News & Views

It’s been 24 hours since Sophia Amoruso’s Nasty Gal filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States, a business Amoruso started building ten years ago, which went on to become one of the most powerful and successful online retailers in the world.

During digital strategist Rahaf Harfoush’s first trip to Australia, she did some media appearances and discussed her experience as a full-time volunteer for the digital strategy team on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.

Nicola Wakefield Evans has been appointed to the national board of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, which will see the 12-person board go 50% female for the first time.

Guess what? Women are just as capable and talented as men in STEM fields! That’s despite less than one in four IT grads and one in 10 engineering grads being female, and a significant lack of women in leadership across such industries.

Erin Mulvey is waging a war on meaningless compliance training in workplaces, which she says does little more then “create resentment and ensure impoverished minds”.

Yes, you’re entitled to your opinion, but as Danielle Wood from the Grattan Institute writes, it helps if you’re a man.

Anna Ross worked a number of different jobs before spotting a gap in the market for a unique new product.

Hearing another educated and skilled friend lament the fact there was “no point” in returning to the workforce, gave SAP President Adaire Fox-Martin an idea.

It’s Ok to fire a mentor, according to one of Australia’s most influential women in tech, Dell ANZ Managing Director and Senior Vice President Angela Fox.

Canva, an online graphic design platform co-founded by Melanie Perkins, has been named Australia’s coolest tech company to work for by Job Advisor.

Given large companies inevitably employ both the victims and perpetrators of domestic and family violence, they have a responsibility to play a part in addressing the problem.

Labor MP Emma Husar has delivered an emotional speech in Parliament detailing her personal experiences with domestic violence, noting that for too many years she’s been embarrassed and ashamed when she should not have been.