Earlier last month I had the pleasure of speaking at the Ashurst Sydney Women's Internal Mentoring event on "The Importance of Mentoring for Career Success". Mentoring has helped me significantly throughout my career both as an employee, as well as over the last three...
Having it all. Juggling career and family. Work/life balance. These phrases likely conjure images of career women rather than men. Society’s obsession with whether or not woman can “have it all” implies that the answer is “no.” After all, if we believed women could...
Review of London Transport Museum ‘Summer of Engineering’ London museums are catching up to the importance of engineering and STEM being the focus of their exhibitions. When I picked up a leaflet at my local library, I was surprised to see London Transport Museum were...
By 2020, millennials will make up 35% of the global workforce & Gen Z will make up 24%. Together, that's more than half the entire workforce population. It’s essential that businesses adapt their workplace policies to hold onto these powerful employees who are...
I received an email the other day, as I do every day from the Herald-Sun newspaper. The email summarizes the main stories of the day and allows me to click on a link and read a story if I choose. Quite normal for any newspaper in these digital days. "However, one...
Today is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. The date is significant, as it is marks how far into 2018 a black woman needs to work, in order to make as much money as a white male in 2017. As a black woman who is the mother of two daughters, I can’t help but wonder – where...
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For anyone working in a role within the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) space, it will come as no surprise to hear that DEI in 2022 will be full of new challenges. What will they look like and how can you prepare for them? That’s exactly what we asked one of...
CEO and Co-founder Gemma Lloyd spoke to the WORK180 team in our latest #Grow180 conference, about her personal experience with discrimination while working in the tech industry, and how that lead to the beginning of WORK180. Watch the video below to see what Gemma had...
“The ‘Meraki Magic’ is real!” For Sammy Brenner, as soon as she joined the team at Cisco Meraki, she knew her life was about to change. From her initial interview, where the people she met “were so real and genuine,” to the office tour which “wowed” her, the whole...
As a young Sri Lankan immigrant woman, Nisha Thirumurugan is no stranger to challenges. From developing an award-nominated robotic hand to founding a start-up, all while working to pay her way through university, Nisha turned the obstacles she faced into opportunities...
After the trials and tribulations of 2020, we asked leading employers which employee benefits their organization wouldn’t be without in 2021.
Many organizations challenged the stereotypical ideas about women’s needs in the workplace, implementing and upgrading impactful benefits and policies that truly support women’s careers.