Local How Susan Lamb is bringing motherhood to politics Freshly minted Labor MP Susan Lamb gave an emotional maiden speech in Parliament yesterday, calling for same-sex marriage.
News & Views Things to know this Day of the Girl Child Today marks the International Day of the Girl Child, a United Nations led initiative supporting the more than 1.
News & Views End the corporate facade: We’re worth more than that One Saturday morning many years I go, I dropped by the office to pick up a few things I needed.
Appointments Catherine Livingstone appointed Commonwealth Bank chairman Australia will soon see another woman chairing one of our largest organisations, with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia today announcing Catherine Livingstone as its new chairman from early 2017.
News & Views Even female war correspondents have to worry about what they wear When Morning Show host, Karl Stefanovic highlighted the double standards between men and women on television by revealing he’d been wearing the same suit for an entire year (and no one noticed), a team of women from CNN celebrated.
News & Views The real reason women drop out of STEM fields Why do women keep dropping out of STEM fields and what can we do about it? We put the question to one of Europe’s leading advocates for women in technology, Monique Morrow, who says workplaces need to start looking at themselves — instead of thinking the problem is the women.
Advice Seven female entrepreneurs on the price of passion Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? A bit of both, if the entrepreneurship panels at Women World Changers is anything to go by.
News & Views Unhappy employees a lot like those in unhappy marriages: New research There’s a simple method that can predict around 80% of divorces.
Leadership Sacked from a CEO role in her fifties, Shirley Randell went on to better things This is one of the most inspiring career stories we’ve ever told, and proves that success really can come at any age.
Advice Three career lessons from Melinda Gates When Melinda Gates entered the tech industry, the world was very different to what it looks like today.
News & Views Childcare is broken beyond repair and we need to start again Kate Ellis issued a fiery challenge to Australia yesterday during her address to the National Press Club – she asked if we were ready to unscramble the egg of childcare and early education and start again with a radically changed system.
News & Views Working full-time and travelling the country with kids: Is this Australia’s most flexible job? It took me seven months to pluck up the courage to write about what I believe is ‘Australia’s most flexible role’.