Business

What can employers do when it comes to shifting the dial on women in leadership? And governments? And how about all of us? A number of participants from our recent roundtable with Baker McKenzie share what they believe can help shift the dial for women in business.

When I started my career, female CEOs and executives were few and far between.

When Carla Harris was eight months pregnant with her second child, she started thinking about how she’d plan for her retirement.

It’s no surprise that men continue to dominate major leadership positions across almost all industry sectors in Australia.

The largest survey of Australia’s startup ecosystem wants the trend of an increasing number of women getting involved continuing.

Sydney-based startup UrbanYou has closed a $1 million Series A raise in just a fortnight, bucking the usual trend that sees startups spending months of planning and schmoozing to secure funding.

My confidence regarding the treatment of women in the Australian startup community has improved dramatically over the past 24 hours, after seeing strong, public reactions from male and female leaders in the sector to widespread revelations of sexual harassment of female founders in the US.

Prominent Australian businessman, Daniel Petre has hit out at the “pathetic response” from the VC industry to sexual harassment, and issued a no-tolerance policy in the businesses he runs and supports.

Female entrepreneurs deliver on investment more often than male entrepreneurs, yet are funded less frequently.

Late last week, a New York Times article shared detailed accounts from multiple women in tech startups on the sexual harassment and unwelcome advances they’ve received in the industry — particularly when seeking financing.

Just one third of new partners at Australia’s largest law firms are female, according to analysis in the legal section of the Australian Financial Review today.

The age of the internet has made it near impossible for companies to hide when someone in their organisation makes a major blunder, and the research indicates the world is now tougher on bosses who stuff up than ever before.