Former employees at Australian tech darling Envato have criticised the startup for how it handles mothers returning to work, reports Dominic Powell in this piece first published on Smart Company and S…
‘If you don’t ask, they can’t say yes’: Meet Louise Pascale and LJ Loch of Outspoken Women
Louise Pascale and LJ Loch have long shared a vision for propelling more women into leadership, raising their voices and making them visible in the workplace. The duo started Outspoken Women, with the…
‘Slow & steady’ improvements but men still earning average 21.3% more than women
If you are seeking evidence that women in Australia are accelerating towards equality in the workplace with any great speed the latest figures from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) are sobe…
New research confirms millennial men are leading a backlash against women’s rights
In disturbing new research, millennial men — born between 1982 and 2000 — have been found to be leading a backlash against gender equality, write Virginia Haussegger, Pia Rowe, Mark Evans,…
New survey shows sexual harassment is rife, complaints are ignored & women fear for their jobs
A new survey on workplace sexual harassment has found that almost 75 percent of Australian women who complained to their employer were not satisfied with the outcome, with more than one in three sayin…
What happens when a man & a woman swap email signatures? ‘It sucks’.
The experiment in workplace sexism started by accident. A writer from the US, Martin R. Schneider (@SchneidRemarks) was liaising with a male client over email and it wasn’t going well. It was af…
Six career lessons from women in movies
There’s a lack of fictional women in top jobs across film and television, especially given the fact less than 30% of the speaking parts in Hollywood blockbusters are given to women. But over the…
Pay rise request rejected? Tips on what to do next
You’ve done your research and you’ve finally plucked up the courage to ask your boss for a pay rise, only to have your request denied. What do you do next? If all you hear from your manage…
Looking for a new job? Negotiate your salary before you say yes
How many times have you attempted to negotiate your salary package before saying ‘yes’ to a job that you desperately wanted? Chances are, like plenty of women, you simply said “thank…
The five biases that drive our decision-making
As leaders we like to believe we ‘make’ decisions and that they’re rational. Which is why it may be surprising to learn that we’re driven by a host of biases of which we are, f…
