Google partners with Dress For Success to upskill more than 100,000 Black women
Google's new initiative aims to overturn the bleak economic reality facing hundreds of thousands of Black women in the US.
Mentors are failing to accelerate women’s careers: But there’s a solution
Mentoring alone cannot help women break through career barriers, but formal sponsorship can accelerate gender balance in an organisation.
Government scraps Better Off Overall Test change from Fair Work reforms, and Labor stands firm on opposing whole bill
The government has caved to crossbench pressure to drop its plan to enable the suspension of the Better Off Overall Test for COVID-affected businesses.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the first woman to be appointed as World Trade Organization director-general
Nigeria’s former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed director-general of the World Trade Organization.
The shine theory: We need to debunk the myth only a certain number of top jobs for women
While the shine theory is relevant to all aspects of our lives, it is particularly suitable in terms of women in business.
How to support women-led businesses — and why it matters
Instead of fighting to break through the glass ceiling, more and more women are starting their own businesses, and we need to support them.
The full-time fallacy: Why Laura Prael’s business will always run four days a week
"Spending time on your hobbies awakens your creativity, provides you with fresh perspectives and boosts confidence to solve problems."
How researchers are using data science to map wage theft
What started as a few underpayment cases revealed by the Australian media in 2015 has turned into an epidemic of wage theft.
“Don’t just stand back and throw rocks”: Five business lessons from the Eddie McGuire saga
Yesterday, Eddie McGuire resigned as president of Collingwood Football Club, and he leaves behind five lessons we should all heed.
‘So much going wrong’: Damning inquiry into Crown Resorts offers lessons in corporate governance
An inquiry into Crown Resorts has come to the damning conclusion that Crown is not fit to hold a licence for its new Sydney casino.
Anthony Albanese proposes portable leave entitlements for insecure workers in major policy speech
Labor will reveal its policy plan ahead of the upcoming election, including a proposal to give insecure workers portable leave entitlements.
Victorian government provides funding for industry associations to hire mental health specialists
Mental health specialists will be employed to work with industry associations under a Victorian government program designed to offer support directly to small businesses.
