricia McKenzie couldn’t get a job in a law firm
She almost didn’t take up legal studies in the first place, but didn’t expect to find job hunting so difficult.
- Sally Patten
The rise of the home husband
Changes in the structure of work make it more likely wives will go to the office and men will work from their abode.
- The Economist
Elite men-only club takes first steps to allow women
The fight for female members has revealed the Garrick Club hosts the deputy prime minister, Hollywood actors, a spy boss and Supreme Court justices.
- Albert Tait and Patrick Sawer
Why young men and women are drifting apart
Diverging worldviews between the sexes could affect politics, families and more.
- The Economist
- Updated
- Governance
Age, diversity on company boards plummets, gender stalls
There are more directors with an Anglo-Celtic background than seven years ago on the ASX 300, a new survey has found, and the average age of a director is creeping upwards.
- Hannah Wootton
March
Inside London’s elite men-only club rocked by criticism
Britain’s MI6 boss and the cabinet secretary are all members of the historic and star-studded Garrick Club now under fire for refusing to allow women to join.
- Mark Landler
Government contracts on the line if gender targets not met
Companies like BAE Systems, Microsoft, SAP and the big consulting firms stand to lose billions in government contracts if they can’t prove they’re meeting targets.
- Hannah Wootton
- Exclusive
- Education
Study shows why kids drop out of school
Schools need to respond to early warning signs and provide individualised support if high school dropout rates are to be averted, a study says.
- Julie Hare
Slash nine-year terms, end gender box-ticking: Livingstone
Catherine Livingstone has called for six-year terms for directors to help refresh boardrooms and urged a focus on diversity beyond the usual box-ticking metrics such as gender.
- Patrick Durkin and Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Opinion
Has the push for female equality gone too far?
Ireland’s failure to modernise constitutional language on the role of women suggests reluctance to go further with equality. What’s going on?
- Updated
- Pilita Clark
Girls know more about how to rule the world, but it’s boys who want to
A global study found that girls have a greater understanding of civics and citizenship. Boys, however, are more likely to want to become a politician.
- Julie Hare
Can’t name a woman who chairs an ASX20 company? There is a reason
Despite the proportion of female directors on ASX20 boards surging to 44 per cent, none of them sit at the top of the table, analysis by the AICD found.
- Sally Patten
Seven ways to close your gender pay gap from bosses who did it
BOSS speaks to a range of companies that have been working hard to narrow pay disparities between men and women. This is what they did.
- Sally Patten