News & Views

In a guest post for Forbes, Elissa Sangster, the executive director of the Forte Foundation, listed the top 10 traits of female business leaders and said the one thing they have in common is that they’re not deterred by the underrepresentation of women in business.

Further forging her spot as a leading tech CEO, female entrepreneur and Kiwi expat Victoria Ransom has sold her social media marketing business to Google for a reported $238 million.

In a country where women are encouraged to stand behind men, it is incredible to read that groups of them are risking their lives for their countrymen.

It’s heartening to read that the next generation of women are putting their beliefs into action.

Gender pay gap is a problem for most women globally but at least Australian women are able to openly discuss and debate it.

Decorated medical research professor Anne Kelso AO has been appointed the new CEO of the National Health and Medical Research Council.

Employment service Fitted for Work has appointed Donna de Zwart as its CEO to replace outgoing inaugural CEO Jane Hunt.

Politican and businesswoman Ruth Webber has been appointed CEO of Down Syndrome Australia, a position she will take up early this year.

Accomplished lawyer and businesswoman Sarah Fregon has been appointed the CEO of the Victorian Bar, a position she will take up in March of 2015.

For the past few years you would have been excused for thinking that it was primarily women in senior executive roles who were banging their fists and demanding the rules change so that there could be equal opportunity for women in executive ranks.

I was recently asked to consider the advice I would have given to myself as a 20-something woman with big dreams, knowing what I know now about how my career would pan out.

About six months ago I had cause to stand back and take a wholistic look at my priorities in life and how my career choices stacked up against them.