Women in property industry must speak up on gender equality: Green buildings CEO

Romilly Madew champions gender equality as well as sustainability, and says the Green Star rating system has the capacity to 'truly transform' our cities

As a woman in the traditionally male-dominated property industry, Romilly Madew, the chief executive of the Green Building Council Australia (GBCA) and member of the leadership group Chief Executive Women, knows first-hand the difficulties of getting women into the limelight.

The GBCA and the Property Council of Australia have a policy of ensuring 60% of those taking part in their joint annual Green Cities conference are women. She says this "makes women more visible and, in turn, could lead to recruiters seeing more women". However, Madew notes that meeting this self-imposed quota can be hard work.