However, Professor Carol Kulik from UniSA said these current targets are drawing a long bow when it comes to improving women’s representation in senior roles. We often refer to this as the ‘trickle-down effect’.”Ĭurrent government gender targets look to reduce the gender gap in the workforce by 25 per cent by 2025, as well as maintaining the target of 50 per cent representation of women on Australian Government boards. “Research shows that if we boost the number of women at executive levels, we increase the number of women in the ‘executive feeder’ levels below.
“Women constitute the majority of the Australian public sector workforce, but their representation in senior roles is not proportional,” she said. Lead Researcher at the University of South Australia, Dr Jill Gould, said it will take far more than just having gender targets to boost women’s equity in Australian senior roles. Despite recent efforts to improve gender diversity and increase the number of women in positions of power, only 19 per cent of CEOs and less than a third of key management positions are female.
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