Ed’s Blog

Three women made headlines yesterday; each of them trailblazers, each in the spotlight talking openly about the shackles that could have stifled them.

You may be aware that today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

To the women of Australia, if you feel like you (or the women around you) are having your credibility chipped away by interruptions, allegations of being “emotions”, you are not imagining it.

Just thinking about the amount it costs to send my eldest son to childcare churns my stomach.

She is quite possibly the most influential scientist you’ve never heard of.

Depleted? Distracted? Unfulfilled? It might be that as the end of the year approaches, you are simply tired and ready for a break.

It’s no secret that Silicon Valley has a problem with gender diversity, a problem that spills into much of the tech sector worldwide.

I love this time of year and all its associated madness.

Just weeks away from welcoming in the year 2017 and it’s still a man’s world when it comes to leading the world’s largest organisations.

A few years ago Fortescue Metals Group was the last ASX50 company to have an all-male board.

In news that won’t surprise regular newspaper readers, women continue to account for just a fraction of the experts quoted by journalists or published as commentators.

There’s “a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women”.