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Last night I attended the launch of the Deb Bailey Motor Neurone Disease Research Centre at Macquarie University, NSW.

I was invited to participate in an energy-saving scheme aimed at women.

On Sunday evening I indulged in some good old fashioned reminiscing.

During the late eighties and early nineties I was in the fortunate position of having a front row seat at the weekly women’s magazine war between Woman’s Day and New Idea.

It is expected that the Canterbury Bulldogs NRL club will today officially appoint New Zealand Netball CEO Raelene Castle to the CEO role vacated by Todd Greenberg last month.

The week that we launched Women’s Agenda in August last year, a press release was emailed to the trade media heralding its arrival.

I was contacted by a young woman yesterday from 2SER, a community radio station in NSW jointly owned by Macquarie University and The University of Technology.

I was recently asked the question: what’s the best age to have a baby if you also want a long and rewarding career? The twenty-something woman who posed that question was quite serious and seeking a genuine response.

My working weeks can be long and arduous.

When I read that Angelina Jolie had undergone a double mastectomy to reduce the risk of breast cancer and ovarian cancer, I felt her fear.

In a newspaper office one night last week a sub editor removed the reference to a business woman’s children from an article.

I caught up with the managing director of an engineering company this week.