Mandy Foley-Quin is CEO of Stedmans Hospitality and the 2009 Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year. Foley-Quin was the guest speaker at today’s CEW luncheon hosted by Westpac Women’s Markets in celebration of the Veuve awards. She shared her story of beginning Stedmans from scratch 23 years ago as a single mum responsible for her six-month-old daughter and of growing the company into a major supplier of trained […]
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What can you learn from your leadership mishaps?
Posted on 24 March 2009.
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Women and Technology: The Ugly Truth
Posted on 20 January 2009.
This is a great discussion by Harvard academic Sylvia Ann Hewlett on the continuing gender divide in technology ranks.Excerpt:Women, it turns out, are excelling in science, engineering, and technology (SET). In 2007, girls won both the Siemens and Intel science competitions and walked off with 53% of graduate degrees in the biological sciences. Despite the […]
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Women the rising stars of financial planning
Posted on 18 January 2009.
Membership statistics from the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) point to a surge in young women embracing financial planning as a career. Executive director Richard Klipin said that “a lot” of younger female advisers have been joining the AFA over the past two years, which he attributes partly to its recently launched GenX program. Click […]
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Women Confront a “Grass Ceiling”
Posted on 16 January 2009.
Researchers at the University of New Mexico have identified a link between the placement of women’s tees on golf courses and their professional success. The farther apart men’s and women’s tees are in a region, they found, the fewer women there will be in sales management, general management, and marketing positions in the region and […]
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Post natal resources available for new mothers at The Smiling Mask
Posted on 06 January 2009.
The Smiling Mask is a book addressing the truths about postpartum depression and parenthood and is supported by a fantastic website – www.thesmilingmask.com – that is accessible to women all around the world. The goal of the book is to shed light on the realities that many mothers and families face when their lives are […]
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Younger women’s retirement incomes inadequate
Posted on 06 January 2009.
The Women’s Financial Network offers a range of workshops designed especially with women in mind. Some of the workshops on offer include: • How to Recession-Proof Your Finances;• Share Investment Mentoring Program;• Ongoing Sharemarket Program;• Money Smart Program; • Women and Retirement; and• Money Power. Women’s Financial Network offers services ranging from developing a financial plan, helping you […]
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