Category: Womens Agenda

Friday marked the final presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden before the United States election, and it was a remarkably different event to the first debate which was described at the time as “90 minutes of personal barbs, insults, shouting and attacks”. Microphones were muted during candidates’ opening

Australia Post CEO and Managing Director, Christine Holgate has stood aside after giving evidence at Senate Estimates this week. The leader says she forgot how four Cartier watches worth a cool $12,000 had been purchased on her account and gifted to senior employees. Breaking late yesterday afternoon, the news sent

We’re profiling female chefs, cafe and restaurant owners over the next few months, thanks to the support of Uber Eats. These women are running incredible and innovative food businesses all over Australia, but many have been doing it tough due to the pandemic and in some areas the bushfires. Here, we

In NSW, women will face the greatest risk of housing stress as the impacts of the recession deepen in 2021, new research from Equity Economics forecasts. Women will also form the majority of the 360,000 people in NSW projected to be unemployed by July 2021. Equity Economics’ report, A Wave

A new Greta Thunberg biopic has drawn criticism from those who don’t see the value in the stories of young lives. But children’s voices matter — and Thunberg’s is potent, writes Kate Douglas, from Flinders University in this article republished from The Conversation. When a young celebrity writes a memoir

Aussie marketplace Buy From The Bush has secured a partnership with fintech giant PayPal, to turn what started as a humble hashtag into a permanent marketplace for regional businesses. In October last year, Buy From The Bush founder Grace Brennan started an Instagram campaign, encouraging Aussies to do some of

“Anyone who works with me will tell you that I talk really loud,” economist Jo Masters shares on the latest episode of The Leadership Lessons, a Women’s Agenda podcast series supported by Salesforce. Talking loudly was not always something that came naturally to Jo, but as her career has progressed,

I was a woman working in a man’s world throughout the 1980s and 1990s in my broking career and my experience since releasing my new book Shareplicity has done nothing to suggest that this has changed. The share market ‘gurus’ are predominantly men and your economic commentators in the media

It was slim pickings for women in this year’s federal budget. But, in papers devoid of childcare support and lacking boosters for women-dominated sectors, there was a small glimmer of light: grant funding for women entrepreneurs. Piloted for 2020, the Boosting Female Founders Initiative — or BFF Initiative — offers grants of

Macquarie Group CEO Shemara Wikramanayake and Fortescue Metals CEO Elizabeth Gaines have both made Fortune’s list of the World’s Most Powerful Women, the only Australians in the cut of 50. Below we share a few things to know about Wikramanayake and Gaines, as well as some of

Yarra Valley beauty business My Glow 2 has seen sales increase by more than 1000% during the COVID-19 pandemic, and founders Catie O’Neill and Olivia Burrows largely put their success down to a loyal TikTok following. My Glow 2’s flagship product is a silk exfoliating glove, inspired

This is the latest from our new column, ‘Dear Danni’, where Dannielle Miller shares tips on parenting kids aged 10+. Dear Danni, My ex was abusive. My daughter and I have been free from him for a few years, but now that she’s starting to date, I am terrified