There should be more women on boards, says Crikey publisher and CEO Amanda Gome. But only when there’s more support for women entrepreneurs.
Working women
Women need to drop their standards
Advice to women: don’t bother trying to have it all, you’ll only fail. Balancing families and work with pretty clothes and home cooked meals can only end in disaster, writes Minette Marrin.
Irvine: Good childcare = more working women? Duh…
We need to stop wasting our women workers, mothers who want to work but won’t because of expensive and poor quality childcare. Perhaps if we had more senior government women, we’d already have this by now, writes Jessica Irvine.
Is the ‘working women need to be pushy bitches’ myth true?
A blog post about how women need to be pushier in the workplace got the blogosphere riled up this week. But with research showing that alpha-women earn more than their demure colleagues, will we have to raise our daughters to be aggressive jerks?
The failed partnership of work and families
Gaby Hinsliff was political editor of the Observer, the Sunday sister paper of The Guardian, until she finally gave up MP interviews to be a full time mother. An honest look at the work/life balance mess that parents — even those in exciting, fulfilling careers — are struggling to cope with.
Girls in Ghana carry a heavy burden
Tens of thousands of young women in Ghana have left their families in the country for the country’s capital city of Accra to work as “Kayayo” — porters carrying heavy loads on their heads for as little as AU$1.56 a day.
It’s a man’s world, but the ladies are running it
Hands down women are better managers. So argues Carole Smith, senior VP at the Elle Group. So it’s a generalisation, but she does have some interesting points about men and women in the corner office.
Women — why aren’t you running the world yet?
Charlie Brooker is disappointed: “We don’t need a few women in conspicuous positions of power scattered here and there — we need a 10-year prohibition on all forms of male power.”
