Ask any working mum what’s her secret to success and there’s one common denominator: access to quality and affordable childcare. Despite existing benefits and the introduction of paid parental leave by the Federal Government, Australian fam…
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Paid parental leave is popular with mums, but childcare still king
Posted on 29 August 2013.
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Lean In. Realise your fears. And then overcome them.
Posted on 28 July 2013.
Have you read Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead yet? Over 1 million copies have sold so far in at least 11 different languages; so if you bought one of them I’d be interested to know what you thought?
After flying all the way fro…
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Women in Leadership, Childcare Issues and chasing a Government Board position all the way to Canberra
Posted on 22 July 2013.
How was your weekend? They just seem to go sooooo fast, don’t they? It was a short one for me, with a 2-day strategic planning workshop on Fri/Sat with the management team at Third Horizon. So I’m playing a bit of catchup today …
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The he’s and the she’s of unconscious bias at work
Posted on 17 July 2013.
You might have heard about this guy who was applying for jobs back in the 1990s in the management consulting profession without success. Turns out his first name is Kim and it dawned on him – after countless knock-backs without so much as an inte…
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So the best financial executives are white men who wear ties?
Posted on 15 July 2013.
Obviously. If this FULL-PAGE ad on page 10 of the Australian Financial Review’s Weekend Edition is anything to go by, that is.
Clearly, the AFR does not imagine that Australia’s next CFO of the year will be a woman. Or Asian. They …
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Flip it: instead of justifying “why diversity on boards?”, let’s ask the current homogenous cohort to prove “why not?”
Posted on 04 July 2013.
A lot has been written about tokenism and diversity on boards. Ann-Maree Moodie, an expert in Boards and Governance, has recently explored the topic in the context of what it means to “lead for diversity”. In other words, what additional sk…
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