News & Views

I get a lot of questions from women about how to network.

Last week I wrote about intimidation and bullying.

Successful people leading businesses usually avoid giving much notice to narrow-minded comments, but when you are constantly faced with discrimination it still hurts and it’s hard to stay quiet.

This is the first of our #womenintech series, profiling the diverse range of roles in the field, how different women got involved, and their ideas for making the sector more inclusive.

This indeed is an interesting time to be evaluating leaders and politicians, with the US presidential election heating up, the UK Prime Minister resigning, and, closer to home, our political stars out to impress in the last few days before the federal election.

On Women’s Agenda, we receive a lot of press releases regarding new incentives employers are offering to help attract and retain new parents.

Life is hectic.

Sydney is the eighth best city in the world to be a female entrepreneur, according to a new study.

It’s the final day of campaigning and guess what? We STILL haven’t heard a huge amount about women’s workforce participation from either party, despite our hopes five weeks ago.

Most of the fresh female faces we’ll see in the new parliament will be in the Labor party, given the ALP managed to pick up a number of key battleground seats over the weekend.

She’s a mining engineer, a humanitarian, a motivational speaker and a burns survivor.

Swimmer Cate Campbell broke the world 100 metres freestyle record over the weekend, a performance that may have been missed or at least overlooked as we attempted to figure out the results of the Federal election.