"Ita Buttrose on the lack of female participation in Australian boardrooms, describing current rates as ''pretty pathetic''.

She thinks little has changed since the 1970s when, as editor of Cleo magazine, she ran an interview with the playwright David Williamson, who said: ''The Australian male still tends to show a lot of chauvinism, mistrust and fear of women.''

''I think there is still a lot of that in some of the old boys' networks that exist in boardrooms today,'' she said.

''These men are of the time where they didn't expect women to accomplish all the things we have. Many of them have wives who haven't sought careers still.''

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Stanford University - Shelley J Correll | Evidence based research shows that if women are exposed to negative stereotypes they start to perform at a lower standard than they would have if they were not exposed to the negative stereotypes.

Minister for Families Jenny Macklin and Minister for the Status of Women, Kate Ellis today released the Fathering in Australia Among Young Couple Families with Young Children by the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS).

Ms Ellis said that boosting women’s involvement in the paid workforce requires that more domestic and caring duties at home be undertaken by men.

The report confirmed that mothers continue to do the lion share of unpaid domestic and child care work in Australia.

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