News & Views

Please stop telling me “Be patient, it will get better over time!” In 1978 when I started work, women were actively entering the professional workforce in large numbers – not just thinking of a job until they got married but believing they could also have a fulfilling career.

Retail and hospitality workers who are sexually harassed by customers are unlikely to ever tell their manager or boss, according to a study by a researcher from the University of Sydney.

Let’s hope running around after small children really does burn the extra calories, along with standing on the side of a soccer field watching older kids play sport.

Around the world, one of the greatest barriers to women’s workforce participation is the burden of unpaid work that they continue to shoulder at home.

Trying your best is meant to be the key to success.

“My face, it’s fat, it’s just fat.

Workplaces can be a key setting to prevent violence against women but prevention programs are often thwarted by some leaders who don’t see it as a workplace issue, our research shows.

This is the eighth and final ‘idea’ in our Eight game-changing ideas for women at work series, that we have published over the last two weeks.

I still remember what I was doing and where I was four years ago, when I heard the news that Marissa Mayer had been named CEO of Yahoo.

An undisclosed heart condition prevented Cardinal Pell, the third most powerful man in the Catholic Church, from travelling to Australia to appear before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Funny and formidable is the way I would describe Australia’s foreign minister after seeing Julie Bishop up close this week.

Being ‘the first woman’ is a unique challenge.