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Just 4.7% of those holding one of Australia’s 2490 most senior positions have a non-European background and only 0.4 per cent have an Indigenous background.

Catherine Fox’s ‘Stop Fixing Women’, a book on why building fairer workplaces is everybody’s business, has been nominated Australia’s richest award for business writing. 

New research from homewares retailer, IKEA shows that Australian workers are apprehensive about the future of work. Women in particular remain unconvinced their employers will meet their needs.

The ‘motherhood penalty’ all adds up over the course of a lifetime, and is a key reason why women are retiring with so much less than men.

What’s next for SBE and its growth of female entrepreneurs? Women’s Agenda gets the lowdown from the Chair of SBE Australia and angel investor, Topaz Conway.

Millennials are feeling overwhelming pressure to succeed but are hitting dead-ends in their careers. Here’s how employers can help, and why it’s in their best interest to do so.

Female employees are putting in a 7 per cent higher discretionary effort than their male colleagues. And all that effort is driving productivity in workplaces.

Ribit.net is a simple matchmaking portal, part of CSIRO’s Data61 that connects tertiary students with tech, marketing and digital roles and employers. Liz Jakubowski is behind it all.

IWD has been and gone. It’s what happens now that really matters. Here’s how employers can help shift the dial for women at work.

A landmark research piece conducted by the University of Sydney has explored women’s attitudes, perceptions and realities regarding future career prospects.

Kate Morris, CEO of Adore Beauty has noticed a rash of “manels” (all male panels) cropping up recently. She’s forging ahead with a plan to end the madness. #SayNoToManels

How does Norway dominate the Winter Olympics given its tiny population? A ‘no jerks’ policy helps.