Angela Priestley

I heard Lyn Heward speak this morning at the World Business Forum.

Gina Rinehart is Australia’s richest person and the 27th most powerful woman in the world, according to today’s annual power women list from Forbes.

The bad news is that one of the world’s most powerful organisations is 70% male and 61% white.

They might work in completely different industries and have probably never even met each other, but Peta Searle and Tracey Fellows now share something in common.

‘Stuff’ is one of those words that evokes emotion.

When Patricia Bellinger, now the executive director of Harvard Education, joined BP back in 2000, she encountered a leadership team “almost exclusively white, male and Anglo-Saxon”.

In twenty years, what’s changed for women in business? That was the question asked at a Telstra media event in Sydney this morning, with a number of leading businesswomen and former Telstra award winners presenting an optimistic view off how much progress has been made.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has made a general observation today in response to Clive Palmer’s attack on Peta Credlin, Abbott’s own chief of staff.

When Vicky Skipp was six months pregnant, she took an international role with LinkedIn building a large Asia-based sales team.

The more I read about the thriving market for female entrepreneurship in Australia the more I think many of us would be sensible to giveaway the corporate job and apply our skills elsewhere.

One of the most common pieces of career advice I hear comes in the form of just three words: Follow your passion.

When I was 29 and three quarters, I had a brief moment of panic.