Sydney, Aug 28 (ANI): A new study has shown that more than half of the senior executive teams of Australia's top 200 listed companies are completely female-free zones.
A Sun-Herald analysis has further revealed that 10 of those companies, leaders in their field, have not once been recorded as hiring a female candidate at that level in any of six Women in Leadership censuses.
The censuses, which have been conducted over the past decade by the federal government's Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency, revealed that there are some disputable figures with some companies pointing to one or two women in senior positions.
The director of the agency, Helen Conway, said women had a right to feel "disappointed" with the little progress that has been made so far towards gender equality in the workplace.
"What that has done is that people have started to get their rear ends into gear. Frankly, directors don't want to be seen to be failing," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted her as saying.
Just 3 percent of the CEOs, 8 percent of senior executives and 13 percent of board members of Australia's top companies are women, despite four decades of campaigning for equal rights at work.
The top 10 companies are:
Downer EDI (engineering)
Ansell (rubber manufacturer)
Billabong (clothing retailer)
Gunns (paper pulp mill)
James Hardie Industries (building products manufacturer)
One Steel (steel manufacturer)
Lihir Gold (gold miner, recently taken over by Newcrest Mining)
Toll Holdings (transport and logistics)
Westfield (shopping centres)
Paperlinx (paper merchant). (ANI)
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