Self-described “militant feminist” and chief executive and founder of Goterra, Olympia Yarger, was shocked when her company received more than 200 applications for its head engineer role last week. No…
Female High Court judges more likely to be interrupted than their male counterparts, new study finds
Female judges in the High Court are significantly more likely to be interrupted by lawyers than their male colleagues, a new study, reported by the Sydney Morning Herald, has found. Look at this story…
Investor bias is real & it’s bad news for women
A new study from Insead Business School, looking at data from 14 years-worth of data taken from 1,644 U.S public companies found that businesses that appointed a woman to its board immediately suffere…
Research ranks Australia 8th in world for proportion of women entrepreneurs
Australia is in the top 10 global markets for female business owners, with more than 30% of total business ownership belonging to women, according to new research. This year, we came in at 8th on the …
We are comfortable with women running companies…but not countries
While many people are comfortable with women leading businesses, they don’t feel the same about women at the top of government. This is according to a survey released on Tuesday from data consultancy …
Sex and gender analysis will improve unconscious bias in research
A new scientific paper finds that incorporating sex and gender could improve experiments, reduce bias and create opportunities for discovery and innovation. The paper, published in Nature, the world&#…
13 institutions win Athena award for advancing women in STEMM
Gender bias in the workplace is a complex and fraught issue, which makes the work being done to actively eliminate it all the more important. On Monday, 13 Australian institutions were awarded the Ath…
How to flourish in a man’s world
“She just needs a f*ck”. On a rainy day in a boardroom in Melbourne, this was the reaction from a group of men to a female technology professional who had challenged their approach to a technical solu…
These are the gaps that exist for women in sports administration
Women represent just 22% of board chairs and 13% of CEOs across more than 60 Australian sporting organisations. Why is there such an imbalance? It may be because, in some sporting organisations, women…
How to use AI to make better hiring decisions & drive workplace equality
Increasingly, Australian organisations are on a mission to create more diverse and inclusive workplaces. Workplaces need to allow people to bring their whole self to work; this will bring together peo…
