News & Views How Margie lost 20 kilos. Urgh. Yesterday the cover of the latest Australian Women’s Weekly magazine popped up on my Instagram feed.
News & Views What war reporting shares in common with combining a career and family in Australia At age 15 Sophie McNeill borrowed her school’s video equipment and, without her family knowing, travelled to East Timor to make a documentary about the health crisis that was unfolding.
News & Views What would women know about banking or wealth? Very little according to the Financial Review An update: The Australian Financial Review’s Michael Stutchbury has responded to this story.
News & Views A conversation with Tanya Plibersek: Quotas, pay gap, gender in Cabinet and returning to work after a baby Tanya Plibersek knows her way around the issues facing Australian women.
News & Views Sorry what? Who is responsible for the PPL backflip??? It’s been over a week since we learned that the government had opted to make working mothers – past, current and prospective – the losers in this year’s budget.
News & Views Paid parental leave and childcare: It’s worse than ‘either or’ To say the Abbott Government’s paid parental leave policy has few friends is an understatement.
News & Views The McGrath Foundation and Dell Australia appoint female chief executives Petra Buchanan, the former CEO of the Australian Subscription Television Association, has today been announced as the chief executive of the McGrath Foundation.
News & Views Liberal party leaders want more women The outgoing president of the Federal Liberal Council Alan Stockdale has described the underrepresentation of women as an important concern for the party.
News & Views Webinar preview: Lessons learned from 1000 global leaders in Paris Avril Henry, also known as Lt General David Morrison’s leadership coach, was one of three Australian women invited to present at the Global Summit of Women in Paris earlier this month.
News & Views Want more women working? Tackle complex family payments If the goal of family payments is to boost women’s workforce participation, we have a big problem because we are now spending $32 billion a year and we’re getting very little in return.
News & Views Ideas for women: Give a childcare spot to every 2 year old When a child turns five in Australia, give or take a few months depending on the state, there is a guaranteed place for them at school.
News & Views Ideas for women: Think the pay gap is a myth? Let’s make wages transparent so you can prove it. This is the sixth ‘idea’ in our Eight game-changing ideas for women at work series, published over the next two weeks.