Gender and diversity

 
Question 1:
 Does female number is going to increase in the workplace, and are they going will have the opportunities to be in high
managerial positions in the future? Women are responsible for child rearing does that will effect gender divisions and in
workplace? how it will affect the work and the generation?
 Rationale: in Kuwait the men have the opportunities to work in many different places without having high degree such as
police and army. That led the number of females to increase in the workplace and having high degrees and opportunities to
work in high positions and having high salaries but however in Kuwait there is a gender divisions in the workplace.

Question 2:

 How does the future workplaces will value diversity such as, race, gender, and abilities in the workplace? In recent
studies it shows people now a days having high ambitions, so How does people ambition will affect the future workplace?
 Rationale: people like to choose their own lifestyle and have high ambitions now a days, so in the future that will affect
the workplace because there will be no employees that want to work in simple jobs with low salary. And it will be for each
person goal and wishes to access and achieve high goal.

Business reverses women’s gains
Date
November 1, 2012
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Stephanie Peatling
Political Correspondent for the Sun-Herald
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THE number of women being appointed to the boards of major companies has gone backwards with the smallest number selected
since 2010.
Preliminary figures from the Australian Institute of Company Directors shows only 36 women have been appointed this year as
directors on ASX 200 boards.
Last year, 68 female directors were chosen and in 2010, 56 women were appointed to boards.
The director of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency, Helen Conway, said the figures showed the need for
companies to set targets for the appointment of women to leadership positions.
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”Over time this will drive growth in the female talent pipeline and bring about cultural change so that gender equality is
simply seen as business as usual,” Ms Conway said.
There are still 51 boards in the S&P/ASX 200 which do not have any women.
The agency’s annual report on women in leadership and executive positions will be released later this year but Ms Conway
hinted that the progression by women into senior positions would not be cause for ”popping the corks”.
The figures come as the federal government has yet to pass legislation on a new Workplace Gender Equality Act that will
require businesses to report on numbers and pay of male and female employees. The government wants companies to start
reporting from April 1 next year to give it a better picture of how workplaces are addressing gender equality, particularly
in light of the 17.5 per cent pay gap between men and women.
Companies with fewer than 100 employees would be exempt and pay data would not be made publicly available.
The Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency would become the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and given the task
of overseeing the data.
The government has the support of the Greens to pass the legislation in the Senate, but has come up against bills waiting to
be dealt with in the final sitting weeks of the year.
Greens senator Lee Rhiannon said women’s groups were concerned that unless the legislation was passed this year there would
not be sufficient time for companies to get ready for the proposed April start date.
”If the government continues to stall, time will run out for the new reporting requirements to be put in place as planned
for April 1 next year and Australian women will wake up with the nasty feeling the April fools’ joke is on them,” she said.

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