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Recently I was told that I had made a decision “like a girl”, and it was wounding.

I read an interesting article on the weekend about General Motor’s CEO Mary Barra.

A common excuse for lack of women in leadership is that many potential female leaders choose not to return to their roles following the birth of a child — so we can’t promote women if they have taken themselves out of the leadership pipeline.

I’ll admit I was furious when I read a headline yesterday claiming a new survey had found that most men believe women have themselves to blame for falling short of the C-suite.

There are 20,000 people enrolled in MBA programs in Australia but only 35% of them are women according to the Macquarie Graduate School of Management.

When my sons were babies I worried about missing out on those special moments as a full-time working mother.

Twelve years ago Alexandra Smart was in her final MBA year, pregnant with her first child and needing to theoretically re-engineer a business unit for the strategic management final project.

Mentors are generally time-poor women like me who devote more time to mentoring the next generation of female leaders than they have to give.

Earlier in the week I made a promise to a twitter follower that I would explain how I managed to complete an MBA with a career-focused (and career-dependent) lifestyle and two young children.

Female leaders constantly struggle with the paradox of nice versus tough.

It goes without saying that I meet high-achieving women constantly given my association with Women’s Agenda.

At the NAB Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards alumni cocktail party on Wednesday evening, hosted by Audi at its Zetland dealership in Sydney, a senior business woman told me that she was seriously considering trading in her car for an Audi.