GOOD PROGRESS BEING MADE IN AUSTRALIA
Womenomics 101 survey: Focus on Australia
- Recent figures suggest that Australian performance is in line with other comparable markets, and even that some good progress is being made.
- Of the top 9 companies in Australia, all have at least one woman on their Executive Committee, and 56% have two or more.
- Among the 19 women at the Executive Committee level at these companies, 8 of them are in line / operational roles, 11 of them are in staff, or support, functions.
- In the global WOMENOMICS 101 Survey 2009, 89% of American companies had at least one woman at Executive Committee level, while only 32% of European companies and 18% of Asian companies did.
- Looking at the complete list of the TOP 101 companies in Australia, 62% have at least one woman on their Executive Committees, while 38% have no women at all.
- Moreover, we see that 10.9% of Executive Committee positions in this group are occupied by women. Of the total 98 women holding Executive Committee roles, 19 are in line positions, 25 in human resources, 25 in legal /administration roles and the balance in a variety of key functions.
- At the very top of these 101 companies, we note that 4 have female CEOs. 3 of the largest 9 companies now have female leaders in either Chair or CEO capacity, including Gail Kelly at Westpac Banking and board leadership by
Catherine Livingstone at Telstra and Elizabeth Bryan at Caltex.
- As women become a majority of the labour force and of university graduates in Australia, we believe it is the smart companies that will recognize the business benefits that gender balance can bring.
- This survey, run globally by 20-first, has been brought to Australia in partnership with the following organizations:
20-first: One of the world’s leading gender consultancies, www.20-first.com
Egon Zehnder International: The leading executive search and board consulting firm, www.egonzehnder.com
- The other country focus reports that have been published to date include India, Italy, France, the Netherlands and UK
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- Retaining and Improving the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999
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Diann Rodgers-Healey wrote on 29.07.2010 01:38:46:
Hello, when I tried to download the file Global Womenomics Survey, it indicated that the file was damaged. Could this please be rectified.
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