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The following speech was given at the Females In IT International Women's Day Sydney Luncheon on 25 March 2015. It’s a great pleasure to be welcoming you all to the Females In IT International Women’s Day Sydney Lunch on transforming the future for women in ICT....

Of three things guaranteed to rock you in life, I got them all at once. On the cusp of my forties, I had a baby, my relationship abruptly ended and I lost my job within the first two weeks of maternity leave. It was a trifecta of terror, and I spent my already...

When you imagine an inventor you probably think of them suddenly having a ‘Eureka moment’ and running to their basement to screw retractable legs to the back of a chair or throwing on a white lab coat and boiling chemicals over a bunsen burner. If only it was that...

This article originally published at The Muse Well, look at you. You've done it. After months of quietly exploring new, better career opportunities, you've landed a job that makes you giddy just thinking about. You've even mustered up the courage to tell your current...

Today is Equal Pay Day. Equal pay day is administered by Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) as a symbolic day to reflect the national pay gap. Friday 31 August, marks the 62 additional days from the end of the previous financial year that women must work to earn...

At high school, Jennifer Bramwell loved creative subjects including art history, classical studies and fine art. So it was a surprise when she fell in love with what may seem to be the opposite – mathematics. Her almost accidental romance with pure math came after she...

Katie Marshall of Mandurah is proof that woman can succeed in male-dominated fields. The 22-year-old chemical engineer has dominated Curtin University’s fourth-year engineering prizes, taking out three awards including top student and most innovative research project....

Daniele Cavini and his daughters feature in the Aussie Dads exhibition. Daniele Cavini, Senior Commodity Manager at HSBC Australia, shares his experiences taking parental leave, and explains why he is supporting a new campaign to encourage more Australian fathers to...

Corporate Australia is increasingly embracing diversity and inclusion to become a more attractive option for employees. But what does it really take to change a workplace culture and instill values of inclusion? Veronica Lakin, pictured left, is the Organization...