More part-time bosses and co-CEOs could keep women in leadership and narrow Australia’s pay gap

Women account for just one in five board chairs or chief executives of Australian companies. Photograph: Maskot/Getty Images. Posed by models

More part-time bosses and “co-CEOs” could keep women in leadership and narrow Australia’s gender pay gap, the federal government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency says.

WGEA warned resistance to gender equality was growing and urged employers to make management more flexible to reduce the gender pay gap, where women earn $0.79 for every $1 a man makes on average.