Business Less stressful being a business owner? Can be, says Young Businesswoman of the Year Anna Ross worked a number of different jobs before spotting a gap in the market for a unique new product.
Business The employers who want women who are out of work 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.
Advice ‘The reality is that you need support’: Dell MD Angela Fox on the program that’s supported 170 mentoring relationships 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.
Business The woman running Australia’s ‘coolest’ company 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.
News & Views The uncomfortable truth: Perpetrators of family violence are in our workplaces, along with 800,000 victims 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.
News & Views ‘The darkest corner of my life’: Labor MP Emma Husar describes how 29 years of her life have been affected by domestic violence 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.
News & Views Who is Nikki Haley? The woman Trump’s nominated to do US talking on the global stage US President-Elect Donald Trump has named South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as his top pick for becoming the US ambassador to the United Nations, someone he’s previously said is an ’embarrassment’ to the people she represents.
Money A focus on financial resilience out of reach for Muslim women We must include and support Muslim women when talking about financial resilience, says Maha Abdo, the CEO of the Muslim Women’s Association who shares her story below.
News & Views ‘I got labeled many descriptive words’: Male speaker on signing a pledge to only appear on gender-balanced panels What happens when one of the country’s most in-demand male speakers makes a public promise to never again appear on a male-dominated panel? Well as I learnt sharing a panel with Dr Adam Fraser recently for an Xplore For Success event, many people will celebrate the move, but others will question it.
Advice How to build determination, persistence and resilience Have you ever had to really fight that desire to give up? To push yourself to get to an outcome? Or conversely, have you become so obsessed by getting to a goal almost nothing will stand in your way? Determination is about wanting to achieve something and often this goes hand in hand with persistence and resilience; the ability to stick at something and when you face hurdles and setbacks, you have the resilience to keep going.
Money How the financial cost of domestic violence hurts women While Australia has a national conversation on domestic violence, some of the harms of this violence remain in the shadows.
Appointments Meet Australia’s first female Chief Justice of the High Court Justice Susan Kiefel is to be the next Chief Justice of the High Court, the first woman to occupy the position in Australia.
