Posted on 01 September 2011. Tags: Career Management, Diversity, Employers, Gender Balance, pay equity, Women in Leadership
I’m supposed to be at an Equal Pay Day event right now… but I was so cranky that women still earn 17% less than men in equivalent roles that I decided to stay home. Instead of hearing more women speak about how unjust the gap is, and decree another call to action for the female […]
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Posted on 30 August 2011. Tags: Employers, Family Motherhood and Home, Gender Balance, Women in Leadership, working women
I’m deeply concerned about by the government’s announcement that the childcare rebate is to be reduced (yes – you read right: reduced!). As you’ll be aware, I recently co-founded the Make Care Fair lobby aimed at increasing childcare support and flexibility for Australian families… and yet the government has just announced plans to cut the […]
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Posted on 30 August 2011. Tags: Entrepreneurial Activities, Networking, Supporting women worldwide
I’m often asked “wouldn’t there be more women at the top of the food chain if they’d all just help one another?” Some of you will know that I’ve long held a view on The Rapunzels and The Ladderkickers (The Rapunzels are the ones you want to work with)… and last week I had the […]
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Posted on 23 August 2011. Tags: Health Happiness and Wellbeing, Offers, worklifebalance
This is a sponsored post from Fruit At Work – enjoy a 2 week trial at 50% discount for fresh fruit, delivered direct to your office With all those Apples and Blackberries dominating desks, you would think the Australian workplace is brimming with health. But in a wakeup call to employers, Fruit at Work’s latest […]
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Posted on 19 August 2011. Tags: Feminism, Heroes, women leaders
Gloria Steinem paved the way for feminism around the world and now, at age 77, she’s as committed as ever to the belief that women deserve an equal footing to men… but according to Steinem we’re not there yet. In this interview Australia’s own Belinda Luscombe, an editor-at-large of TIME magazine examines how Steinem has […]
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Posted on 16 August 2011. Tags: Career Management
Do you describe yourself as very ambitious? We know that 3 out of 4 women in the sphinxx network describe themselves as ambitious… but very ambitious? Turns out professional ambition is extraordinarily high among women in the emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India, and China, as well as in the United Arab Emirates, say Sylvia […]
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