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Women still hit glass ceiling: survey
29-Apr-2008
Many Australian women feel their workplaces are "boys' clubs" which frustrate their ambitions for promotion and do not properly support a healthy work/life balance, new research has found.



A new Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA) survey has found over a third of women left their last job because of frustrations over a lack of career progression.

A quarter of women surveyed did not feel their current employer provided them with a career path and 16 per cent did not believe they were given sufficient learning and development opportunities, the survey found.

Almost half (45 per cent) of women believed their employers did not support work/life balance and 42 per cent believed they did not have access to flexible work conditions.

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