Gender Equality in Australian Workplaces: Snapshot and Promotion Strategies

Date: Thursday, 20 March 2025
Time: 12.30pm-2.00pm
Venue: RACV, 501 Bourke Street, Melbourne Victoria, 3000
Catering: coffee/tea & lunch provided (dietary requirements confirmed after registration)
Speaker: Dr Samone McCurdy, Capacity Building Manager, Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA)

Gender equality and diversity are critical to business success, helping to spark innovation, improve productivity, and foster employee well-being. With recent updates to reporting requirements in Australia for businesses over 100 people, now is the time to update your knowledge and capability in this area.

Join us for a practical and actionable session with Dr Samone McCurdy, Capacity Building Executive Manager at WGEA. Samone is an experienced gender equality strategist and researcher, with a career spanning public and private sectors. Samone brings expertise in gender equality programming, strategy, and leadership capability development, including her work on Victoria Police’s first gender equality strategy.

• Key stats on gender equality and its impact on business success.
• Support your organisation in meeting WGEA reporting requirements.
• 10 strategies to drive immediate improvements in workplace equality.
• New insights on enhancing attraction strategies and optimising the selection process in recruitment.
• The business case for gender diversity and how to create gender equal workplaces.
• Practical tips to help middle managers promote gender equality across teams.
• Key innovations for gender-equal recruitment

This event is sponsored by CarbonInvoice. CarbonInvoice helps Infront Sports measure and mitigate any carbon emissions associated with the work we do. Learn more here.