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Nine out of ten Australian girls don’t believe they’re treated equally to boys, and many say sexism is preventing them from reaching their potential, according to new research released yesterday.

If I asked you to name a legendary investor you’d probably come back with Warren Buffett, George Soros or Benjamin Graham.

On Saturday, Emma Watson delivered a game-changing speech about feminism to the United Nations, bringing gender equality to the top of mainstream conversation.

At what point would your dream job become your ultimate nightmare? Would it be when you received your first threat of rape? Or your second, your third? What if you became the target of rape threats every day, with so many such threats made in so many corners of the Internet you couldn’t possibly keep track of them all?  That’s the reality facing some women in public life.

News of the imminent closure of the Manus Island detention facility could not have come soon enough.

How do you pick a winner when the nominations are so awful, the contenders would probably prefer not to be up for an award in the first place? Simple – invite around 400 women to dinner and hold a boo-off.

You take notice when somebody as experienced and accomplished as Wendy McCarthy acknowledges one of the most difficult periods of a woman’s life – her late twenties and thirties.

Lip service has been paid for long enough about gender diversity in ASX-listed boardrooms.

So, the Stella Count is in for 2013.

Life’s just not fair for Donald Trump.

What unites Donald Trump’s supporters, apparently, is not their racism, their class position, or their xenophobic anti-immigrant positions.

UPDATE (January 2016): There’s lots of great things in this timeless piece, but one of the most interesting is reading it through the lens of the article it would have been if the subject had been a female CEO who quit to spend more time with her children.