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 …
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…
Heart surgeon Dr Nikki Stamp’s trailblazing career is just the start of how she’s transforming women’s health
Dr Nikki Stamp is a trailblazer who has never been known to walk away from something that needs attention. As she tells Women’s Agenda, “I’ve never been someone to see something that needs…
Microsoft’s Lynn Dang is turning the dial for women in tech
Lynn Dang is passionate about turning the dial for women in tech. As she tells Women’s Agenda, “It’s not a lack of women wanting to be promoted, take up leadership positions, finding pathw…
From Afghanistan to corporate life: Lee de Winton is now running airports
Lee de Winton is the CEO of Sydney Metro Airports (Bankstown and Camden) with a portfolio that includes over 400,000 movements each year, training 2000 pilots annually and supporting a customer base o…
Hayley McQuire’s mission to see more Indigenous women represented in education
Acknowledging the different lived realities of women across class, race, ability and sexuality is the first step to eliminating racism. That’s according to Hayley McQuire, a proud Darumbal and S…
Jane Shand on QRL’s best-practice family-friendly polices
As an HR Executive at Queensland Rugby League Jane Shand is excited to be involved in introducing a suite of best-practice family-friendly polices for employees. These include providing all parents…
