Analysis: How Australia is failing its highly educated women | jordsbaker
Australian women are among the most highly educated in the world.
“Our qualitative research demonstrates that women who have been thinking of having a child will move sideways or down or into another sector into a position where they’re going to get better paid parental leave, or more flexibility,” she says.“Once people have children, there’s all the data on cutting back days, cutting back hours, staying in positions that are less well remunerated. Lack of flexibility in good jobs with high levels of responsibility means women don’t go for these.
“It’s a jigsaw puzzle,” says Hill. “All these different bits fit together to create a policy architecture that allows women and men to participate, care and work in a way that reflects their aspiration and ambitions.
Women are now dominating the better-paid professional university degrees, Black says. “It’s been taking place over quite some time, and it reached a political tipping point at the last election,” he says.
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