The Australian Census of Women in Leadership measures the status of women on boards and women executive managers in Australia's top 200 organisations listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Applying the business principle of what gets measured, gets done, the Census is designed to establish accurate statistics to enable international benchmarking. Read More

Membership statistics from the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) point to a surge in young women embracing financial planning as a career.  Read More

CERAM’S Human Resources Professor, Michel Ferrary research shows that firms with a higher ratio of women in management have better resisted the financial crisis. The more women on a company's senior management team, the less its share price fell in 2008, according to an analysis of companies from the French CAC 40 stock exchange index. The stock prices of companies led by executive teams with 38% or more women declined less than the CAC 40 average of 42.7%, while stocks of companies with more male-dominated management teams dropped more than the average. Hermès was the only large company whose share price rose (16.8%) and it has the second highest percent of female executives (55%). Read More