Ed’s Blog

It’s difficult to offer a sweeping statement on whether Treasurer Joe Hockey’s first Federal budget will be ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for women.

Architecture is yet another industry where the ‘pipeline’ has long been expected to supply enough women to see it shift from being heavily male-dominated to offering a more equitable gender mix.

Don’t get too disheartened by the persistent 17.

Stories of sexual harassment are everywhere.

So what’s a woman to do? It’s clear that many of our readers are becoming increasingly frustrated with the current state of politics, all on top of the fact progress for women in leadership is still slow and the structural and cultural impediments affecting women’s workforce participation don’t look like disappearing anytime soon.

For all the efforts being made to boost women’s workforce participation, there’s one aspect that’s not always discussed: the fact some women simply do not want to return to work.

I heard Lyn Heward speak this morning at the World Business Forum.

Gina Rinehart is Australia’s richest person and the 27th most powerful woman in the world, according to today’s annual power women list from Forbes.

The bad news is that one of the world’s most powerful organisations is 70% male and 61% white.

They might work in completely different industries and have probably never even met each other, but Peta Searle and Tracey Fellows now share something in common.

‘Stuff’ is one of those words that evokes emotion.

In twenty years, what’s changed for women in business? That was the question asked at a Telstra media event in Sydney this morning, with a number of leading businesswomen and former Telstra award winners presenting an optimistic view off how much progress has been made.