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Tackling the gender pain gap: Nurofen’s long-term, responsible brand play highlighting another gender gap in the Australian market

Amid heated conversation around Australia’s gender pay gap and women’s progress, Reckitt Benckiser brand, Nurofen, debuted its new campaign, ‘See my pain’ and first-ever Australian Gender Pain Gap Index Report. It reveals a 7 per cent gap existing between women and men nationally when it comes to pain diagnosis and management, and takes its cues from the debut of similar benchmark UK research kicked off by Nurofen last year. Beyond the supporting campaign, Nurofen is backing up its commitment to change by helping train 9,000-plus pharmacists on how to avoid unconscious bias when dealing with female consumers. It’s no commercial ploy to sell another packet of Zavance, says Reckitt marketing director health ANZ, Holly McCarthy, but a multi-year effort to wield brand power to progress action and advocacy against an all too real bias.

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Be worried: Australian privacy commissioner on what brands need to do next to comply with personal information, fair data use and breaches as AI threat looms

There’s ever-growing consumer concern around the way personal information is handled off the back of Australia’s high-profile data breaches at Optus, Medibank and Latitude as well as AI use, says former privacy and now information Commissioner, Angelene Falk – and brands should be worried. Prevention is better than cure when it comes to meeting consumer demands and forthcoming privacy legislative change, and Falk is urging businesses to ensure data breach plans are not gathering dust but are operationally ready. Where businesses also need to do better is around the human intersection with systems and information, Falk says. That’s especially the case with more AI on its way, consuming more and more data sets, often without the ethics of human oversight, from all edges of the internet.  

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