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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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Working from home or living at work: How to avoid burnout in 2021

This will be far greater than the burnout we felt last year when, perhaps, it felt like there was a...

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Re-imagining Flexibility in the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet

In March 2016, the NSW government committed to making flexible work a normal part of the workplace for...

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What I’ve Learned: Olivia Fordham On Life Getting Better By Choice

Olivia Fordham never thought someone so small could change her world in an instant. When her daughter, Sophia,...

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What I’ve Learned: Sarah Giblin on knowing her value

Sarah Gilbin spends her time making sure everyone else at work is happy. Yet, only recently has she taken...

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Keeping In Touch In A Digital World

“Women have to see that our success is linked to the success of other women… I felt like I didn’t need the...

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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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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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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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