Profiles Suzie Riddell – leader, philanthropist, mother, advocate At 12 years old Suzie Riddell started a ‘little social enterprise’, publishing a class newsletter where the proceeds went to charity.
Advice Time pressure may be a better way to measure work-life balance A work-life-family balance is highly valued by most workers and employers now realise they need to offer flexible arrangements such as reduced hours, flexi-time or telework (working from home).
Advice Men and women biased about studies of STEM gender bias – in opposite directions In 2012, an experiment on gender bias shook the scientific community by showing that science faculty favor male college graduates over equally qualified women applying for lab manager positions.
Ed's Blog Greetings from the new Editor This is my first piece as the Editor of Women’s Agenda, and I have to admit to being a little nervous.
Ed's Blog The progressive state government in Victoria is being an actual progressive government. How strange. So, the Andrews Labor government in Victoria is being…weird.
Ed's Blog Jay Weatherill: too much reporting of child abuse is clogging up our system Every year for 25 years, National Child Protection Week starts on Father’s day.
Ed's Blog Is Tony Abbott the ultimate Incompetent Boss? Tony Abbott is the ultimate Incompetent Boss Most of us, at some point, have worked for an Incompetent Boss, and suffered for their incompetence.
Ed's Blog How one photo changed a decade of politics of fear There was a lot of debate last week on the ethics of distributing the photo of Aylan Kurdi’s tiny body washed up on a Turkish beach, and there’s definitely valid arguments on both sides.
Ed's Blog Depicting women over 40 as old and frumpy isn’t just wrong, it’s stupid Facebook is probably the website I visit more often than any other site each day.
Ed's Blog Tony Abbott is not the Minister for Women. No one is. Why won’t he tell us that? Lisa Wilkinson wrote an eloquent open letter to Tony Abbott last Friday, respectfully asking him to stand down as Minister for Women.
Ed's Blog Prime Minister Turnbull, and the easy win with women’s issues Unless you’ve been stuck in an isolation chamber for the last 24 hours, you would have heard by now that Malcom Turnbull challenged Tony Abbott for the leadership of the liberal party last night and won.
Ed's Blog Turnbull needs time, and so do we, because politics has to change. Leadership spills, particularly ones involving a Prime Minister, are both inherently silly and deeply concerning.
