Posted on 08 March 2011. Tags: Supporting women worldwide, The Glass Ceiling, Women in Leadership
Last Friday at the UN Breakfast celebrating 100 years of International Women’s Day I sat next to Rachel who keeps this pin inside her handbag and it stuck in my mind as I listened to the guest speaker Justice Unity Dow, and again last night as I watched a special screening of Made in Dagenham: Whether it […]
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Posted on 02 March 2011. Tags: Career Management, Employers, Legally, Policies Employers Need to Know, Quotas, The Glass Ceiling, Women in Leadership, Women on boards
March 2, 2011: Despite the Federal Government’s moves to strengthen maternity leave and benefits, Australian families remain worried about the affordability of childcare, saying they will vote for the party who offer tax breaks, the latest poll shows. New research, commissioned by the online businesswomen’s network group sphinxx in a poll, found that children and careers fail […]
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Posted on 24 February 2011. Tags: Women in Leadership
This is the question we’ve been posing in our sphinxx survey called Childcare and Careers – Do they mix? We’re keen to understand the impact of the affordability and availability on the career advancement of women – and so far the results have been amazing!We will be releasing the results next week in a media campaign. […]
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Posted on 23 February 2011. Tags: Employers, Events, Gender Balance, News, Offers, The Glass Ceiling, Women in Leadership
Here are two dates that every Australian leader must mark IN INK in your diaries: 17 May in Melbourne and 19 May in Sydney. These are the dates that sphinxx is bringing Avivah Wittenberg-Cox to Australia, together withThe Growth Faculty, and we want you to be part of this ground breaking educational event. CLICK HERE to download the event flyer. […]
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Posted on 21 February 2011. Tags: Events, Heroes, Women in Leadership, women leaders
Where are you drawing your inspiration from right now? I had the great privilige to sit between two inspiring women today at lunch – Imelda Roche AO was on one side and my friend Michelle Hartman of Deloitte was on the other. Michelle inspires me because she’s a person who’s not afraid to take on a challenge, which is […]
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Posted on 15 February 2011. Tags: Employers, Family Motherhood and Home, Feminism, Gender Balance, Salary and remuneration, The Glass Ceiling, Women in Leadership
At a networking event recently a businessman mentioned that his wife – a highly educated, highly experienced professional – had left her role in an accounting firm after their children were born because “after the cost of childcare it was hardly worth her while to continue to work”. Their children are now in school and […]
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