Congratulations go out to Natalie Isaacs and the team at 1 million women on yoursecond birthday! Since Nat started 1 million women just two short years ago, over 45,000 daughters, mothers, sisters and grandmothers have committed to protecting our climate, our communities and our future, leading change for the better. 1 Million Women is a perfect example […]
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Childcare is not a welfare issue – it’s a workforce participation issue and it’s why workforce participation by Australian women is amongst lowest of OECD countries
Posted on 31 May 2011.
Do you screen your phone calls? I do… quite often, in fact. I do it because I need to be in the right space to be in contact with the outside world, and so if I’m overly frazzled I let the voicemail take control. This is especially the case when a certain 2-year-old has been […]
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Cooked With Love – a fabulous last-minute mothers day gift that’s also supporting young Aussie girls at risk
Posted on 06 May 2011.
It was a pleasure this week to attend the launch of the new SISTER2sister cookbook fundraiser, Cooked With Love – Recipes my mother taught me. I was there as a contributor along with some of the other supporters of S2s who also shared the recipes their mothers had handed down, and most importantly my mum Kaye who flew […]
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L’Oréal Australia For Women in Science Fellowships – three x $20,000 grants on offer
Posted on 29 April 2011.
The world needs science… science needs women! And so applications for the 2011 L’Oréal Australia For Women in Science Fellowships open on 1 April 2011 and close on 2 May 2011. The three $20,000 Fellowships are intended to help early career women scientists to consolidate their careers and rise to leadership positions in science. The Fellowships are […]
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Go on… wish me luck… research shows it can improve performance after all!
Posted on 01 April 2011.
New research confirms what we women have known all along… There is such a thing as a good luck charm! Researchers at the University of Cologne in Germany have found that activating a positive superstitious belief can boost people’s confidence, which in turn improves performance. In an experiment, a dexterity task that normally took more than 5 […]
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What is going on with these mysogynist company boards?
Posted on 31 March 2011.
When I wrote on Monday about the appointment of Mark McInnes as CEO of Premier Investments your comments were loud and clear: not enough time in the sin bin for your liking. Reality is though, McInnes’ good fortune comes at the hands of an all male board who apparently rate financial performance over values (although we’ve seen from the DJ’s case […]
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