April 29th, 2021 By David Knox 2 commentsFiled under: News,
ABC News has achieved equal representation of female and male interviewees and commentators in its coverage in March.
In March ABC News achieved 51% female voices, with three-quarters of the 48 participating editorial teams achieving 50:50 or better. When tracking began, less than a third of teams were achieving this.
ABC was one of 41 media organisations around the world to join in BBC’s international 50:50 Project to achieve equal representation in its news coverage.
David Anderson, ABC Managing Director, says: “As the national public broadcaster, the ABC has a special obligation to lead the way on gender equality in the Australia media and ensure our news coverage fairly represents our society. Also, including a full range of voices and perspectives simply makes our content better.
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New CASA boss Pip Spence. Image: WEN
A changing of the guard at Australia’s aviation safety regulator has seen the national government appoint a departmental deputy secretary as the agency’s first female chief executive.
Pip Spence is due to start as chief executive and director of aviation safety in the next few weeks after working as deputy secretary of the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications.
The appointment to what has often been a controversial role is for up to five years.
She will be joined in August by Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin, who will head the regulator’s board for a three-year term.
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+ March 12, 2021 ACHIEVING gender equality could be delayed by 51 years as women were found to be more heavily impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, a report produced by W20 in collaboration with Accenture Research and Quilt.AI showed.
Findings of the survey confirmed that the pandemic has had a negative impact on most people – but women have consistently been hit harder across countries, age groups and lifestyle indicators.
Women have seen their earnings decline almost two-thirds more sharply than men, dropping by 16.5 percent on average since the pandemic began, compared with the 10.1 percent drop for men.
Five percent of the women respondents when the pandemic struck are now unemployed, higher compared to men with just 2.8 percent.