This report argues that women aged between 16 and 65 – Generation F – remain significantly overlooked, under utilised and untapped. Research released today has uncovered a new generation of workers that will rival Generation Y as the solution to the nation’s skills shortage. Despite record education levels and rising numbers of women entering the...

Australia’s boardrooms are closed to women according to the results of the 2006 EOWA Census which show that Australia's top 200 companies have made little progress in increasing the numbers of women in their boardrooms. The report shows there has been only incremental improvement in the number of women board directors (now 8.7%) since the...

Results of the 2005 EOWA annual survey of reporting organisations on the provision of paid paternity leave.

Iain Campbell and Sara Charlesworth provide a descriptive overview of key trends in Australian society affecting work and family. Their discussion of key trends affecting work and family is set out in four main sections: paid work and the paid workforce; families, households and caring responsibilities; combining paid work and family caring responsibilities; preferences and...