Women account for less than 10 per cent of Australia’s senior managers and companies must do more to address this inequality, business leaders say.
A new report, Guidelines for Gender Balance Performing and Reporting Australia, was launched on Wednesday to advise businesses on how to achieve a cultural change in gender equality…article
The news that HM Revenue & Customs used privileges granted to it under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act of 2000 (Ripa) to investigate Osita Mba, the lawyer and whistleblower who drew attention to the Goldman Sachs tax settlement (among other cases) is deeply worrying for a number of reasons.
First, as I have learned during the time I have known Mba, he is a deeply ethical man. He may have broken ranks precisely because he felt the law was not being complied with, but I am sure he was wise enough to have known that the case would have fallen apart if he broke the law in the process. Yet HMRC seemingly failed to appreciate that. Was the possibility that Mba might have acted entirely ethically and within constraints he knew existed beyond HMRC’s comprehension? We should all worry about ethics being degraded within the HMRC. Article
Elvira Nabiullina will be in a position that many central-bank chiefs can only envy because she will have ample room to boost lending and growth, using conventional tools. The central bank’s crucial lending rate is 8.25 percent, compared with the near-zero rates in the U.K., the U.S. and the euro area. Article
The pay divide between men and women has widened by another 80c an hour since the turn of the millennium.
Women now earn an average $3.90 an hour less than men across all industries, down from an average $3.08 less in 2000, according to Weekend Herald calculations of Statistics New Zealand figures…article
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…“Although 35 per cent of women are employed in the agriculture sector, and 44 per cent of the country’s female headed households are involved in agriculture activities, only 18 per cent of rural plots are managed by female farmers,” said Ms. Marie-Nelly. “Boosting women’s agricultural productivity in Nigeria will require not only giving women access to land, but more critically improved access to finance as well as valuable information“..article 
Transparency may be the mode of the day, but this Russian divorce makes you wonder. Article
Perhaps the company reflects everything that is wrong about American business. Article
American universities graduate more women than men, and women comprise just under half the US workforce. Yet women remain largely missing from the top echelons of corporate America.
Fewer than 25 of Fortune 500 corporations are headed by women…article 
Yeung is accused of handling the proceeds of crime over a seven-year period before buying control of Birmingham City for 81.5 million pounds ($130 million) in 2009. The case comes to trial as the number of suspicious transaction reports filed to Hong Kong authorities by banks and others required to do so doubled to 23,282 last year from a decade ago. Article
“It seems that larger and larger sums are being converted in money laundering,” Judge Esther Toh said in January in a separate case when she sentenced a Chinese high-school dropout to 10 and a half years in prison for laundering HK$13 billion through a Hong Kong bank over eight months.
Five years after its housing boom turned to bust, Spanish unemployment hit a record high of 27.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013. It’s almost too horrible to comprehend, but 19.5 percent of the total workforce has not had a job in the past six months; 15.3 percent have not in the past year; and 9.2 percent have not in the past two years. Article
