Rather than tell a single woman to change, we need to keep focused on the entire system. This year marked five years since the publication of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. It quickly became part of the zeitgeist, an offhand reference to the work women must do to succeed […]
“If the kind of things that get said in Australian boardrooms were said in the US, that meeting would be shut down and that person would be sent straight to HR.” It was the first evening of product manager Katrina’s company conference and the CEO had just started the presentation. “It began with a woman’s […]
A 2014 Human Rights Commission report found that an incredible one in five women had reported being made redundant, restructured, or not having their contracts renewed while pregnant, during parental leave, or upon their return to work. Becoming a mother is meant to be a time of joy, but workplace discrimination can leave pregnant women […]
A new study finally proves that working mothers are actually assets to a business, not liabilities. If you ask any working mother with babies or young kids, she’ll probably tell you that she feels like she’s failing in all of her roles—tired and checked out at the office, distracted and over-extended at home. She may not […]
