Equality Means Business
The Women’s Empowerment Principles Summit
The Women’s Empowerment Principles Summit
Check Against Delivery
Thank you Andreas for your generous introduction and for your inspired leadership of the WFE.
It is an honour and a privilege to be here this evening, addressing such a large group of influential leaders, key economic actors in your nations – leaders who cannot only influence but in many cases lead the corporate governance agenda.
I would like to begin by acknowledging the tradiational owners of the land on which we meet: the Gadigal people of the Eora nation and their Elders, past.
I also am very happy to acknowledge that we meet in the presence of one of our most revered Elders, Dame Marie Bashir.
Christine, Wendy and club members,
Good morning and welcome to the launch of Supporting Working Parents: Pregnancy and Return to Work National Review.
UN Women National Committee Japan Symposium: Women can participate even more! How Women’s Empowerment Principles will change the future of work
Thank you for inviting me to be part of the Talking Heads Series. It is a great pleasure to be here.
Launch of Women in male-dominated industries: A toolkit of strategies
(An edited version of this piece appeared in The Australian on Tuesday 21 May 2013 under the title ‘Room for women in all workplaces’.)
There is much said about talent shortages and the lack of skilled workers in Australia today, but so often we are not interested in looking in our own backyard to find these people. Too often we fail to learn from businesses that have made successful strides in tackling this conundrum.
This toolkit is designed to assist leaders in organisations to develop and implement constructive and sustainable strategies to increase the representation of women in non-traditional roles in male-dominated industries. It provides practical suggestions and examples of different kinds of workplace strategies and mechanisms across four areas of: attraction, recruitment, retention and development of women.