Business

Australia’s leaders in government and business are overwhelmingly Anglo-Saxon despite those from other backgrounds making up a quarter of our population. These politically engaged women spell out why it’s such an issue.

Catherine Brenner was no doubt ambitious. Along with many of the men who’ve stuffed up before her.

Lana Hopkins says she’s feeling “just happiness, excitement and confidence” at the idea of what’s next, but she has taken extreme care in planning her next move.

To become a good software developer, you need to practice writing code. You need other people to look at your code and make suggestions to improve it, and you need to accept that you don’t know everything. And that is pretty much it.

The Australian economy could increase 12%, or by a massive US$225 billion a year (AU$297 billion at current exchange rates), if we could advance women’s equality, according to McKinsey Global Institute’s latest research.

Diversity isn’t just about trying to be nice. It’s good for business. It helps in terms of perception and it produces better outcomes.

The founder of a Shellharbour tutoring business has been recognised as Australia’s best sole trader at this year’s Australian Small Business Champion Awards.

In late 2016, as I was returning to work after the birth of my daughter Amelia, I had the best business idea I’d ever had.

Gender equality recruitment startup WORK180 has secured $1 million in funding, in a seed funding round led by Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar’s private investment firm, Skip Capital.

It wasn’t so long ago that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff declared it impossible that his billion dollar company could have a gender pay gap.

Megan Flamer has been appointed to lead Xcelerate, a new accelerator program created in partnership between Coca-Cola Amatil and BlueChilli.

Global law firm, Herbert Smith Freehills has made a positive leap in the right direction, promoting eight new female partners in Australia.