Event Details
Webinar: Gender Equity – How Organisations Use Gender Data to Drive Change
Location: Via Zoom Link (registration required)
Date: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Time: 12:00pm – 12:40pm AEDT (2:00pm-2:40pm NZDT)
Our Gender Equity Webinar was inspired by the UN’s International Equal Pay Day, which was celebrated for the first time last year. This day recognises the longstanding and ongoing efforts towards the achievement of equal pay for work of equal value. While equal pay for men and women has been widely endorsed, applying it in practice has been difficult. Across all regions, women are paid less than men, with the gender pay gap estimated at 23 per cent globally.
In order to ensure that no one is left behind, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) address the need to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. Furthermore, the SDGs promote decent work and economic growth by seeking full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value. Mainstreaming of a gender perspective is crucial in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
We will be hearing from the Research and Analytics Executive Manager from Women’s Gender Equity Agency (WGEA), Dr Janin Bredehoeft.
Dr Bredehoeft will be discussing WGEA data, how organisations use gender data to drive change and in particular, what drives the reduction in the gender pay gap.
Speaker Bio
Dr Janin Bredehoeft leads the team that is responsible for data management, analysis and benchmarking research and education functions of the Women’s Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). She has also been integral to the development of WGEA’s new data management system, including the design of data visualisations and the creation of the data strategy. A key aspect of Janin’s role is unlocking the potential of WGEA’s world leading dataset through internal and external collaboration to enhance gender equality in workplaces.
Janin is also completing her PhD at the University of Sydney; analysing the developments of academic labour markets in Germany and Australia. Janin has worked in the Agency since 2015 in a range of roles focusing on research, data analysis and education.
Janin holds a Master of International Relations, a Master of European Studies and a Bachelor of Honours in Economics. She started her career as a nurse specialising in intensive care.
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