If one definition of sexism is exclusion of women, then newsrooms and most of the media products they put out are sexist. Business newsrooms are among the worst. Sit down on any one day and count up the stories by men, about men, featuring pictures of men, quoting men as experts, featuring a bank of
NARROWING the gender gap in Australian leadership positions will be on the agenda on Tuesday, as some of the nation's top female leaders join an education seminar in Canberra. ''We’re a long way off gender equality,'' Helen Conway, a director of the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, said. ''There has been some progress, but two of
Women continued to debate the question of whether formal quotas are needed for their rise to technology leadership roles at last week's Cisco Empowered Women's Network lunch in Melbourne. However, some believe it's the work teachers are doing in schools and universities that will have the greatest effect in growing the next generation of female
