Soapbox

Jenn J McLeod is nearly 60 and she is living my dream of life on the road with no strings attached. Since 2014 she’s been doing “the big lap very slowly”.

Episode five of our new podcast Work It Out is available now, great listening for the long weekend.

Ever get to 4pm and find yourself still in your gym clothes, even on the days you haven’t actually managed to get to the gym? It’s a problem Noa Ries knew well, especially after the birth of her first daughter.

You guessed it and now the early 2016 Census results prove it: women are doing significantly more housework than men.

It’s great that women are increasingly leading startups but it’s coming at a cost, with women paying themselves less in the process.

During a rather heavy news weekend, there was some comic relief to be found in an on-air mishap from ABC journalist Natasha Exelby.

Vladimir and Vera Nabokov in 1969.

A third of small businesses are now run by women in Australia.

The day i was slapped at work by a male colleague. Australian lawyer Jacqui Brauman speaks about a workplace incident that left her conflicted.

Ed’s Note: Rhonda Brighton-Hall received hundreds of emails and notes after she posted the below open letter to CEOs on LinkedIn in December last year, and says she’s since heard numerous stories of pregnancy discrimination happening just as she wrote it – women being made ‘redundant’ in their final weeks of pregnancy or in the month prior to their return.

“The AFL Women’s grand final has proven beyond a doubt that women’s sport has a strong and exciting future in this country.”

The childcare reforms passed by the Senate last week – the biggest in a decade – will reward some women and their children and punish others.