OUR REASON WHY
What we know!
What issues we address
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Career off ramping by ex- corporate, professional women, frequently after having children.
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As unpaid carers, these women are unaccounted for in national statistics.
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Untapped community female talent facing barriers to paid contribution.
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External barriers to workforce return means that women compromise on role equivalency and pay to balance family and career needs.
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Women are impacted by low self-confidence and thereby not taking new opportunities.
What we care about
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Supporting other women
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Finding solutions
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Flexibility and work balance
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Creating a sustainable planetary environment
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Equality
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Creating change in people’s lives
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The role of kindness
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A life where women don't have to choose between family and career.
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Health, wellbeing and the equality of these across the globe
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Helping women live fulfilled and meaningful lives
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Women being fully recognised and heard
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For women to realise their worth
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Women getting in touch with their passions, interests and the wider world
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Learning to reclaim their aspirations.
What workforce reforms are needed
A static resume
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Your skills
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Explaining your career gaps
Working 9-5, on site
Learning Management Systems (LMS)
Leveraging the value in your professional and personal network
Your innate capabilites
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Celebrating your career gaps
Working at my best
Massive Open Online Learning
(MOOC)
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What work is about VERSES What work should be about
How you can help
5 YEARS off work
Women take an average five years out of the workforce to care for children or family member.
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11% gender inequity
11% gender inequity in female participation in paid work - 60% female participation verus 71% male participation.
15.3% pay gap
The national gender pay gap is 15.3% and remained between 15% to19% for the past two decades.
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42% return to work
An estimated 246,700 (42%) women had started or returned to work since the birth of their youngest child.