Anam Javed is an is a high school teacher, a new mother, and an advocate against Islamaphobia, especially gendered Islamaphobia, in Australia. She spent two years managing the Interfaith Portfolio of…
Kelly Morton: Leaders need to know the traditional 9 to 5 doesn’t always need to exist
Kelly Morton knows that the traditional 9-5 workday doesn’t exist anymore. With men and women employed in the modern workplace, responsibilities to career and family transcend gender roles, and …
A letter to her 21-year-old self by Dr Kirstin Ferguson
Dear Kirstin, If you could see where you will be when you write this to yourself in 25 years’ time, trust me, you would not believe it. All the dreams you have for your future right now don’t begin to…
Merit is not objective & defined by some standard set of clear-cut criteria: Sarah Goss
Sarah Goss takes issue with the line ‘based on merit‘. “I think it’s problematic when people say that recruitment, promotions, professional opportunities, pay rises, and other such d…
How Stella Petrou Concha left medicine & pursued a career as an entrepreneur
“I knew from a very young age that I wanted to help people and, as a kid, I thought that looked like being a doctor,” Stella Petrou Concha says. “I worked very, very hard during that…
Mary Konstantopoulos wants to hear more women talking about sport
Mary Konstantopoulos has been a footy fan and Parramatta Eels supporter all her life. In her younger years, rugby league was simply a way to spend more time with her dad and brothers on the weekend. S…
How Verve Super CEO Christina Hobbs is shaking up super for Australian women
Christina Hobbs is determined to disrupt Australia’s superannuation space. But until she spent a decade working for the UN in conflict affected countries like Syria and Iraq she never thought ab…
