There are more women in leadership – but here’s the breakdown of how men are earning up to $100,000 more

A rise in the number of women in senior management positions is the good news in WGEA’s latest survey of Australian workplaces, but blink and you might still miss seeing such women in your office.

Women account for 16.3% of chief executives and heads of businesses in the 12,000 employers providing data to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), and 28.5% of key management personnel. That’s up from 15.4% for chief executives in 2014/15 and 27.4% for KMPs.

While seeing an increase is a plus, they’re relatively minor jumps given the amount of rhetoric from our largest employers on the need to support and nurture female talent.