Posts tagged "businesswomen"

If women cannot even achieve parity of appointments in this scenario — the wake of the #MeToo movement — it’s difficult to imagine when they ever will.

The mini-documentary offering a glimpse into BlueChilli’s SheStarts accelerator continues, as the entrepreneurs develop their businesses, and themselves.

Women are doing better in functional executive roles but are finding it hard to advance outside of areas such as legal, compliance and human resources.  

Ariane Barker believes well-educated women are still struck by a pressure to find a balance between being the primary carer and having a career they want.

It’s almost two decades since the dotcom crash and Julie Wainwright has emerged once more, in her 50s, stronger and smarter than ever before.

Female investment managers make up just 17% of employees in the industry, which is described as a boys club rife with gender bias and inequality.

In April 2012, there we were, bank loan in hand and Xtend Barre Australia’s first franchisees. So here is what I have learnt along the way.

We are often told that women were excluded from this process, but women were central to the growth of professional work.

Women need to build and nurture the right kind of networks if they want to improve their chances of gaining access to capital and talent.

When it comes to funding, women are still getting crumbs, while men make off with the loaf.

I’ve been asked a number of times over the last few months what I think about quotas on boards. For the longest time it was a notion I’…

These five companies with female founders are not household names, but each one is doing great work in its industry, and each has recently undertaken a successful capital raising.