Treasury chief Martin Parkinson's recent announcement that Australia's
top economic agency would adopt a long-term target of making 40% of
senior executives women was big news, but perhaps not before time. The
movement of women into top leadership roles in Australian organisations
has been excruciatingly slow. And there's no single silver bullet
solution, insists outspoken blogger Jen Dalitz, the globally recognised
SheEO of gender balance consultancy sphinxx. To mark International
Women's Day, Dalitz – who advises and mentors leadership teams at many
of Australia's largest companies – explores some of the controversial
equalising issues, including quotas and mandatory reporting, and the
undermining proliferation of unconscious bias.