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Male founders outnumber women in 2023 Smart50 Awards, showing more work needs to be done
The SmartCompany team has reaffirmed its commitment to creating more pathways to celebrate and recognise women-led businesses, after the 2023 Smart50 Awards list featured a majority of companies founded by men.
Coaches and incubators need to stop misleading women in business
Australia has no shortage of entrepreneurship programs, incubators, startup workshops, and business leadership courses aimed at encouraging more women to start their own businesses, but are they selling a pipe dream instead of actually helping women?
Rural women’s business award is a “gift that keeps on giving” for winemaker Ali Paulett
The 2023 South Australian winner of the AgriFutures Rural Women's Award wants to pay her success forward.
A few large raises doesn’t mean the current funding for women-led startups in Australia is acceptable
The latest Cut Through Ventures report has some good news regarding funding for women-led businesses in Q1. But we invite you to look beyond a couple of big raises.
Nearly 700 women-led startups hit by new delays to $11.6 million Boosting Female Founders grant
The Boosting Female Founders scheme is facing fresh setbacks, with the federal government telling nearly 700 applicants not to expect updates before June — an eight-month delay to the program's initial time frame.
Women are still underrepresented as startup founders. Here are three ways we can help change that
We need to look at how we can create a pathway for more women to become founders of tomorrow’s companies, says Gabrielle Munzer from Main Sequence Ventures.
My biggest mistake: Steph Claire Smith and Laura Henshaw, co-founders of Keep It Cleaner
The two Keep It Cleaner co-founders say their biggest mistake hasn’t been one specific moment, but rather an ongoing, general gaffe: underestimating themselves.
This eco-friendly, female-led underwear business is also helping support the refugee community
NISA's business model focuses on upskilling staff and supporting them with language learning, with most staff from refugee or migrant backgrounds.
Women ‘doing it all’ is a myth. It’s time for business and government to step up and help
It’s time we recognise the notion of women ‘doing it all on our own’ for what it is. A myth. An impossible fiction that's damaging to women’s identities and demeaning to our value.
Intrepid Travel’s ANZ leadership team to be all-female for the first time
For the first time in its 33 year history, the world’s largest travel operator Intrepid Travel has an all-female regional leadership team operating in Australia and New Zealand.
Two in five board members must be female, Matt Kean tells Treasury corporations
Businesses have been put on notice about getting more women into top roles after NSW Treasurer Matt Kean set formal gender diversity targets for state-owned and public financial corporations.
