Tag: gender gap
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Atlassian works towards gender equality in tech
Australian founded workplace solutions company Atlassian is making strides towards gender equality in technology with their graduate intake. This year’s graduate intake for US$6 billion company is comprised of nearly 60% women. This represents a massive increase on last year’s 17% women graduate figure. Female representation in technology industry is an ongoing challenge that needs to…
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Superannuation not so super for women
A senate inquiry into Women’s Economic Security in Retirement has found that men on average retire with double the superannuation savings of women. With the gender pay gap at an all time high of 18.8%, it comes as no surprise that women’s futures are also threatened by gender bias. Research done by the Workplace Gender…
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The Global Gender Gap
Living in the 21st century, any sensible person would expect gender equality to be a ‘thing’ by now but unfortunately that dream is still not a reality. The World Economic Forum has released the Global Gender Gap Report 2015, which measures over ten years of global gender gap performance. Out of 145 countries, Australia ranked…