At six years old, Liesl Capper’s parents handed her a gun. Irresponsible parenting? Not necessarily when you’re growing up in war-torn Zimbabwe and have just spent a terrifying night in hi…

This story was first published 18 January, 2013. It seems all that success women are enjoying at high school and university could actually be working against us. That’s the suggestion in a Harva…

This was first published on January 17, 2013. If you’re going to start a new business, you might as well dream big. And launch it in an exotic, beachside location. That didn’t quite happen…

Plenty of us are born with burning ambition, or at least develop it along the way, but for some a specific catalyst will be what drives a desire for success. Sometimes, that desire comes out of necess…

Today’s Golden Globe awards may feature plenty of female talent – including co-hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey – but they will feature just one female director: Kathryn Bigelow. The fact they fea…

As much as we might love what we do, we can’t always love the people we work with – especially when it comes to our boss. And yet so much of our productivity, happiness and satisfaction at work …

When you’re young and ready to start your first professional job, you don’t spend much time thinking about the gender pay gap. You don’t think about it because at that age you don…

I recently received an email from a reader that left me wondering if reading about the successful careers of women can sometimes feel similar to seeing those photographs of impossibly beautiful women …

David Gonski’s been a longtime supporter of getting more women on boards, so when the serial board member and one of Sydney’s most connected men makes a comment about how key leadership po…