Women 's Agenda

When Rhian Allen became pregnant with her first child in 2010, she realised just how incompatible her career as a media executive would be with having children.

Just one woman represents Australia on Forbes’ annual World’s Most Powerful Women List, mining magnate Gina Rinehart.

We’ve been here before.

Emily McWaters dropped out of a law degree to start pursuing business ideas – and has failed many times since.

An overburdened and underfunded family law system is putting lives at risk and must be addressed, according to domestic violence campaigner Rosie Batty.

Erica Stewart started her online marketplace hardtofind.

This is the first of our #womenintech series, profiling the diverse range of roles in the field, how different women got involved, and their ideas for making the sector more inclusive.

On Women’s Agenda, we receive a lot of press releases regarding new incentives employers are offering to help attract and retain new parents.

It’s the final day of campaigning and guess what? We STILL haven’t heard a huge amount about women’s workforce participation from either party, despite our hopes five weeks ago.

Most of the fresh female faces we’ll see in the new parliament will be in the Labor party, given the ALP managed to pick up a number of key battleground seats over the weekend.

She’s a mining engineer, a humanitarian, a motivational speaker and a burns survivor.

Swimmer Cate Campbell broke the world 100 metres freestyle record over the weekend, a performance that may have been missed or at least overlooked as we attempted to figure out the results of the Federal election.