This isn’t about shopping. This is about the power you hold and wield every day with your wallet. Every woman-owned purchase you make chips away at a system built to extract and reward exploitation. Women build differently. And when we back them, we are not just buying products. What happens when profit comes first? Lovisa… Read more »
One of the reasons I stepped back from ageism and stereotype activism this year was encapsulated in an apathetic LinkedIn post by a well-known male digital and investor leader. The intention of shaming and internalised ageism expressed riled me and others up to no end. I couldn’t stay silent. It was not only inaccurate but… Read more »
As someone who has always been a minority in an industry, it was, embarrassingly, only in my 30s that I genuinely began to properly clock how tilted the stage is. Up until then, I was that person who said cringey things like “I genuinely don’t think I have ever experienced sexism or harassment”. Lol. Oh,… Read more »
Charlie Thompson (left), with her Clean Collective co-founders Charli Ferrand and Georgia Lawson. Photo: supplied. It’s no secret that raising funds as a female founder is tough. A Boston Consulting Group survey concluded that just 2% of venture capital funding reaches female-led companies – a statistic made louder last week by Kim Jackson passionately… Read more »
Flirt to Convert. The newest sales tactic used by Australian Women in Business?
The Village Coworking space in North Sydney supporting an event that uses blatant sexism in its promotional copy.
There are times when you just should keep your mouth closed about certain things, even when you don’t mean any malice by it – which I don’t think was the intention of Evan Thornley, cofounder of LookSmart and speaker at today’s Sunrise conference.
The founders of Atlassian, a 14-year-old Australian-founded maker of enterprise software, were quick to publicly apologise after one of the company’s engineers made sexist remarks in his presentation at the AtlasCamp developer conference in Berlin, Germany.
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