Posted on 12 April 2012. Tags: Business, Career Management, Events, Supporting women worldwide
TiE Sydney’s annual Women Entrepreneurs’ Pitching Competition on May 1, 2012 is on again with a fantastic prize to Silicon Valley to attend TiEcon on May 18-20, 2012. TiEcon was named among ’10 Best Conferences for Ideas and Entrepreneurship’ by Worth …
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Posted on 12 April 2012. Tags: Bias & stereotypes, Career Management, Employers, pay equity, Salary and remuneration, Women in Leadership
Finsia is currently conducting follow up research to its 2010 survey of financial service professionals about their perceptions of the gender divide in the financial services industry, and is calling for volunteers to participate by completing an onlin…
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Posted on 12 April 2012. Tags: Career Management, Employers, Salary and remuneration, Sexual discrimination, working women
Two economists have released a report that says if a female HR
professional receives a resume including a photo from an attractive
female applicant, the resume is likely to land in the bin because of
jealousy and rivalry. The researchers sent bogu…
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Posted on 12 April 2012. Tags: Health Happiness and Wellbeing, Sexual discrimination, Supporting women worldwide
On Tuesday evening I attended a welcome reception for the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Rashida Manjoo (thanks to UN Women Australia for the invitation, and to Allens Arthur Robinson for hosting this important event). It was &nd…
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Posted on 04 April 2012. Tags: Sexual discrimination
‘While football has spent millions of pounds on campaigns to stamp out racism and homophobia from the game, sexism continues to be tolerated – whether that means thousands of fans chanting “slut” at a TV reporter during a live televised game, fem…
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Posted on 04 April 2012. Tags: Events
I’ve received invitations to these events in Brisbane which are guaranteed to be great – pity I can’t make it this time but I will be there in August for an event with CPA Australia – stay tuned for the invitations to that one!
The inaugural Wome…
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