Posted on 25 March 2011. Tags: Employers, Events, Gender Balance, Offers
Have you registered yet for the Avivah Wittenberg-Cox programs in Melbourne and Sydney? If you are responsible for finding and keeping talented women in your organisation (and let’s face it – who of us isn’t?!) then you need to hear what Avivah – the global thought leader on gender balanced business – has to say. Avivah will […]
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Posted on 23 March 2011. Tags: Bias & stereotypes, Employers, Quotas, Women in Leadership, Women on boards
Seems everyone is now weighing in on the quotas debate with our Governor General, Quentin Bryce becoming one of the latest champions for mandatory female representation on boards. As I’ve said before, I’m a supporter of quotas largely because it’s time. But even I don’t believe – in the short term – they will have a material impact […]
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Posted on 17 March 2011. Tags: Career Management, Employers
Despite the many initiatives aimed at attracting more women to the engineering profession, a recent study has found that it’s the working conditions that are driving women away. Of the 30% of female U.S. engineering graduates who worked as engineers but later quit the field, nearly halfsaid they left because of working conditions, too much travel, lack of […]
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Posted on 15 March 2011. Tags: Employers, Feminism, Supporting women worldwide, The Glass Ceiling
In last week’s celebration of the centenary of International Women’s Day, I heard a lot of comments from men and women about why we even need a day to reflect on the contribution that women make to our community, workplaces and economies. I listened patiently to the satirical talkback on ABC radio mocking the call […]
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Posted on 10 March 2011. Tags: Flexibility at Work, Looking After Yourself, worklifebalance
I’ve been pondering this idea of work life balance. Quite a bit lately, as a matter of fact, in another effort to understand what the link might be to getting and keeping more women in leadership roles. And the more I think about it, the more it makes me think… I want to have a […]
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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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