Ed’s Blog

The excellent news it that women have cracked the 50% mark in occupying the board positions available in Australia’s community sector.

People, it’s time to take back your life – at least the essential part that happens while you’re sleeping.

As the ladies behind Women for Media, a new arm of Carol Schwartz’s Women’s Leadership Institute Australia will attest, there are plenty of excellent women willing to offer their expert views on issues reported in the news.

Judging by the strong turnout at Chief Executive Women’s annual dinner last night, Australia’s most high-profile businesspeople are keen on discussing workplace gender equality.

When same-sex marriage is inevitably legalised, one wonders how we’ll remember this week’s debate and defeat of the marriage equality bill in the House of Representatives.

Working women appear to be the primary target market for products, services, events and chants promising to improve self-esteem.

If may come as no surprise to you to hear that full-time working women are finding it more difficult to achieve work/life balance than men.

Deloitte Australia CEO Giam Swiegers knows the stakes are high when it comes to gender diversity.

It’s a little too early to celebrate, but rumblings that Shemara Wikramanayake could be a successor to Macquarie Bank boss Nicholas Moore are certainly welcome.

Alan Jones’ outdated thinking on women became even more apparent during yesterday’s press conference in which he offered an apology to Prime Minister Julia Gillard for comments he made about her late father.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has just given birth to her first child.

When Alan Jones muttered the words, “destroying the joint” he could not have imagined they’d be used to mobilise such a powerful movement of men and women to take a united stand against him.