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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJulia Gillard says Covid-led shift to remote working could render some female employees 'invisible'
Julia Gillard says Covid-led shift to remote working could render some female employees invisible
Former PM joins panel discussion of pandemics effect on workplace gender equality and urges bosses not to overlook women
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Julia Gillard said unequal division of domestic labour could lead to women working from home more and missing out on the visibility of being in the office. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP
Former prime minister Julia Gillard says women risk becoming invisible behind the screen during the Covid-led transition to remote working and has urged bosses to ensure female employees working from home arent overlooked for promotion. Australias first female prime minister on Wednesday also welcomed the record number of women in Anthony Albaneses cabinet, calling it very important as the Labor ministry was sworn in. As people have gone back to work and the rigour of lockdowns has ended, has this given us an opportunity to see change in the workplace? Gillard asked a panel of gender equality experts at an event hosted by her Global Institute for Womens Leadership. Gillard said on Wednesday that increased flexibility was fantastic for workers, but with women disproportionately taking on more domestic labour, they could more often work from home and potentially miss out on opportunities given to office-based employees.
Theres a risk that if nothing else changes in five years time, what well see is a pattern where women have chosen, particularly in the family formation stage, disproportionately to work from home, Gillard said. And men, who have been much more regular attenders at the office that very visibility, if nothing else changes, will show in whos been considered for promotion, sponsorship, mentorship. The women will be kind of invisible behind the screen.
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We know weve got to monitor the effects of this hybrid working on things we already track, around gender pay gap, promotions, where people have legitimate concerns.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/02/julia-gillard-says-covid-led-shift-to-remote-working-could-render-some-female-employees-invisible
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Julia Gillard says Covid-led shift to remote working could render some female employees 'invisible' (Original Post)
niyad
Jun 2022
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Novara
(5,866 posts)1. She's not wrong
Hekate
(90,956 posts)2. I hate being right about stuff like this...
I said at the outset that womens career progress could be set back a generation.