Who could have guessed that a decade-long teaching career would unravel over one evening thanks to a few words from Oprah? Years of study, detours, travel, professional development and a strong teachi…
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How to use AI to make better hiring decisions & drive workplace equality
Increasingly, Australian organisations are on a mission to create more diverse and inclusive workplaces. Workplaces need to allow people to bring their whole self to work; this will bring together peo…
Targets for diversity? Great. But making inclusion the priority is even better
Diversity is necessary for any employer, but it’s ability to work wonders in an organisation – and sustain itself over the long run – is only as good as how inclusive the employer’s workplace culture …
13 awesome women running start-ups & small businesses to watch
About this time of year, our sister site, SmartCompany usually publishes an annual list of Top Female Entrepreneurs, which ranks Australia’s top women in business based on their revenues or personal w…
Women have ambition. It’s policymakers and employers that lack it
Let’s get something out of the way straight up: Women are not born with less ambition and confidence than men. Just like we are not born with less merit. But women’s confidence can certainly take a hi…
What if we’ve had gender the wrong way around? What if, for workplace parity, we focused on men?
Rachael Bolton, University of Sydney Boosting workforce participation has been the gender catch-cry for at least a decade. Women are paid less than men? Increase female workforce participation! Want t…
When it comes to ‘balance’ we’re just getting started. Keep calling out the ‘imbalance’
Balance best describes what kind of future women want to see, writes Sadhana Smiles. But in many ways we’re making little progress — for example on women in the Liberal Party, on women ret…
