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.
This website is a wiki page on the topic of gender and gender discrimination. It has a section on the 'women on boards' topic, including articles and statistics. Who doesn't like a Wiki page!?
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?
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."
Real Women don't need a quota. Check out this site for all the latest on the AIM Great Debate 2011. Including links to the Twitter feed so you can keep up to date, and have your say.
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