Event description
Join us over a lunchtime Masterclass where we will hear from a leading social entrepreneur, Div Pillay. About this event
Div Pillay, who is changing the dialogue of gender equality in Australia to include culturally diverse women. She will showcase how to create equity and equality for professional women from migrant, refugee, asylum seeker heritages through a fire-side conversation with her clients, a C-suite leader, Coretta Bessi (Chief Procurement Officer at Westpac) who has advocated for culturally diverse leader, (Zoe Chernih, Strategic Partnerships Manager, Westpac).
Div Pillay has focussed on disaggregated gender data collection and analysis for the last 10 years with various clients in the public, private and not-for-profit sector. Some consistent findings are that, while the gender pay gap is around 14%, for culturally diverse women, the gender ethnic pay gap is around 33% - 36%. These women are severely underrepresented in executive roles (le