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Charlie Gunningham

CEO, Business News

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Digital Disruption: New Opportunities for Women in the workplace

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I’m a digital guy

• School teacher 13 years

• eBusiness cofounder 13 years

• Business media… 3 years & counting

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The night we dined with Dame Edna

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Great things happen slowly

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Revenue Trends 2011 -> 15

• Print ads - 30%

• Digital ads + 300%

• Event income ~ stable

“in print, online and in person”

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Web Traffic HIGHER post pay wall!

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Digital trends in Australia

• Disruption anytime, anywhere • 25% of WA GDP under attack

• “Always on” - parenting, stress

• Nature of ‘the job’ changes

• … opportunities and challenges #ideasboom

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Economics of Gender

• 61% women in workforce (men 77%)

• Men earn 18% more (in WA, 25% more)

• 12% of Boards, 3% of CEOs are women

… yet 50.8% of population

=> Costs 20% GDP, $300bn/year

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Social Justice of Gender

• 1.4 million women face physical violence

• 4,300+ violence restraining orders (WA women, 2015)

• Assault at work, public transport

• 59% of law students are women (WA)

… but only 15% of legal partners & barristers

… 20-40% judges

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Source: Women’s Report Card 2015

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Innovation / Trends

• Importance of STEM

• Subscriptions (SaaS) • it’s all about the base

• Paid parental leave for all

• Returning to work

• Experienced, 9.30am-2.30pm, 3-4 days

• Pt-time top level execs

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More women

More men

Source: Women’s

Report Card 2015

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More women

Job Disruption

More men

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Maintaining the Effort

• ‘Filling the Pool’ recommendations

• Education, Economics, Equality

Examples: • Male Champions of Change (MCC) • Springboard Accelerator

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DO…

1. Assume you are under digital attack

2. Get men involved

3. Think how you can use digital

1. promote equality

2. understand customers’ needs

3. lower costs / new revenue

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DON’T

1. Carry on as before

2. Think markets will be the same

3. Ignore/be arrogant

4. Think digital transformation is easy

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Charlie Gunningham

CEO, Business News

@chazgunningham

Digital Disruption: New Opportunities for Women in the workplace