Advice

I have just completed the process of teaching a group of motivated and enthusiastic women to write for magazines.

Be confident.

I have become strangely obsessed with The Newsroom.

When it comes to women’s empowerment, ‘money’ can still feel like a dirty word, as though there is something about financial independence that is still frowned upon, according to Dream Collective founder Sarah Liu.

My grandmother was one of the last of a generation of Chinese women to have their feet bound.

We spend our working hours narrowly observing our managers, no wonder their very positive and especially negative points stand out so vividly! Who liked the movie Horrible Bosses? Who fantasises about the things you could do with a trussed-up superior at your mercy? Particularly if you are enduring miseries at their hands? I get told about the ‘pin-stripe bully’, the ‘syrupy sweet assassin’ and many a ‘Romeo’.

I was fortunate to be seated in a courtside box yesterday at Allphones Arena in Sydney to witness our most successful national team, the Australian Diamonds, defeat their toughest international opponents, New Zealand’s Silver Ferns, by a record margin of 20 points.

When Jo-Anne Ruhl completed her doctorate in law, she never imagined herself entering the tech industry.

I was invited to a Sydney Dance Company rehearsal this week by non-executive director Naseema Sparks.

I enjoyed the women’s only Q&A panel on the ABC last night, but the fact that it is such a rarity is damning of Australian media.

I met a big sister for coffee this week.

Most people’s idea of work life balance is a myth but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.