Posted on 17 March 2011. Tags: Career Management, Employers
Despite the many initiatives aimed at attracting more women to the engineering profession, a recent study has found that it’s the working conditions that are driving women away. Of the 30% of female U.S. engineering graduates who worked as engineers but later quit the field, nearly halfsaid they left because of working conditions, too much travel, lack of […]
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Posted on 15 March 2011. Tags: Employers, Feminism, Supporting women worldwide, The Glass Ceiling
In last week’s celebration of the centenary of International Women’s Day, I heard a lot of comments from men and women about why we even need a day to reflect on the contribution that women make to our community, workplaces and economies. I listened patiently to the satirical talkback on ABC radio mocking the call […]
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Posted on 10 March 2011. Tags: Flexibility at Work, Looking After Yourself, worklifebalance
I’ve been pondering this idea of work life balance. Quite a bit lately, as a matter of fact, in another effort to understand what the link might be to getting and keeping more women in leadership roles. And the more I think about it, the more it makes me think… I want to have a […]
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Posted on 08 March 2011. Tags: Supporting women worldwide, The Glass Ceiling, Women in Leadership
Last Friday at the UN Breakfast celebrating 100 years of International Women’s Day I sat next to Rachel who keeps this pin inside her handbag and it stuck in my mind as I listened to the guest speaker Justice Unity Dow, and again last night as I watched a special screening of Made in Dagenham: Whether it […]
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Posted on 04 March 2011. Tags: Events
Are you up for a challenge, and a bit of fun too? If so, the team at the Fitted for Work Fashion Challenge would love you to come along to a movie night at the Dendy Circular Quay for a special pre-IWD screening of Made In Dagenham. At the same time you’ll be supporting Fitted for Work and […]
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Posted on 02 March 2011. Tags: Career Management, Employers, Legally, Policies Employers Need to Know, Quotas, The Glass Ceiling, Women in Leadership, Women on boards
March 2, 2011: Despite the Federal Government’s moves to strengthen maternity leave and benefits, Australian families remain worried about the affordability of childcare, saying they will vote for the party who offer tax breaks, the latest poll shows. New research, commissioned by the online businesswomen’s network group sphinxx in a poll, found that children and careers fail […]
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