Posted on 07 May 2008. Tags: Business, Career Management, Networking, Supporting women worldwide, working women
What is it with this entire industry that’s emerged around networking events for women? I reckon there’d be a networking event taking place at any given moment across Australia in any of the leading hotels, convention centres or sporting clubs, all selling the opportunity to connect with other business people. And it seems about 80% […]
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Posted on 07 May 2008. Tags: Career Management, Flexibility at Work, Management and Leadership, Women in Leadership, working women
Ever found yourself in an auction bidding war with someone who simply wanted the purchase more than you? Up and up the price goes, bid by counter-bid, until your budget’s long gone and you’re exhausted from the paddle-waving that nearly broke your piggybank. This is called “emotional buying”, and professional salespeople are taught to build emotion […]
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Posted on 06 May 2008. Tags: Career Management, Management and Leadership, Women in Leadership, working women
The 2006 EOWA Australian Census of Women in Leadership highlighted the stark gender imbalance in senior roles in leading Australian companies. In Australia’s top 200 publicly listed companies, women held only 6 CEO roles and 12% of executive management positions. Yet we know that women enter most organisations – with the exception perhaps of traditionally skewed industries, […]
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Posted on 05 May 2008. Tags: Business, Career Management, Management and Leadership, The Glass Ceiling, working women
Some boots are made for walking – right into a top professional job, writes Marsha Jacobs in “Kick through that glass Ceiling” in the Australian Financial Review on 2/5/08. Apparently Australia’s leading business newspaper has finally realised it’s readership includes executive women – who have plenty of money to spend on Jimmy Choo shoes! I can just […]
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Posted on 05 May 2008. Tags: Career Management, working women
TheSheEOBlog is now the official blog of sphinxx – the website providing support for working women. If you’d like to access the sphinxx blog archives, visit www.sphinxx.org/blog Some of the topics will be transferred but most will remain on the old blog server.
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Posted on 19 April 2008. Tags: Gender Balance, Sexual discrimination, Supporting women worldwide
The issues of sexual harassment and sexual discrimination in the workplace are age old, but are attitudes changing over time or are they as prevalent as ever? It seems that cases continue to arise – like the Christina Rich settlement with PwC – where women are being disadvantaged in their career progression and opportunities by […]
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