Angela Priestley

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.

For a growing number of women, juggling a career with caring responsibilities is not just a matter of fitting in work around the kids but also in finding the time to look after elderly parents.

If you thought we’d long stamped out the archaic belief that a ‘woman’s place is in the home’, you thought wrong.

Hillary Clinton has formally acknowledged the difficulties former prime minister Julia Gillard faced in office, writing in her book that she faced “outrageous sexism”.