Business

Microsoft has significantly enhanced its family benefits for employees, announcing it will now offer primary carers twenty weeks paid parental leave at full pay, and six weeks at full pay to secondary carers.

The issue of gender quotas for Australian businesses has again hit the headlines with a suggestion from the Human Rights Commission that the federal government use its procurement processes to become a “model industry” when it comes to improving representations of women in the workforce.

It’s not about hiring women, it’s about hiring RIGHT, and that requires you to open your ears, writes Appscore Co-founder and Managing Director Alex Louey.

What happens when you run a small business, and give birth?

The thought of starting a new business to find flexibility as a single mother is enough to make even the boldest woman sweat.

The ASX 200 will soon have one less female CEO, after Dreamworld’s parent company Ardent Leisure Group announced major leadership changes this morning, including the replacement of Deborah Thomas as CEO.

Eighteen months ago, Elanation co-founder Katherine Pace never thought she’d be building a children’s company.

Anyone with ambitious goals needs to be constantly learning, something made possible (and enjoyable) through reading.

There’s a 16% discount on offer at Australian business Travelwithjane.

Ever get to 4pm and find yourself still in your gym clothes, even on the days you haven’t actually managed to get to the gym? It’s a problem Noa Ries knew well, especially after the birth of her first daughter.

It’s great that women are increasingly leading startups but it’s coming at a cost, with women paying themselves less in the process.

When entrepreneur Siobhan Komander started her own events business back in 2004, she had a laptop, $3000 and no clients.