Earning Power
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley March 26, 2025
Author Roxanne Calder
Distributor: Wiley
ISBN: 978-1394313433
Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition
Release Date: March 24, 202
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Breaking Barriers and Building Wealth for Women
Discrimination, gender bias and the one million dollars’ women lose over the course of their career, because of the very uneven playing field they work in, all come under discussion in Earning Power from Roxanne Calder, a woman who has spent her career working in the field of Recruitment.
Looking back at the early years of her first workplace with the expectations placed on the staff to dress in a confirmative and formal style, to the modern day workplace where the dress standard is far more relaxed, it would seem that much has changed within the world of employment; until you look at earning power, earning capacity and the gender bias that still exists in the world of modern business practice.
Calder says that in many ways the lot of the female employee is a tough one, still carrying with it the responsibility for caring and nurturing, while striving to maintain a professional career, which reflects in women’s capacity to earn the same as their male counterparts.
Why this is still occurring is a question with no single or simple answer; even though there have been laws enacted to attempt to create an equal wage structure, this is only relevant in certain areas. Over the course of the book, Calder looks at how change can and should occur, as well as what women have to gain, by establishing the desire and motivation to demand more from their workplace, their profession and themselves.
She uses anecdotal evidence from Julia Ross, the first female CEO to ever list on the Stock market with her company Julia Ross Recruitment, Peta Credlin, Nagi Maehashi, Professor Fiona Wood, Kristina Karlsson, Leila McKinnon and Philip Kearns AM, all people who have succeeded in tough workplaces, faced serious knockbacks refusing to give in or give up on their chosen career pathways.
Inspirational, informative and entertaining, Earning Power sets out the many disadvantages still faced by women in the workplace, some unconscious, some deliberate, offering more than thirty years of expertise to present solutions to overcome gender bias and how women can do so much more to change the million dollar earning gap that still exists in very real terms.