FACT: Companies with more women in senior management financially outperform companies with proportionally fewer women at the top.
FACT: Companies with the highest representation of women on their senior management teams had a 35 percent higher ROE and a 34 percent higher TRS than did companies with the lowest women's representation.
FACT: Women are a primary driver of labour market growth.
Women in the FIRST YEAR OF MOTHERHOOD are five times more likely to suffer mental illness than at any other stage in their life cycle, and 16 times more likely to develop a serious, psychotic illness. Source: Psychiatrist Jane Price as reported in Susan Maushart, The Mask of Motherhood, 2006
Mothers who WORK FOR PAY not only have higher self-esteem but appear to have greater emotional reserves for dealing with their children as well. Source: Susan Maushart, The Mask of Motherhood, 2006
Women who RETURNED TO WORK before their child was 18 mths old reported fewer symptoms of depression than their stay-at-home peers. Source: Cowan & Cowan 1992, When Partners Become Parents: the Big Life Change for Couples, New York: Basic Books
Women who have the OPPORTUNITY to talk about what motherhood is really like, feel more equipped to back themselves and their abilities. Source: Karen Miles Pty Ltd
MOTHERS who work full-time have worse health, higher levels of psychological distress and poorer quality relationships with their partner than part-time working mothers. A government-funded research report reveals that mothers are healthiest when they work 16 to 24 hours a week compared with all other categories of mothers. The likelihood of mothers having more difficulties or of not coping increases as their work hours increases. Source: Australian Institute of Family Studies
FATHERS who work full-time and who had infants were putting in an average of 46.1 hours a week. Fathers have higher well-being levels if they work shorter full-time hours. Source: Australian Institute of Family Studies
Extracts from Keeping MumTM and the business case for Female Talent by Karen Miles www.karenmiles.com.au |
