Ed’s Blog

We’re about 24 hours away from finding out if, after a very long succession of 44 men, a woman will be named the 45th president of the United States.

In 2012 Gillian Triggs retired from her position as the Dean of Sydney University Law School to take up a new job as President of the Human Rights Commission.

I started the day filled with optimism.

Hillary Clinton told her supporters to continue fighting for what’s right and urged girls to take every opportunity to achieve their own dreams, during her concession speech overnight.

We’re working with Business Chicks to help counter a bad week for women in leadership.

It was barely a week ago and yet, thanks to an eventful election in between, it feels like it took place in a different world.

It’s true.

A rise in the number of women in senior management positions is the good news in WGEA’s latest survey of Australian workplaces, but blink and you might still miss seeing such women in your office.

A President-elect who is a billionaire, in part due to inheriting a vast estate from his father, cast as the champion of the working class: the anti-establishment.

Trust is an issue that keeps coming up when it comes to workplace flexibility, particularly in ‘allowing’ employees to work from home.

The government is looking at boosting paid parental leave from 18 to 20 weeks.

There are few jobs I can personally imagine enjoying more than writing a column for the Financial Times.