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Australia ranks 13th on gender parity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
The World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2025 shows Australia's gender parity has improved markedly in the past 12 months. Australia has jumped 11 places to rank 13 th globally for gender parity, with the gap now 79.2% closed. In Asia Pacific ...

Australia fails benchmark for female-led funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... average of 12.5%, the latest Alpha Female Report finds. Citywire's annual analysis, which tracks the progress of gender parity in asset management, calculated 903 Australian fund managers in its database and found that only 3% of strategies are run ...

Women continue to lag in asset management

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... Women make up 28% of the industry, but at the current rate of promotion and retention, investment teams will reach gender parity at the end of the decade. Progress is slow and poaching is rife in Australia's $4.3 trillion investment sector, with a four-point ...

Gender gap to close in 134 years: World Economic Forum

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... revealing that, at the current pace, it will take another 134 years - equivalent to five generations - to achieve full gender parity. Globally, the gender gap has closed by just 0.1% since last year. "Despite some bright spots, the slow and incremental ...

Investors scrutinise Australia-first gender pay gap data

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... within their industry. "It is encouraging to see that gender pay gaps for almost one-third of employers are close to gender parity within their workforce," she said. Wooldridge said gender pay gaps should target +/-5%. This signifies that a workplace ...

Boards not ready for new workplace laws

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... exercise. A majority - 70% - of directors said their organisation has set recruitment and promotion targets to achieve gender parity in management, with leading organisations already integrating sexual harassment and other positive duty conduct into ...

Cleaning up diversity-washing boosts business performance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... OMFIF's Gender Balance Index found that at the current rate of progress, it will take 140 years to achieve leadership gender parity in finance. The Impactor software aims to hold business leaders accountable and compliant with gender pay gap reporting ...

140 years to gender parity in finance: OMFIF

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... career progression and earning potential. The OMFIF report is an important reminder of the slow progress towards gender parity in leadership positions in the financial industry, with much work still needed to address the issue.

Executive directors overwhelmingly male: AICD

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... experience to point the way forward. "It's clear what can be achieved with commitment and intent." At the board level gender parity continues to progress, at 36% in the ASX 200 and 35.5% in the ASX 300. However, the independent membership-based organisation ...

Podcast: Nurturing diversity in investment management with Yolanda Beattie

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... funds presents an opportunity for the superannuation fund industry to collectively break down structural barriers to gender parity in the industry. Beattie talks about how her innovative program partners with major super funds and investment managers ...
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