The annual Male Champions of Change Impact Report, one of the world’s largest voluntary disclosures on gender equality in the workplace, shows collective year-on-year improvements.
The report details progress and outcomes in achieving gender equality, advancing more women into leadership positions and building respectful and inclusive working environments.
More than 230 CEO and board-level leaders participate, including the 21 Property Male Champions of Change who lead some 35,000 employees.
Elizabeth Broderick AO, founder of Male Champions of Change, says the report shows the immense power of organisations acting together to shift entrenched workplace systems.
“What we’ve found is that making work more accessible and inclusive for women is delivering wider benefits for organisations, teams and employees,” Broderick says.
For example, 89.2 per cent of Male Champions of Change members now provide flexible access to parental leave, and 88.1 per cent of members have adopted workplace flexibility strategies, which can “build employee engagement and improve workforce participation amongst a wide range of groups who might otherwise be excluded”.
At an aggregate level, Male Champions of Change members are well ahead of the national averages for many lead indicators in the latest Workplace Gender Equality Agency scorecard. For example, 77 per cent of MCC organisations are conducting and acting on regular pay equity audits compared to 44.7 per cent of organisations that report to WGEA.
Specific Property Male Champions of Change highlights include:
- 0% of members recorded women’s representation in promotions of at least 40%
- Members achieved gender balance or an increase in women’s representation across 80.4% of employment categories in 2019
- 6% women’s representation achieved overall across the group, compared to 40.1% in 2015
- 90% of members now have mainstreamed flexible working strategies in place
- 85% of members have flexible parental leave policies in place
- 100% of members have conducted a gender pay gap analysis and taken action or will commence or complete by 2020
- 100% of members have a formal policy or strategy for preventing and addressing sexual harassment.
The Property Council established the Property Male Champions of Change in 2015. Convened by former national president Carol Schwartz AO, Property Male Champions of Change builds on the Property Council’s diversity program.
“To stay competitive over time, we need access to the best people and a range of capabilities,” Schwartz says. “
If we are only tapping into 50 per cent of the talent pool, we are clearly putting the performance and sustainability of our organisations at risk.”
Download the 2019 Male Champions of Change Impact Report (page 74 onwards details PMCC’s focus and areas of impact).