Angela Priestley

If you work with a number of women, there’s a good chance some of your colleagues have been or will be victims of violence.

Is there too much talk and not enough action when it comes to diversity? According to an audience poll following a two-hour debate on the question last night the answer is yes.

It’s World Female Entrepreneur Day today, a United Nations led initiative inspiring and supporting female entrepreneurs all over the world.

So apparently you can lead a really, really large organisation and take leave after having a baby.

Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard is possibly the single best woman in the country to give advice on leadership.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called for an ‘ideas boom’ while announcing his $1.

At this rate, we’ll be waiting until the year 2044 before seeing another woman feature as an individual winner of TIME’s Person of the Year.

It’s not hard to find women pictured and profiled in the mainstream media.

When Layne Beachley really wants something, she’ll do everything possible to make it happen.

Charlotte Wood’s just won the Stella Prize for her novel The Natural Way of Things, but she still finds discussing its subject matter difficult.

Progress for women at work has been glacially slow.

This is an edited extract from Angela Priestley’s book Women Who Seize The Moment, first published in 2014 and republished by Simon & Schuster in 2016.