Sexual harassment prevalence appears to have reduced in Australia over the past 5 years, but is still unacceptably high. And if you pick absolutely any marginalised group in society, that group is significantly more likely to experience sexual harassment. Continue Reading
Sobering statistics on sexual harassment in Australia. Of the 20 million people in Australia over the age of 15, in the last 12 months approximately 1.6 million women and 840,000 men – nearly 2.5 million people – have experienced sexual harassment of any kind. Included in this are 148,000 women and 57,000 men who were sexually assaulted – 201,000 people.Continue Reading
Today’s Book Review is Men at Work: Australia’s Parenthood Trap, the latest Quarterly Essay by Annabel Crabb In a follow up essay to her previous book The Wife Drought, Annabel Crabb investigates what is stopping men taking on more of the parenting load. In the last 50 years, women haveContinue Reading
Sitting in a meeting of my industry peers this week, I did what I often did, and tried to count the proportion of women in the room. Luckily, for a change, I wasn’t the only woman. There were three of us out of 20! So I calculated the minimum numberContinue Reading
Read this book, and if you have any influence over data; its collection or its use; think honestly about whether you are considering women as much as men in the way you collect your data. And remember that the more often decision makers reflect the general population (whether by gender or other measures of diversity) the more likely it is that decisions will be good for that diverse population.Continue Reading
Recently the ATO released its annual statistics for the most recent tax year. You can find all sorts of statistics in the release here. I decided it was about time I updated anything I could find on actuarial pay, and particularly gender gaps. A couple of years ago, Julia LessingContinue Reading
There’s recently been a bit of interest in Julia Lessing‘s post here – Is there really a gender gap for actuaries? So I thought it was time to look at the most recent statistics. I had a look at the latest information from the Australian census (using my new favouriteContinue Reading
In what is now my traditional first post of the year, I’ve written my usual round-up of my reading for the year here. A fairly eclectic set of books, with perhaps a bit more memoir than normal. My two favourites were these: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu The Bad-Ass LibrariansContinue Reading
It was International Women’s Day this week, which The Economist celebrated with the release of their annual glass-ceiling index. The index looks at a combination of factors including female share of senior managers, share of company directors, cost of childcare, and the level of paid leave for fathers. As usual, theContinue Reading
In Julia Lessing’s recent post, she analysed the likely reasons for the gender pay gap between men and women, and concluded that based on available evidence, at least some of it is due to discrimination. But what else is behind it? This week’s post looks at the Carer Pay gapContinue Reading