Gender balance isn’t a “nice to have” – it’s a strategy that builds value, strengthens leadership pipelines and helps organisations ride out economic shocks.
A decade into the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre and Workplace Gender Equality Agency Gender Equity Insights series, the evidence is overwhelming that companies moving towards gender-balanced leadership outperform their peers.
This latest analysis confirms the power of gender equity in leadership, with balanced executive teams lifting company value by up to 12 per cent – worth between $70 and $120 million for medium-sized firms valued at between $1 billion and $5 billion.
That’s real money, and it’s being left on the table by organisations that are slow to act.
This latest report lands at a turning point – employer-level gende