News & Views Google’s goal to overturn dire numbers of black women in tech Google’s The Grow With Google Black Women Lead is a new initiative providing black women with career development and digital skills.
News & Views Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala becomes first woman appointed director-general of World Trade Organization Nigeria’s former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed director general of the World Trade Organization.
Profiles Yanti Turang fought Ebola in Sierra Leone. Now she’s fighting COVID-19 in New Orleans. WHAT SHE DID NEXT talks to Yanti Turang, a registered nurse from Australia, working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
News & Views Four in five Australians faced burnout in 2020 Work management app Asana has found that Australians had one of the highest rates of burnout of any country in 2020.
News & Views Women experts on COVID-19 ignored on network television A study looking at the number of experts who appeared on mainstream television on COVID-19 revealed that only 30 percent were women.
News & Views A tough time for progress on women in tech, and sexism & harassment continues More than one in five women in IT have experienced sexual harassment and more than half saying they had experienced gender discrimination.
Advice Know your ‘outside advantage’: Tips for making a career reset, and how employers can help The pandemic has seen some accelerated changes we wanted to see happen, including perhaps that long-desired career change?
News & Views Female dominated industry of retail faces mental health crisis Roughly two-thirds of the retail workforce experienced a mental health condition during the COVID-19 pandemic.
News & Views First ever TIME Kid of the Year goes to 15-year old inventor Gitanjali Rao TIME magazine recognises America’s youngest and most inspiring leaders in Kid of the Year as 15-year-old scientist and inventor Gitanjali Rao
News & Views The women behind the approval of UK’s first COVID-19 vaccine Britain has become the first Western country to allow mass immunisations against COVID-19 when approved Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine.
News & Views Job hiring algorithms are disadvantaging women A study has revealed that subconscious gender biases from a range of sources leads to unfavourable outcomes for female job applicants.
News & Views More people died from suicide than COVID last month in Japan. Many were women. More people died from suicide than the COVID-19 virus last month in Japan. Many were women. The mental health catastrophe might be rising.
