Last week Queensland Premier Anastasia Palaszczuk announced that over the next year the Queensland Government are going to have a strong focus on female recruitment, specifically the recruitment of women as leaders.
Ms Palaszczuk plans to build on the actions put in place by former labor Queensland Premier Peter Beattie, who in 2007 launched a ‘women on boards’ website where women interested in board positions could find information on how to apply.
Ms Palaszczuk, along with her deputy and cabinet are planning to start heavily advertising for expressions of interest to build a register of women to fill vacancies as they arise across government bodies.
Currently there are 320 Queensland government bodies, but only 31 per cent of those board positions are filled by women.
This is a key statistic that Ms Palaszcuk says the Queensland Government wish to change in order for the state to have equal gender representation.
“It is time for Queensland to benefit from the wealth of untapped experience, that more female leaders will bring and also for the Government to set a positive example for industry to follow” She said at Parliament House last Thursday.
As of April 2015, 20.4 per cent of ASX 200 boards within Australia are made up of women, while a total of 30 boards within the ASX 200 still do not have any female representatives. However the number of women appointed to ASX 200 boards has increased since 2012; 41 women were appointed in 2012 while 53 women were appointed in 2015. Hopefully this number can continue to grow as the Queensland Government roll out their ‘women on board’ initiative.
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