2009 Employers of Choice for Women: The 2009 EOWA Employer of Choice for Women
The issue of pay inequality in Australia still prevails with stats showing the pay gap between 15% – 16%. Unfortunately, women still comprise the largest percentage of Australia’s poor, and it is not only older women, it is younger in their 20’s and 30’s, women who are single or single parents who are living on or just below the poverty line.
The Federal Government’s Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA) has released a list of organizations that have been recognized as an Employer of Choice for Women. You can access the list that features those organizations, from various industries and business sizes that are proactively addressing this serious problem. “Despite the minimum requirement being 6 weeks paid maternity leave, the average duration provided by these organisations is nearly 12 weeks. EOCFW organisations have an average of 46.7% female managers and the average pay gap is 10.9%, 5.1% lower than the national average.” These are great results, however clearly there is still more work to be done in regards to an increase in the number of women occupying more senior positions and the abolition of the pay gap between men and women.
Click here to view the full list of organizations that made the EOWA list visit.
Some of those employers on the list include KPMG, CITI, American Express, Rio Tinto, Alcoa, Ernst & Young, Monash University, Southern Cross University and many more.
Are there organizations that you know that have not made the list and should be there? Let us know.
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