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Australian business needed to do more to promote women into senior corporate roles, Macquarie Group director Diane Grady said yesterday. While more than 50 per cent of university graduates in Australia were women, she said women made up only 10 per cent of senior executive roles

The Australian Census of Women in Leadership measures the status of women on boards and women executive managers in Australia's top 200 organisations listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Applying the business principle of what gets measured, gets done, the Census is designed to establish accurate statistics to enable international benchmarking.

The latest percentage of women on ASX 200 boards is 12.8% (9 August 2011) A total of 70 boards in the ASX 200 still do not have any women

Women are starting successful businesses at a higher rate than men, could this be a backlash to not getting onto corporate boards...women making their own boards?

The Australian Institute of Management will host the Great Debate - "Do Real Women Need Quotas?" on June 3.

Australian Centre for Leadership for Women: To empower women to develop their own style of leadership based on a combination of their individual strengths and an understanding of leadership theory and practice.

Women & Leadership Australia is a national initiative dedicated to supporting a higher representation of female leadership throughout the Australian workforce and the broader community. Encompassing all aspects of leadership capability, career progression and work/life balance, WLA programs have become a highly regarded example of workplace excellence and achievement. WLA regularly connects with thousands of individual Australian women, providing ongoing support and advice at every stage of their leadership journey.

hange is afoot with reforms to the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act demanding organisations address inequitable pay and deliver tangible equality outcomes, with the first reports to be signed off by CEOs in 2013. But will the new legislation tackle the underlying cause of women's glacial rise into senior roles in Australian corporations? 

In a recent proposal put forward to Canada's major banks, Quebec-based shareholder rights group MÉDAC (Mouvement d'éducation et de défense des actionnaires) asked the Big Five to commit to achieving equal representation between men and women on their boards in 10 years. Shareholders strongly rejected the proposals, with an average of just 11% voting in favour. A recent poll by Compas Inc. showed that Canadian CEOs didn't like the idea, either, with just 4% expressing support for MÉDAC's proposal. Is this universal or do Australian CEOs think differently?

The Rise Of Women-Owned Businesses [Infographic]

100th International Women's Day: Women still marking time in the boardroom

I contacted Suzi last week but haven't heard back re promotional opps. However she is supporting the Women On Boards Conference (who also have GD on their website) so I imagine we will get some visibility through this week's ABN newsletter topic. We should link to this one asap if possible.

Recruitment firm Randstad surveyed 7000 Australian job seekers. The respondents were given a list of 18 factors, and asked to select those they considered the most important when choosing an employer. The top five chosen by men were totally different from the top five chosen by women.April 29 2011

"Is it true that men get promoted on their potential while women have to prove themselves capable before being considered for a promotion?"

Australia's sex discrimination commissioner Elizabeth Broderick "first went out hard publicly, talking about introducing quotas - 'the Q word' - for women on boards...Then she approached 12 powerful men she knew had a strong commitment to gender equality...She never mentioned the Q word again.

though this report above is contradicted here - "women sidelined by boardroom boys" - http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/06/3030429.htm "Ms Broderick says the pace of change so far has been glacial and if it does not change she will push for quotas."

More than 80 of the Federal Government's 500 boards have no women, while just nine have no men

Article by Edward E. Lawler III. Management Reset