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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.

There’s a handy new website available for those who want to start using their money to do something about the lack of women in leadership.

Once upon a time, there was a Women’s Budget Statement, started under Bob Hawke in 1983 but stopped in 2013.

The story of Julia Gillard’s career as prime minister is ultimately underpinned by resilience.

There are achievable targets, and then there are bold, ambitious goals that take significant work, effort and resources to achieve – but ultimately aim to really harness the potential of the entire population.

Since Prime Minister Turnbull took over the leadership last year, he has told Australians that he will treat family violence as a national priority.