Changing The Trajectory – Investing in Women for a Fairer Future. A preview of new research findings.

The ongoing impact of COVID-19 continues to affect women disproportionately, particularly young women. Australians Investing In Women has commissioned further research from Equity Economics to examine the latest data on employment, education and skills through a gender lens. This analysis will build on the research released in April this year, Gender-wise Investing – A Springboard to Australia’s Recovery to help inform the most effective investments to support women as drivers of Australia’s recovery.

This event is presented by Philanthropy Australia and Australians Investing In Women and is open to all PA members and the general public.

Moderator

Catherine Fox - Journalist, Author and Presenter

Catherine Fox is a leading commentator on women and the workforce, an award-winning journalist, author and presenter to audiences around Australia. During a long career with the Financial Review, she edited several sections of the newspaper, and wrote the Corporate Woman column; and she has published five books, including “Stop Fixing Women” which along with her journalism was awarded the 2017 Walkley Award for Women’s Leadership in Media.

Her most recent book “Women Kind” (with co-author Kirstin Ferguson) was launched in 2018 and examines how female solidarity and support is rebooting the global women’s movement. Catherine helped establish the annual Financial Review 100 Women of Influence Awards in 2012 and was named a Women of Influence in 2018; she was a member of the Australian Defence Force Gender Equality Advisory Board, sits on the Australians Investing In Women board, and is co-founder of the Sydney Women’s Giving Circle.

Presenters

Dr Angela Jackson - Lead Economist, Equity Economics 

Angela is lead economist at Equity Economics, with expertise in distributional analysis, economic modelling, labour markets, disability, health, gender, housing and fiscal policy.  

Angela was previously Deputy Chief of Staff to the Australian Minister for Finance and Deregulation, the Hon Lindsay Tanner MP during the Global Financial Crisis. 

She is currently a Non-Executive Director at Royal Melbourne Hospital, National Deputy Chair of the Women in Economics Network, and a Board Member at Gender Equity Victoria.  

Angela holds a Masters in International Health Policy (Health Economics) with Distinction from the London School of Economics and Political Science and has recently completed her PhD on the Economics of Disability in Australia at Monash University. 

Leonora Risse - Economist, and Research Fellow at the Women’s Leadership Institute Australia

Dr Leonora Risse is an economist with interest and expertise in gender equality, labour economics, economic psychology, demographic and population economics, education, disadvantage, and wellbeing.

Her research focuses on understanding gender differences in economic opportunities and outcomes. This includes understanding the gender pay gap, women’s participation in the workforce, women’s under-representation in leadership and the role of attitudes, personality traits and societal norms.

Leonora earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Queensland, and gained public policy experience working as a Senior Research Economist for the Australian Government Productivity Commission.

Leonora is a Research Fellow with the Women’s Leadership Institute Australia and spent time in residence at Harvard University as a Research Fellow with the Women and Public Policy Program in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is currently appointed as a Senior Lecturer in Economics at RMIT University in Melbourne.

Leonora has been actively involved in establishing the Women in Economics Network in Australia and engages regularly with public audiences, government, industry, and community groups on gender equality issues, including identifying evidence-based strategies and applying a gender lens to economic analysis and policy design.

Leonora was named among Apolitical’s 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy in 2021.

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