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Everyday Bias and the Gender Pay Gap: How Subtle Stereotypes Reinforce Inequity

The gender pay gap remains a significant challenge in workplaces across Australia, with women earning, on average, 13.4% less than men for full-time work, according to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). While structural and systemic factors play a role,...

Flexible Working: The Danger of “Face Time” as a Performance Metric

Flexible working has become a cornerstone of modern workplaces, providing opportunities to foster diversity and inclusion (D&I) while addressing the evolving needs of a diverse workforce. However, while its advantages are clear, flexible work also presents...

Beyond Performative Allyship: Practising Everyday Inclusion

Genuine inclusion manifests in tangible actions, conscious decisions, and thoughtful interactions. Here's what inclusion looks like in the day-to-day: A Culture of Listening and Respect One of the hallmarks of inclusion is active listening. Whether in meetings or...
Respect at Work: Is Your Sexual Harassment Training Fit for Purpose?

Respect at Work: Is Your Sexual Harassment Training Fit for Purpose?

Alongside the implementation of policies and practices for managing and responding to workplace misconduct, employers have traditionally sought to mitigate the risk of bullying, harassment, discrimination, and sexual misconduct through compliance-based training, often...

How to call out sexism or racism at work

How to call out sexism or racism at work

People who have witnessed a behaviour or remark that made them feel uncomfortable will often say that they wanted to say something at the time or later regretted not saying anything, but in the moment they were shocked, confused, unsure of how to respond, or didn't...

Is Your Grievance Process Trauma-Informed?

Is Your Grievance Process Trauma-Informed?

Understanding trauma Traumatic experiences are events that threaten or violate one’s safety, health, and integrity. Traumatic experiences may be directly experienced or witnessed. They may be primarily physical experiences, as with physical assaults and sexual abuse,...

Respect at Work: Best Practice Grievance Processes

Respect at Work: Best Practice Grievance Processes

When considering the prevalence of workplace sexual harassment and the scale of underreporting through formal channels, it becomes apparent just how important it is for employers to ensure their reporting and investigation processes promote speaking up if they are to...

The defining traits of inclusive leaders

The defining traits of inclusive leaders

Inclusion is an active management strategy for addressing barriers to participation so that employees with different backgrounds, skills, experience, and work styles are both able and willing to contribute fully to work practices and decision...

Characteristics of Leading D&I Programs

Characteristics of Leading D&I Programs

Your D&I program is leading only if it is... For everyone. You define diversity as all individual differences and recognise that aspects of a person's identity intersect to create unique experiences and sources of value for your organisation. Contemporary. You...

Advancing Diversity Metrics – Measuring Inclusion

Advancing Diversity Metrics – Measuring Inclusion

The management adage, “What gets measured, gets done” is particularly relevant for diversity and inclusion. Because the biases that perpetuate workplace inequality are largely unconscious and automatic, shifting an organisation’s talent management paradigm from...

Inclusive Recruitment: Optimise Your Candidate Pool

Inclusive Recruitment: Optimise Your Candidate Pool

A lack of qualified applicants with diverse backgrounds is a reason commonly given by recruiters to explain the underrepresentation of women and minority groups in candidate pools, shortlists and hiring decisions. Yet, while employers blame a narrow talent pool,...

Inclusion Fundamentals: Fostering Respect

Inclusion Fundamentals: Fostering Respect

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel, Maya Angelou. Respect exists when employees perceive that they are valued by the organisation...

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