Diverse City Careers (DCC)* are pleased to welcome AECOM to their community of employers with a strong focus on gender diversity. DCC* is a social enterprise helping women pursue rewarding careers, particularly in sectors with high gender inequality rates. Other...
Culturally Diverse Women in STEMM: Smashing Two Ceilings
This article was originally published on Women in Science AUSTRALIA By Dr Shokoufeh Malekjani Going up the career ladder in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) is indeed hard. Even harder if you are a woman and hardest when you are a...
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Mother’s Day this month gave us cause to stop and recognize the wonderful female carers in our lives. Yet as thousands of pairs of fluffy slippers were unwrapped across the country, you’d be forgiven for pausing to consider what it is that Australian working mums...
Notes from the WIMnet Chair
I write this late at night after a long day at site, sitting on a single bed in an unfamiliar room. I am in temporary accommodation in a town near the mine I manage a project at. This town is not only a long drive from my family and friends, but after the drive I must...
Professional development – don’t ask, don’t get!
You’d love to attend the program or workshop, but you are dreading the conversation with your manager, director or Board – whoever it is who approves your professional development. If you are a woman, our experience at Integral Development shows that you’d rather...
Women get to earn less and pay more: Introducing the ‘Sales Gender Gap’
Most of us are aware of the 17.3% gender pay gap but did you know that male to female disparity is also prevalent in areas we never would have thought of? This week, I uncovered a gap that was new to me, and that’s the “sales gender gap”. To start at the beginning;...
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