News & Views

On one side of town, we’ve got a former company chair declaring the system’s trying to “crush gender equality into the space of a few years” and that it’s the “wrong time to be a 60-year-old professional” male.

  The startup world is filled with dreams inspired by stories of Mark Zuckerberg, Brian Chesky and the like who started with nothing – in an apartment or garage – and have built companies that changed how we behave, interact, move and even think.

On June 18th, 2014, I sat in a coffee shop and stared at my laptop.

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the woman behind two-lipstick businesses, Poppy King.

  Overnight, at least 31 people were killed and hundreds injured following a number of bomb explosions in Belgium, including at Brussels Airport and a metro train station.

Australia still has a long way to go when it comes to gender diversity at the very top of organisations.

If you want your future offspring to get into politics, or on the board of an ASX 200 company, think carefully about the names you choose.

This week’s been another strange one in Australian politics, and carried a reminder of how far we’ve still got to go to end flippant sexism.

Anyone who has ever worked in television knows it takes hard work and perseverance to get ahead or even to get your foot in the door.

It’s an unpopular opinion, but I do believe politicians should be well paid.

Recently at the UN meeting on Gender Equality, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said “I am going to keep saying loud and clear that I am a feminist until it is met with a shrug.

Professional women need to be less critical of other women, according to former Attorney-General Nicola Roxon, the first woman to hold the role.