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Over-mentored, under-sponsored: the leadership act that moves the pay gap
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Over-mentored, under-sponsored: the leadership act that moves the pay gap

Every year, Equal Pay Day arrives to remind us of two numbers. This year they're 21.1% and 48 — the national gender pay gap, and the extra days the average...

Prue Gilbert
Prue Gilbert Founder and CEO of Grace Papers Lawyer and Gender Equality expert
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Reimagining progress in a pandemic

Zadie Smith once wrote that “progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled,...

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Debunking The ‘Baby Brain’ Myth And Using Neuroscience To Empower You

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare...

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What I’ve Learned: TransGrid’s Michael Lowe On Adjusting To The ‘New Normal’

Each one of us has been forced to adapt to the ‘new normal’ this year. Yet Michael Lowe has been adjusting...

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How To Tell Your Boss You’re Expecting, In The Strangest Of Times

“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg Communicating highly...

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What I’ve Learned: Woolworths’ Adam Mitchell on Raising Boys

Adam Mitchell has learned that his best is often good enough. As the General Manager of Foodco at...

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2020 Isn’t Over. It’s Time To Set Your Professional Vision

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all,...

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Egg Freezing, Ovulation Trackers: Common Fertility Myths Busted

“Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.” – Joan Didion In the span of a...

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Flying Solo: A winding road to empowered single parenting

“Option A is not available. So let’s just kick the shit out of Option B.” Dr. Emma Fulu appeared to have...

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From Little Things, Big Things Grow

Emotions drive so much of our behaviour – adults and children alike. The way to calm another person’s...

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A Recipe for Equality

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You...

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An Inclusive Approach to Parenting- Information Statement

Research Project Title: An Inclusive Approach to Parenting

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2020 has produced extra challenges for gender equality, but we must #KeepMindingTheGap

“I do very little negotiation with people. And they do little with me, in terms of it … if I was a woman...

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