Erica van Lieven talks diversity in the workplace

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WIRe
Erica van Lieven
Managing Director
March 2016
Diversity and work in Australia
Taking a leap forward

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3. Education:
Australian girls are ahead of boys on literacy
Maths Science and
Reading scores on
PISA, 15 Years old
Source: OECD 2004 Learning for Tomorrow’s World –
First results from PISA 2003

4. Source: ABS 2001 Transition from Education to Work
Survey; 2002-2010 Surveys of Education and Work
In average year 12 male students achieve lower marks
than female students

5. From a slow start women in Australia have increased their
participation in tertiary education

6. Women out number men
in enrolments for bachelor degrees
Source: ABS 2011 Survey of Education and Work

7. Yet median starting salaries
for women are consistently lower than males…
Source: ABS Gender Indicators Australia, Australian
Social Trends July 2012

8. Fields of education where men earned more than women in 2012 and 2011
2012 2011
Industry
Male
($, 000)
Female
($, 000)
Male
($, 000)
Female
($, 000)
Architecture and building 52 43 50 43
Dentistry 92 77.6 80 75
Optometry 82 75 72 70
Law 55 50.7 52 50
Economics, business 50 47 50 45
Art and design 42.5 40 42 40
Accounting 50 48 48 46
Mathematics 58.1 56 55 55
Veterinary science 46 45 43 45
Paramedical studies 53 52 52 50
Social work 50.9 50 49 50
Psychology 49.5 49 50 47
Agricultural science 50.5 50 45 46
Source: Workplace Gender Equality Agency | GradStats
– starting salaries | www.wgea.gov.au
In 13 fields of education
male starting salaries were greater than their female counterparts

9. We are wasting the investment in education
Source: Gender Equality in Education, Employment
and Entrepreneurship: OECD, May 2012

10. Market Research has a higher proportion
of female CEOS’s relative to other industries in Australia
Source: Workplace Gender Equity Agency, includes data from the 2013-14 and
2014-15 reporting periods

11. However there remains a gap of approx. 16%
in total remuneration between men and women in 2015 in MR
Source: Workplace Gender Equity Agency, includes data from the 2013-14 and
2014-15 reporting periods

12. Representation of women
in senior executive positions in ASX 200 companies has not exceeded 13% for the past decade
Source: Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace
Agency ; 2012 Australian Census of Women in Leadership

13. What stops women from reaching the top?
Source: What stops women from reaching the top?
Confronting the tough issues, BAIN & Co 2011

14. “
Peter Stubbs and Dianne Dunleavy,
weekend radio Melbourne 3AW, FEB 2016
It's odd that people need to bring up the
fact we are male and female.
Neither of us judge people according to their
gender but we have sometimes been treated that
way. I have had meetings with management
where I was the focus of the discussion but
management directed all the comments to
Grubby. I was invisible. If there are complaints
about something said on our show they are
usually about me – even though it might not have
been me who made the remarks”

15. “One of the greatest
discoveries you can
make, is to understand
how fear can hold
you back…..

16. PASTARE YOU COURAGEOUS ENOUGH
TO ABANDON THE PAST?

17. Warren Buffet is bullish on women
We’ve seen what can be
accomplished when we use 50
per cent of our human capacity.
If you visualise what 100 per
cent can do, you’ll join me as an
unbridled optimist.
Warren Buffet ,
Fortune Magazine May 20, 2013
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Women should never forget
that it is common for powerful
and seemingly self-assured
males to have more than a bit
of the Wizard of Oz in them.
Pull the curtain aside, and
you'll often discover they are
not supermen after all. (Just
ask their wives!)
Fortune Magazine May 20, 2013
“

18. References
Australian Bureau of Statistics 2013, Australian Social Trends, cat. no. 4102. 0, ABS, Canberra.
Australian Bureau of Statistics 2012, Australian Social Trends, cat. no. 4102. 0, ABS, Canberra.
Australian Bureau of Statistics 2012, GenderIndicators, cat. no. 4125.0, ABS, Canberra
Australian Bureau of Statistics 2011, Australian Social Trends, cat. no. 4102. 0, ABS, Canberra.
Australian Bureau of Statistics 2006, Australian Social Trends, cat. no. 4102. 0, ABS, Canberra.
Australian Government & Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency 2012, Australian Census of
Women in Leadership, Australian Government & Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency, Canberra.
Toohey, T Colosimo, D Boak, A 2009, Economics:Australia's Hidden Resource: The Economic Case For Increasing Female
Participation', Goldman Sachs JBWere Investment Research, Australia.
OECD 2012, 'Gender Equality in Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship: Final Report to the MCM 2012', OECD, Paris.
Sanders, M Hrdlicka, J Hellicar, M Cottrell, D Knox, J 2011 'What stops women from reaching the top? Confronting the
tough issue', Bain & Company, Sydney.
Sandberg, S 2013, 'Lean in: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead', Alfred A.Knope, New York.
Fortune Magazine, May 2013 Warren Buffett is bullish ... on women;
Increasing the number of Women in Senior Executive Positions, Business Council of Australia Report BY Meredith
Hellicar Nov 2013
Graduate Careers Australia (2012), Postgraduate Destinations Report 2011, http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/Research/Resear
chReports/PostgraduateDestinations
Workplace Gender Equity Agency, includes data from the 2013-14 and 2014-15 reporting periods

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