Angela Priestley

When she took the CEO role at AMD in 2014, the company was believed to be on the verge of bankruptcy. Today, it is one of Nvidia's biggest competitors.

For a budget centred around big spending for “investing in a Future Made in Australia,” it’s disappointing to see no new specific spending initiatives allocated for women’s entrepreneurship and women in startups.

Childcare costs are out of control in Australia and one firm wants to do something about it by offering a $10,000 childcare subsidiary to employees.

If you leverage the ‘Inspire Inclusion’ theme for your marketing or event efforts, you are complying with a UK-based firm that runs the internationalwomensday.com domain but offers no transparency on who is behind it.

High-end activewear brand Lorna Jane has a total remuneration gender pay gap of 37.1% and a median base gender pay gap of 36.3%.

While talk of workplaces becoming more “family-friendly” is heard across the public and private sectors, it’s essential to learn just how well all the rhetoric matches the reality for working parents and carers.

Sixty-two percent of funding deals went to all-male founding teams, compared to 12% for all-female founding teams and 26% for teams involving at least one female founder.

It’s one thing to learn about the morning routines of others that include jumping from bed directly into an ice bath to prepare for the “stress” of the day. But another thing entirely to learn that 7am business meetings are now taking place in saunas.

Australian businesses now have a “positive duty” to prevent sexual harassment, with new sexual discrimination enforcement laws coming into place.

Co-founder Christina Hobbs shared news of the acquisition on LinkedIn, five years after launching the first superannuation fund to be led by women and tailored for women.

The good news is that Australia’s total remuneration gender pay gap has dropped slightly, down 1.1 percentage points to a new low of 21.7%. But the real story could be in what’s to come over the next year.

Given the “top eight” list was based on numerical data garnered from a survey of the startup sector, seeing an all-male result come through was hardly surprising.