For those of you who have developed a successful local program and are now looking to take it global, here’s a webinar you won’t want to miss. Catalyst has put together a panel of experts to help you in tailoring a women’s initiative to fit within a local cultural context, which will be critical to […]
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Considering Taking Your Women’s Initiative To A New Region? Then don’t miss the Catalyst webinar on this topic this week – register here
Posted on 21 September 2010.
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Glass ceiling? Or hour glass ceiling? New article on what stops women from getting the top jobs –is it gender or time? Or both
Posted on 17 September 2010.
“The ceiling is about time. We call it the hour-glass ceiling. It’s not about merit in that sense, it’s whether you can put that time in and whether society allows you to do that or not. It is a profoundly more powerful barrier for a mother compared to a father.” – Dr Lyndall Strazdins, Australian […]
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Stay at home dads – what it means for working women and why employers might want to start getting nervous
Posted on 10 September 2010.
In the US, dads are now approximately a quarter of the nations primary care givers to America’s 11.2 million preschoolers, while mum works. Almost 158,000 married fathers with kids under 15 left the labor force for at least a year to look after their kids. As we strive and achieve equal, and sometimes greater pay […]
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More Women Leaders – Time For A Different Approach: a guest blog from Lynn Harris
Posted on 07 September 2010.
One definition of insanity is to do the same thing again and again and expect a different result. If we want more women in senior leadership positions we need to take a different approach. The current one isn’t working. We’ve repeatedly called on Board Directors and C-suite executives to act on the strong business case […]
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The girl effect – the future of humanity? Watch this for some food for thought…
Posted on 06 September 2010.
Following on from my earlier post introducing Ghulam Fatima and the Plan GirlsFund, I received a link to this clip from Danielle (yes Danielle – you’re right – I love it!). Every one of you should take a look… it is definitely food for thought. And I dare you to watch this clip and not […]
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Are you pushing too hard to get ahead? Or not enough? A cautionary tale from Catherine Fox
Posted on 31 August 2010.
Last Friday I attended the AIM Great Debate in Sydney, which sphinxx was proud to sponsor. The topic of the debate was “Nice Girls Finish Second” and involved a swag of celeb speakers including Mia Freedman, Peter FitzSimons and Wendy Machin arguing in the affirmative and Catherine Fox, Lisa Wilkinson and Dr Cathy Foley arguing […]
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