Future of work: women and young employees challenges and opportunities Associate Professor Rae Cooper Associate Dean & Co-Director Women, Work and Leadership Research Group University of Sydney Business School @raecooper1 Future of work: women and young employees challenges and opportunities LCSA – Connecting Communities Conference 2017

Overview of the presentation Work is changing Working lives now: Women Working lives now: Young People* Orientation toward work, volunteering and careers Opportunities & challenges in the future of work *but more on women

voices of young people and women Work is changing Industry, sector and skills mix shifts Technology and AI disrupts jobs and tasks Blurring between ‘employers’, ‘employees’, ‘clients’, ‘colleagues’ Flexibility becomes more pervasive (in all its forms) Security of employment reduced Regulation is ‘softer’ and not keeping pace with work Inequality increases (further) OM#G - you are not listening voices of young people and women

Key FoW theme: Robot-topia or Robot-sploitiation

Historically women and young workers: Past Present Future Historically women and young workers: Not seen as ‘real workers’; Had their work undervalued = ‘women’s work’, ‘non-career track’; Were treated unequally at work and / or mistreated (wages, progression, access to training, leave, safe work) What about now?

Q: Things have changed right?

2. Women’s working lives: significant change in the last generation Male & Female Labour Force Participation Rates: 1978-2014 Source: ABS (2015, June), 6291.0.55.001 Labour Force, Australia, Detailed - Electronic Delivery

Women’s working lives: significant change in the last generation 3. Some things change Female labour force participation rate, by age, 1979, 1984, 1994, 2004 and 2014 Source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2015) analysis of ABS (2015) Labour force, Australia, December 2014. ABS. cat. no. 6291.0.55.001.

Men’s working lives : significant change in the last generation Male labour force participation rate, by age, 1978, 1988, 1998, 2001 and 2011 3. Some things change

Share of projected employment growth, by industry to 2020 8. Industry and work 2/3 of projected growth is in feminised jobs and sectors It’s a thing Source: Australian Government (2016) Industry Employment Projections 2016 Report, Release date: March 2016

Glass ceilings Glass walls Sticky floors

#disruption? #innovation? #notsomuch SMH: 29 July 2017

Future

Young workers life and work experience Need work INCOME HOME OWNERSHIP UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT Grattan Institute 2014; FYA 2017, 2016; Jackson 2017, 2016a, 2015; KPMG/WGEA 2016, Kryger 2015; Worksafe

Young workers’ life and work experience VOICE PAY EQUITY WORK SAFETY Grattan Institute 2014; FYA 2017, 2016; Jackson 2017, 2016a, 2015; KPMG/WGEA 2016, Kryger 2015; Worksafe

Young people’s orientation toward work and careers VALUE EDUCATION FLEXIBILITY SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS INDIVIDUALISED

Young people’s orientation toward work and careers VALUES AND IMPACT

Australian Women’s Working Futures Survey 2017 national survey of women Experience NOW at work: Material conditions of work (wages, hours, training) Social conditions of work (voice, value, equality) Expectations of FUTURE of work: Robot-topia, robot-spolitation? Material and social condition (Sample of men: cf) Results launching December (interim) IWD 2018 (full)

Opportunities & challenges for community organisation leaders Attracting, managing & retaining diverse mix of employees – full, part-time, paid, volunteer. Understanding workforce and their needs (in work and as people) Responding to change to build sustainable organisations and careers Doing this in the context of limited resources (and increasing demands for services).