BCEC|WGEA Gender Equity Insights 2024 online report launch
Read the new report, Gender Equity Insights 2024: The changing nature of part-time work in Australia
Read the media release, New report finds the changing nature of work provides new opportunities for workplace gender equality
Watch the online national report launch on YouTube here, Gender Equity Insights 2024
Join the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC) and the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) for the national online report launch for Gender Equity Insights 2024 on Monday 9 September 2024.
Part-time work arrangements have traditionally provided people the opportunity to balance work with other responsibilities, enabling a broader constituency of individuals to participate in the workforce.
But we also know that working part-time can limit pay and career progression resulting in long-term economic disadvantages for women, including lower lifetime earnings and reduced retirement savings.
Despite its historical significance, the orthodox concept of part-time work is being re-evaluated in light of emerging work practices and employee preferences that attach increased value to flexibility, autonomy and the ability for work to align with responsibilities at home.
For this ninth report in the Gender Equity Insights series from BCEC and WGEA, we take a detailed look at the incidence and evolution of part-time work in Australia, examine its relevance to the future of work, and explore the potential for part-time work options to be superseded by more fluid and adaptable work arrangements.
Hosted by Angela Priestly, Co Founder of Women’s Agenda, hear from expert panellists Nicola Campbell, Inclusion and Diversity Lead for Accenture Australia and New Zealand; Katrina McPhee, Group Executive Advocacy & Communication and Chief of Staff of Aware Super; Penelope Cottrill, Executive Manager, Education and Research with WGEA; and Professor Alan Duncan, Director, BCEC.
Lead authors Alan Duncan and Dr Silvia Salazar, Senior Research Fellow, BCEC, will present the latest research findings from the BCEC|WGEA Gender Equity Insights 2024 report, with WGEA CEO Hon. Mary Wooldridge to share insights on the current gender equality landscape for Australian employers, and Lauri Williams, Chief Controls Officer, Bankwest, will give opening remarks.
Date: Monday 9 September 2024
Time: 11.00am – 12.30pm (AWST) / 1.00pm – 2.30pm (AEST)
Platform: Microsoft Teams
Cost: This event is free but registrations are essential
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If you have any special requirements to enable you to participate in this event please email bcec@curtin.edu.au or ring BCEC on +618 9266 1744.
About the speakers
Nicola Campbell, Inclusion and Diversity Lead, Accenture Australia and New Zealand
Nicola Campbell (she/her) is the Inclusion and Diversity Lead for Accenture Australia and New Zealand and is based in Naarm (Melbourne).
Following her completion of a Masters in HR Management, Nicola developed her passion for Inclusion, Diversity and Equity as she progressed through a variety of HR roles in her 14 years at Accenture Australia (Professional Services organisation). Prior to that her HR experience was within the Hospitality and Healthcare industries.
As a single mum of one child, with a second arriving soon, Nicola is grateful to have been able to access both PT and flexible work options in her career and is determined to increase the accessibility of part time and flexible working options for everyone.
Penelope Cottrill, Executive Manager, Education and Research, Workplace Gender Equality Agency
Penelope is the Executive Manager, Education and Research at the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, translating research and evidence into guidance and resources that employers can use to understand and improve workplace gender equality in their organisation.
Penelope’s background is in consulting to organisations to execute change and improve performance through organisation design, leadership and capability. She has led award-winning programs across a range of sectors and held leadership roles in leading consulting organisations.
Recently, Penelope has researched the gendered effects of flexible work and she applies behavioural science in her work. Penelope is also a Director of Safe Steps, a Victorian family violence response service.
Professor Alan Duncan, Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre
Professor Alan Duncan is Director of the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre and John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University.
Alan’s research is motivated by a passion to influence public debate on economic, social health and public policy issues through rigorous, evidence-based research. He is ranked among the top five per cent of economists globally, and has served on senior advisory panels and boards for government and public sector organisations in Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe and the US, advising on areas including tax policy, pensions, labour markets and household welfare.
Alan was awarded the prestigious Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society in 2000, and was appointed John Curtin Distinguished Professor in 2020 in recognition of his research scholarship and sustained contribution to Curtin University and the wider community.
Katrina McPhee, Group Executive Advocacy & Communication and Chief of Staff, Aware Super
Katrina joined Aware Super in 2019. As Group Executive, Advocacy and Communication and Chief of Staff, she is responsible for driving alignment and performance for the Fund.
Katrina has 23 years of financial services experience and has held leadership roles across business development, strategy, transformation and operations across superannuation and funds management. She also worked as a financial planner for five years.
At the Fund, her role covers External Affairs, government and stakeholder relations and internal communications. She also runs the Office of the CEO, with a keen focus on her home state of Victoria.
Angela Priestly, Co Founder, Women’s Agenda
Angela Priestley is the Co Founder of Women’s Agenda, a daily news publication for women focusing on business, tech, politics, health, leadership and climate.
A journalist turned media entrepreneur, she also heads up the parent company Agenda Media, including its growing network of podcasts and other media assets.
Outside of her media work, Angela sits on the board of the Women’s And Girls’ Emergency Centre, is an advisor for ActionAid’s Arise Fund supporting women’s leadership in climate resilience, and a mother of three boys.
Dr Silvia Salazar, Senior Research Fellow, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre
Silvia Salazar is an applied micro-econometric researcher specialised in development economics, gender and ethnic inequality as well as public policy. She obtained her PhD at the Paris School of Economics and she has previously held academic and teaching positions at the University of Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, the University of Paris 13 and the Dom Bosco Catholic University.
Her research focuses on the analysis of household well-being and consumption levels. She analyses the factors affecting household welfare such as monetary expenditures and time consumption in leisure activities and domestic production.
Silvia also has research experience in income inequalities, gender and Indigenous discrimination in the labour market.
Lauri Williams, Chief Controls Officer, Bankwest
Lauri Williams has a career spanning over 35 years in Retail Banking across the UK and Australia. Lauri joined Bankwest more than two decades ago and has progressed her career to join the Bankwest Leadership Team as the Chief Controls Officer.
Lauri’s career trajectory includes a diverse array of leadership roles, with a recent focus on operational and compliance risk management. Lauri’s expertise also spans operations, human resources, project management, small business, and retail branch distribution.
Lauri values Bankwest’s continued commitment to meeting changing customer needs, and she has been instrumental in steering numerous high-performing teams and supporting the delivery of transformation change to deliver better outcomes for customers. At the heart of Lauri’s professional drive is a focus on nurturing talent and shaping risk culture within the organisation to ensure long-term sustainable business performance to the benefit of Bankwest’s customers, colleagues and the community.
Hon Mary Wooldridge, Chief Executive Officer, Workplace Gender Equality Agency
As CEO of the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Mary Wooldridge leads the Agency in driving gender equality in workplaces ensuring that women and men are equally represented, valued and rewarded.
Mary brings to the role a wealth of experience from a distinguished career in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Mary served from 2006 to 2020 in the Victorian Parliament, including a term as Minister for Mental Health, Community Services and Women’s Affairs.
As Minister, Mary worked to implement the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010-2022 and was instrumental in establishing Our Watch, the national family violence prevention agency.
Mary was the Minister responsible for signing Victoria up to the National Disability Insurance Scheme. She established the Victorian Commission for Children and Young People, including the nation’s first Aboriginal Commissioner, Parkville College – an award-winning Public School in Youth Justice Centres and Australia’s first Mental Health Complaints Commissioner and the Family Drug Treatment Court.
The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre team acknowledges the Wadjuk Nyungar people as the traditional owners of the land on which the Centre is situated.