Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) released a report in April 2018 which examines key ideas and concepts of inequality, including inequality of opportunity and the future of inequality. 

The report examines distribution of benefits from Australia’s prolonged period of economic growth; whether inequality has increased in Australia during this period; and where policy interventions could assist. Experts from a wide range of areas contributed to the in-depth report. Read the Report Overview and recommendations.

UNE Business School’s Professor Alison Sheridan contributed the chapter ‘Inequality in the workplace’ and participated in the panel discussion at the Melbourne launch on 20 April.  

Exploring workplace inequality, Professor Sheridan focuses on gender. She says while 2017 saw the spotlight drawn to gender pay disparities, Australia’s dismal record in addressing inequality in the workplace will continue, with a real cost to national productivity, until the fundamental problem of the undervaluing of traditionally ‘female’ work and occupations achieves a more equal distribution of women and men as well as increased participation rates of disadvantaged groups in the labour market.

Alison noted how impressed she was with the engaging and insightful questions from the audience, reinforcing the important role CEDA plays in promoting informed debate about the questions that matter.

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Professor Alison Sheridan in the panel, with Dr Laura Perry (Murdoch University), Patricia Faulkner AO (Jesuit Social Services) and Melinda Cileno (CEDA).

The panel discussed findings and took questions from the audience.