Alan Jones’ outdated thinking on women became even more apparent during yesterday’s press conference in which he offered an apology to Prime Minister Julia Gillard for comments he made abo…
Macquarie’s next boss: a woman?
It’s a little too early to celebrate, but rumblings that Shemara Wikramanayake could be a successor to Macquarie Bank boss Nicholas Moore are certainly welcome. Appointing a woman to the top job…
The woman who told her male boss where to go, and then wrote a book about it
We’ve all thought about it. Some of us have even internally planned every millisecond of how it would play out. For most of though, caution or common sense usually steps in before we get to the …
One size fits all for women? Not in fashion, not in professional services either
Deloitte Australia CEO Giam Swiegers knows the stakes are high when it comes to gender diversity. Diversity is not something that can be designated as a project for the HR department to deal with. It&…
The work/life myth: How we’re donating 17 days a year to our employers
If may come as no surprise to you to hear that full-time working women are finding it more difficult to achieve work/life balance than men. Nor will the fact that the problem’s actually getting …
Awesome! Incredible! Do words encouraging self-esteem do more harm than good?
Working women appear to be the primary target market for products, services, events and chants promising to improve self-esteem. There are historical reasons why this has been the case, and this porti…
How will history record the marriage equality debate?
When same-sex marriage is inevitably legalised, one wonders how we’ll remember this week’s debate and defeat of the marriage equality bill in the House of Representatives. There’s no…
Pay it forward: Senior leaders need to do more than ‘inspire’
Judging by the strong turnout at Chief Executive Women’s annual dinner last night, Australia’s most high-profile businesspeople are keen on discussing workplace gender equality. Whether th…
Germaine Greer a leader when it comes to giving a quote
As the ladies behind Women for Media, a new arm of Carol Schwartz’s Women’s Leadership Institute Australia will attest, there are plenty of excellent women willing to offer their expert vi…
Women and the next financial crisis
There’s been a sharp increase in the appointment of women to the boards of FTSE 100 companies in recent years, albeit from an incredibly low base to start with. Although women hold just 17.3% of…
