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Sallie Krawcheck is one of Wall Street’s most successful female players, so when she’s got something to say about women and leadership, people listen.

We all like to Google ourselves.

The richest person in Australia is no longer a woman, after Gina Rinehart was pushed back to fourth place on the BRW Rich List for the first time since 2011.

Alexandra Heron, University of Sydney and Sara Charlesworth, RMIT University Despite laws protecting their rights to work, research shows pregnant women are still being discriminated against with court decisions often being unfavourable to the few bringing legal claims.

Progress for women at work has been glacially slow.

This is an edited extract from Angela Priestley’s book Women Who Seize The Moment, first published in 2014 and republished by Simon & Schuster in 2016.

Entrepreneur Jasmine Lindsay was working a corporate job in Dubai when the idea for her small business hit her.

There is always a risk of blurring the lines between optimism and false hope.

CHANGING FAMILIES: In this ten-part series, The Conversation examines some major changes in family and relationships, and how that might in turn reshape law, policy and our idea of ourselves.

Learning to use our voice and having the courage to speak out is something that many women struggle with.

When Rhian Allen became pregnant with her first child in 2010, she realised just how incompatible her career as a media executive would be with having children.

Just one woman represents Australia on Forbes’ annual World’s Most Powerful Women List, mining magnate Gina Rinehart.