Georgie Dent

For the past five years corporate advisory firm EY has researched and prepared a report exploring the issue of women in leadership.

A day doesn’t pass where I don’t feel grateful for having a job I love.

It’s impossible, I’m quite sure, to read anything about Pakistani schoolgirl and education campaigner Malala Yousafzai without wondering how anyone could grow to be as strong and brave and wise as she is at just 16 years of age.

When our Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, appointed himself the minister for women there were two obvious explanations.

Did you watch Q&A on the ABC last night? If not, count yourself lucky.

I have already written that I watched British journalist Peter Hitchens on Q&A with disbelief on Monday night.

Getting a handful of our most powerful chief executives in the same room at the same time is no small feat.

Yesterday afternoon, at an event hosted by the Victorian Women’s Trust called Credit Where Credit Is Due, the former Prime Minister Julia Gillard gave a keynote address to an adoring crowd.

As far as Tuesday evenings go this was pretty good.

A while back we ran an article on Women’s Agenda about employers that don’t ‘do’ flexibility.

Today the Prime Minister Tony Abbott has received an important letter and a report from the COAG Reform Council called Tracking equity: comparing outcomes for women and girls across Australia.

It’s a sentiment that resonated with me after I had had my first baby.