Next time you have a meeting dominated by men, consider how it is affecting homelessness | Ben Burge and Catharine Lumby

We need to recognise our contribution to economic and social factors that render many women less financially self-sufficient than men

There’s a wonderful New Yorker cartoon that shows a woman seated at a conference table with five men. The man chairing the committee says: “That’s an excellent suggestion, Ms Smith. Perhaps one of the men here would like to make it.”

When we think about gendered bias in workplaces we naturally focus on what happens to women at work. But it’s equally important to understand how discrimination affects women in daily lives and well into their futures.

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