Employment by Kelmeny Fraser
Premium Content  Women are being encouraged to enter male-dominated trades, only to face sexism on a depressingly regular basis, warns an employment lawyer for a major compensation firm. While industry campaigns have spent years enticing lady tradies to pick up the tools in a male-dominated trade, sexual harassment and discrimination are too often the ugly reality of workplaces who pay lip service to boosting diversity while failing to meaningfully confront the power imbalance faced by women on the job, warns Maurice Blackburn principal Giri Sivaraman. Mr Sivaraman, who heads the firm s employment law division in Brisbane, said the reality undermined glossy industry campaigns to promote gender diversity in male-dominated workplaces, and was exposing bosses to the risk of costly legal action for discrimination.
Employment by Kelmeny Fraser
Premium Content  Women are being encouraged to enter male-dominated trades, only to face sexism on a depressingly regular basis, warns an employment lawyer for a major compensation firm. While industry campaigns have spent years enticing lady tradies to pick up the tools in a male-dominated trade, sexual harassment and discrimination are too often the ugly reality of workplaces who pay lip service to boosting diversity while failing to meaningfully confront the power imbalance faced by women on the job, warns Maurice Blackburn principal Giri Sivaraman. Mr Sivaraman, who heads the firm s employment law division in Brisbane, said the reality undermined glossy industry campaigns to promote gender diversity in male-dominated workplaces, and was exposing bosses to the risk of costly legal action for discrimination.