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The board for Victoria’s independent body representing startups is the first in the Australian innovation sector to have women outnumbering men, minister for small business, innovation and trade Philip Dalidakis says.

The non-profit organisation, TED, is dedicated to spreading ideas through the medium of powerful talks.

The culture in astronomy, and in science more broadly, needs a major reboot following revelations early this year of another case of harassment against women by a senior male academic.

Recently in the industry a well-known multinational group celebrated a milestone in their history with a burlesque birthday “theme”.

After Christmas, I took my almost 3-year old son to see an Australian Ballet Company production for children: The Sleeping Beauty Storytime Ballet.

The Australian Financial Review reported yesterday on the results of research into discrimination against working mothers: More than half of all working mothers in Australia say they have been discriminated against purely because they have children to care for, according to research commissioned by jobs website and training provider FlexCareers.

For the organisers of Melbourne tech conference Above All Human, getting an equal gender split in its speakers wasn’t a great achievement.

You may have been following the storm in the teacup that has been brewing as a result of litigation involving ANZ Bank, strip clubs and certain (allegedly) badly behaved traders who it turns out are paid more than their Bank’s CEO.

If you’ve been an avid reader of Women’s Agenda for quite some time, as I have, you would’ve picked up on an underlying theme in 2015, which continued into the new year: the focus on women in tech.

I took in a staggering amount of email on Christmas day last year.

The women of the Suffragette movement are often depicted as pioneers in the struggle for female emancipation.

In a joint statement issued last week by the Federal Attorney General and Minister for Social Services, we saw a welcome commitment by both parties to ‘lead the development of a national approach to redress for victims of institutional child sexual abuse.