Associate Professor Isabel Metz

Female bank workers leave due to unfriendly work practices

6 Oct 2009, 10.22 AM
Female bank workers leave due to unfriendly work practices

Mergers, management changes and unfriendly work-family practices were the main reasons behind women leaving the workforce today a new survey has found.

The survey of 44 bank workers in Australia found that despite the popular assumption that professional women ‘opt out’ of the workforce to focus on family – “choosing to forgo top management aspirations to fulfill the traditional role of homemaker” - it was unlikely to be the main reason for their departure. 

Female bank workers leave due to unfriendly work practices: study

6 Oct 2009, 9.09 AM

Mergers, management changes and unfriendly work-family practices were the main reasons behind women leaving the workforce today a new Melbourne Business School survey has found.