This Month
Stand up to whinging gas giants
Readers’ letters on a controversial drawing in The Australian Financial Review, gas tax, replacing Jacinta Allan, and self-managed superannuation funds.
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Kimberly-Clark is considering a unique staff perk for new parents
The company behind the Huggies brand is looking at giving them free nappies and wipes as part of its efforts to meet gender equality targets.
Our tax system punishes mothers for going back to work
Australia’s tax and transfer system has been built on outdated assumptions about work and care.
The gender pay gaps at Australia’s top investment banks revealed
Investment banks record some of the largest pay gaps in Australia. At Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and UBS, the average gap exceeds 50 per cent.
Why is it so hard for some companies to do better on gender pay?
Board director Andrew Stevens says the gap at the top end of town will never close unless executive roles can be redesigned to better suit women.
KWM, Allens slip backwards on law firm gender pay gap
All other firms in the top eight have shrunk their average pay gap, and Gilbert + Tobin has fallen just short of paying its female lawyers the same as men.
McKinsey hires more junior women to fix ‘stalled’ leadership ranks
The percentage of women in McKinsey’s high-earning leadership ranks remains at 30 per cent as blue-chip companies continue to poach its top female talent.
Build a C-suite pipeline to close the gender pay gap
Companies should prioritise retaining and supporting women in senior roles so that the talent is there when the top job becomes available.
Bain struggles to walk the talk
The only thing worse than the consulting group’s stubborn gender pay gap is its silence on the issue.
Australia’s best-paid public servants revealed
New data shows which government agencies are splashing out on their staff – women as well as men – and which aren’t.
Find out how your pay compares with your co-workers (and industry)
How well paid are you? Use our tool to see how your income measures up with the rest of your company and your industry.
Massive $US1.6b share sale widens Canva’s gender pay gap
New figures show granting stock to early start-up employees can worsen the tech sector’s gender pay gap.
PwC leads big four firms in race to close gender pay gap
Big four consulting firms Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC now have gender-balanced workforces of at least 40 per cent at every income level.
Gender pay gap data of little use for high-flying women
At 16 of the 28 companies that pay $1 million or more to top earners, women account for 20 per cent or fewer of the employees in that bracket.
Bonuses the ‘black box’ female executives can’t crack
The latest Workplace Gender Equality Agency data shows while salary gaps are narrowing, women are not getting an equal share of bonuses.
February
‘Please stop asking me when I’m going to retire’
Sixty-year-old Celine Egan says her executive career is shifting into high gear – so why is everybody asking her about when she plans to leave?
December 2025
Employer cut men’s salaries to solve its gender pay problem
The workplace umpire has blasted the demotions of long-serving male managers, saying pay equity should not involve “amputating the legs of the men above”.
October 2025
Learn from Spain on gas pricing
Readers’ letters on gas pricing distortions, renewable and nuclear energy, Abbott’s lack of vision, Ley’s T-shirt tantrum and the need for a letter writers’ cabinet.
September 2025
If politics can deliver gender equality, why can’t corporate Australia?
In corporate Australia, the accountability mechanisms driving every other form of business performance somehow don’t apply to gender targets.
Memo to women: Get ready to work for free again
The gender pay gap is tediously persistent and worse than we thought, with it persisting even when female freelancers set their own remuneration rates.
