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A Sydney entrepreneur hoping to disrupt the fashion industry will try her luck on a new Chinese reality television program next year in a bid to win millions of dollars in funding.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that every pregnant woman hopes to deliver a healthy baby.

Women’s increased participation in the labour force over the past 50 years has outpaced changes to work organisation and social attitudes.

Almost every week in the national or business press there are articles about women in business, covering issues such as a lack of women in senior positions, pay gaps between men and women, the business case for gender diversity, and discussions about bullying, harassment and career discrimination.

The federal government’s new policy on paid parental leave is better than proposals from the last budget targeting so-called “double dipping”.

Gender bias, both conscious and unconscious, is the general name given to any of the many types of cognitive bias which occurs in a situation involving gender.

Looking back over our most read articles this year gives an interesting summary of the things we were talking about in 2015.

Betty Friedan.

When Roslyn went back to work nine months after the birth of her daughter, she braced herself for an onslaught of emotions: guilt, exhaustion, excitement tinged with anxiety.

EXCLUSIVE: Defence’s culture change progress report reveals women aren’t fooled when male bosses’ public enthusiasm is little more than a script and doesn’t match their actions.

As if it weren’t hard enough.

The words we use to describe successful people are different for women and men – and the words we use for success typically describe traditionally masculine traits.