The AFL Women’s thrilling grand final last weekend has proven beyond a doubt that women’s sport has a strong and exciting future in this country. I was one of the more than 15,000 footy fans at Metric…
Wendy McCarthy: It’s 3 steps forward and 1 back for child care and early learning
The childcare reforms passed by the Senate last week – the biggest in a decade – will reward some women and their children and punish others. The reforms are good news for Australia’s around one…
Why I wore nothing but a swimsuit while delivering a professional keynote presentation
Speaking in front of an audience is hard enough. Below, BKindred founder Penny Locaso explains why she recently took such a challenge to another level — wearing nothing but a swimsuit on stage. …
Let’s stop congratulating men for showing up to women’s events
In the past few weeks I’ve been to three female-focused events where the MC or event organiser opened the session by asking the audience to clap for the men in the room. The reason for the applause? T…
Failing to market to women is costing serious money. But men don’t want to hear it
Caitlin Iles recently presented on how women offer businesses the greatest commercial opportunity of our lifetime. But only a handful of men showed up to hear her talk. It’s not just lazy for ma…
Success of AFL Women’s competition proves female footballers are in a league of their own
Major sponsors are bringing women’s sport to our televisions and into the mainstream. Felicity McGahan shares why Cotton On Group’s partnership with the AFL Women’s competition has b…
Eva Cox: Rethinking ’empowerment’ feminism to chase bigger goals
When it comes to feminism, do ‘women who want equality with men lack ambition’? Eva Cox, from the University of Technology Sydney explores what next for gender equality in this piece repub…
The truth about writing is that almost nobody is ‘successful’
Lauren Sams always dreamt of being an author and has just published her second book, Crazy, Busy, Guilty. So is she ‘successful’? Well that depends, as she explains below. Lately, I’…
How Australia completely missed the point about “women as a drain on the economy”.
Last week, apparently, the OECD published a “provocative report” claiming “stay at home mums are a drain on the economy”, imploring them to return to work. That’s not what the report actually sa…
Automation trends could threaten workplace equality. Here’s what we can do
CEO Jonas Prising believes workforce gender equality could be further threatened by current trends in automation. Below he shares some ideas for instead turning such trends into opportunities. Rarely…
