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The question of how to improve women's representation in senior positions is a tricky one, but could there be a simple way to smash the glass ceiling?
New Zealand ranked 33 out of 35 countries in a survey by professional services firm Grant Thornton into the number of women in senior management roles. Just 18 per cent of women held the top jobs.
Lata Gangadharan is an experimental economist at Monash University in Melbourne and believes an opt-out mechanism - rather than the norm where people put their hands up for roles - could help improve diversity and women's representation in the workforce.
