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Try assembling this: IKEA airbrushes women from Saudi catalogues
Their instructions may be mind boggling, but there’s something else that defies logic from Ikea. The Swedish furniture giant has been the subject of international criticism for airbrushing women…
Yahoo! It’s a boy! Cue the work/life debate
Marissa Mayer has given birth to her first child just months after taking the helm of Fortune 500 company Yahoo!, and already the focus has shifted to her next due date: the one where she returns to t…
Have it all: Can we, can’t we? Not if the decisions we make are final
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has just given birth to her first child. Already, her plan to return to work within a couple of weeks has fired up plenty of forums on whether it is the “wrong” or …
Unsackable: why Alan Jones can say what he likes
Politicians are railing against him, social media is in meltdown and advertisers are pulling their spending. Yet, despite his insensitive comments about Julia Gillard’s father to the Sydney Univ…
Alan Jones: It’s ‘us and them’ when it comes to his thinking on women
Alan Jones’ outdated thinking on women became even more apparent during yesterday’s press conference in which he offered an apology to Prime Minister Julia Gillard for comments he made abo…
What a marvelous catch: Jacquie Hey set to become first female director at Cricket Australia
It’s only taken 107 years, but Cricket Australia is finally set to appoint a woman to its board. The move comes after a major governance review of Cricket Australia that provided an opening for …
‘Sack Alan Jones’: online petition puts pressure on 2GB
An online petition calling for Alan Jones to resign from public media is continuing to attract thousands of signatures, despite the 2GB host issuing an apology to Prime Minister Julia Gillard over com…
Why it’s time to redefine the traditional working age
The phenomenon of population ageing is often summarised in a simple ratio. Known as the dependency ratio, it measures the proportion of those of traditional working-age (15-64 years) to those above it…
J.K Rowling’s five reasons to launch a new career
Harry Potter author J.K Rowling’s worth more than $1 billion. She’s sold more than 450 million books and will long hold a special place in the history of children’s literature. She d…
