I feel like I am learning a lot about gender at work at the moment. I mentioned after International Women’s Day that I wasn’t entirely comfortable with the message that we were sending to young women that: you might think you’re equal – but mate you’re not, you earn less; you earn less per hour; you earn less over your lifetime; you do a heap of...

A little while back, the fabulous @Jentally (aka Jenny Roberts) approached me via twitter with an opportunity to be on the Advisory Board for their business; Perform HR which provides access to managed HR Services, HR mentoring for new or stand alone HR Managers/new appointed HR Directors and also helps businesses complete HR Projects. At that time Jenny introduced...

And I guess I start with that title because I know I’ve disagreed with women about this in the past, some of whom I have enjoyed the debate and still very much respect their opinions. I guess my first real experience with this was the crustgate scandal, where I said that we could probably move on from a joke about women being worse drivers than men. It’s about...

Last night I was reading ‘HR Monthly’ and again Peter Wilson spoke about the issue of sexual harassment. Yep it’s in the media a lot at the moment due to recent high profile cases and deserves the attention that it’s getting. Any form of bullying and harassment is not ok in my books and I can’t believe that it still happens to the extent that it does. Peter...