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Ever feel different? Like you don’t fit in, people are staring at you? Ever sit at your desk thinking people are on to you and that they know you don’t really deserve to be where you are? You wouldn’t be alone.

Should you be leaning in, leaning out or simply sitting up straight? Ever since Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg coined the term, Lean In with her call for women to work smarter, we’ve been hearing a number of variations of the phrase from those who claim to know what women really should be doing when it comes to their careers.

At the current rate of decline, it will take 75 years for the gender pay gap to close and the principle of equal pay for equal work to be realised worldwide, according to an Oxfam Australia report released last week.

Senator Michaelia Cash can talk the talk about gender equality.

Does the launch of tech entrepreneur Barbie and Google spending millions of dollars to get more girls coding, signal a watershed moment for female entrepreneurship? Historically, the ICT sector has seen some of the highest levels of gender inequality so for these big brands to be venturing deep into geek territory seems like a significant shift in how we perceive the female career.

This week was my birthday, and it led to a great deal of heartfelt thinking – not least because I was submitting my very first manuscript to a publisher, and as a result I had been bearing in mind amazing business books that have had an impact on my life.

The bad news is that one of the world’s most powerful organisations is 70% male and 61% white.

Gina Rinehart is Australia’s richest person and the 27th most powerful woman in the world, according to today’s annual power women list from Forbes.

It’s graduation season in the US which means a number of high-profile men and women will be delivering motivational, passionate and inspiring commencement speeches to thousands of outgoing college students over the coming weeks.

Sally Collins is a registered psychologist, a senior executive in finance, an author, a stepmother, a mother and a wife.

Arianna Huffington’s just released a new book sharing her views on ‘success’ along with plenty of lessons for working mothers and those seeking to re-examine their work/life balance.

Mergers and acquisitions are not uncommon in business but they can cause great uncertainty for employees as the inevitable restructure ensues.