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FUTURE
Ahead of this month’s Global Summit of Women,
we asked three female CEOs to share their
hopes and advice for the future
CREATING FLEXIBLE
WORKPLACES THAT
SUPPORT WOMENCEO and managing director
of property group Mirvac
Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz on her
company’s people-friendly
policies that promote
diversity and create a happy,
productive workforce.
“The property industry has
always been male-dominated,
but this has provided a unique
opportunity to drive change
so that the unusual becomes
the norm. Now, it’s normal
for our employees to have
flexible working; it’s a given
that we have gender pay parity
and that we have 50 per cent
female board representation.
It’s also accepted that new
parents are ofered 20 weeks
paid leave. We are very
focused on flexible working
and now over 75 per cent of
all Mirvac employees have
some form of flexibility in their
working arrangements. We are
also passionately committed
to gender equity and have
achieved that by implementing
pay parity across our roles and
creating support programs for
people dealing with domestic
violence. The key I have found
is to persist until innovation
becomes convention. And it’s
my hope that gender equality
becomes convention across all
industries and all workplaces.”40 %
of the jobs we
have today won’t
exist in 20 years*Women will
have to wait217 ye a r s
for the pay gap
to close†By 2030
we will have drone tea
trays that make
tea and deliver it
from the kitchen**@WORK