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In 2013, CEDA surveyed the business community, primarily its members and past Women in Leadership event attendees, to help identify barriers to equality of opportunity.
In CEDA's 2013 Women in Leadership survey, respondents were asked to rank in order of importance the following barriers to women's equality in the workplace. The survey results:
1. Workplace culture
2. Lack of female leaders
3. Gender stereotypes
4. Lack of flexible work practices
5. Affordability and accessibility of childcare
6. Sexism
7. Lack of mentors
8. Societal expectations regarding gender roles (e.g. household work/childcare)
As part of the survey, respondents were also given the option of adding any other significant barriers and the following were recurring themes:
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What would contribute most to improving women's equality in the workforce?
As part of the survey, participants also supplied their personal experiences of gender issues in the workplace.
The following are all 119 individual responses to: What are the other most significant barriers to women's equality in the workplace?
As part of CEDA's 2013 Women in Leadership survey, respondents provided their personal experiences of gender issues in the workplace.
Read more Leadership | Diversity | Inclusion February 23, 2017As part of CEDA's 2013 Women in Leadership survey, respondents were asked what would contribute most to improving women's equality in the workforce.
Read more Leadership | Diversity | Inclusion September 19, 2011CEDA's publication titled Women in Leadership: Looking Below the Surface examines unconscious bias against women in the workplace. The publication was launched in September 2011 in Melbourne by Federal Minister for the Status of Women, the Hon. Kate Ellis.
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