Gender diversity in leadership circles may not be hitting roadblocks because of men, a women’s networking group says, but because women lack confidence. Former banking executive Donny Walford, says women often lack the ability to self-promote. “Men position themselves extremely well, they tap each other on the shoulder, they position themselves and women don’t do
Mirvac's CEO Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz has been named the Telstra Business Woman of the Year for the private and corporate sectors in the same week as the company reached a 50/50 gender balance on its board. Hurwitz was appointed CEO of Mirvac in 2012, making her one of few women in senior leadership positions in the
Captain Georgina Sutton has been appointed as Jetstar's chief pilot for Australia and New Zealand, breaking the last barrier for female pilots at major Australian airlines. She will be one of very few women in the world to have held the top pilot job at a major airline globally, joining the ranks of Captain Davina
She might not be a feminist, but Australia’s first female Foreign Minister is a huge asset to the government and aspiring women leaders. Julie Bishop has had quite a November. In between outrunning her security detail at the APEC Summit in Beijing and being named "woman of the year" by several magazines, Australia's only female
Female lawyers and legal assistants could be earning as little as two-thirds what their male colleagues earn, with industry experts saying female lawyers tend to undervalue their skills. The Workplace Gender Equality Agency data, released on Tuesday, reveals a 35.6 per cent pay gap between male and female employees in the legal industry. This puts the
Speaking at a Women in Media event at the National Press Club this afternoon, Julie Bishop has raised a number of controversial topics. She started by commenting on being the only woman in cabinet, in saying “I pay tribute to all the women who have been cabinet ministers before me. The challenge I have set
Today, everyone’s talking about egg-freezing. Because apparently, it’s the silver-bullet for women who want a big career in the glimmering, money-encrusted compounds of Silicon Valley. Breaking new ground in the employee-perks department, Facebook and more recently, Apple, are offering to fund retrieving and freezing a woman’s eggs as part of her employee benefit scheme, effectively allowing
So it’s been a week since the Channel 10 premier of the highly anticipated Madam Secretary, right after the somewhat abrupt end to the season finale of The Bachelor, which still seems to be making headlines for the wrong reasons. Or maybe they’re right when you consider the old adage any publicity is good publicity.
A 2009 survey by French fund association AFG found that equity funds managed by women had produced more consistent results than those managed by males over a one, three and five-year period. The same year, according to the Financial Times, a poll by Ignites Europe found the majority of asset management professionals believe women make
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