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Last year I reached a career crossroads.

Sharon Cook started at Henry Davis York as one of the first part time partners of a major law firm in Australia.

From flying high in London banking to pursuing gender equality in Sydney, QBE’s Jenny Boddington has been on an impressive journey Being offered an undergraduate position to study at Oxford is a remarkable achievement but it was not well received by Jenny Boddington’s father.

We have great educations.

I am 45 years old and own three businesses; yet I’ve had three mentors in the past three months.

When Fortune released its first list of the world’s most powerful businesswomen in 1998, most of those featured came from creative fields like media and publishing — and as it noted at the time, none who were heading up top “blue chip firms” .

Words can hurt.

Have you ever noticed when flicking through the newspaper, particularly the pages focused on business and politics, that the stories, pictures and quotations are dominated by men?  Quite often the only women you see are in the advertisements.

The 20th and early 21st centuries have brought innovative – and inventive – leaps forward that our forebears could never have imagined.

“What will I be when I grow up, if I am not a mum?” my 5-year-old daughter recently asked.

Who says girls aren’t interested in IT careers? They are – or at least they can be – if you give show them interesting and inspiring female role models who’re working in the field.