Are you planning on returning to work or reviewing your career options so you have more work life balance?  Mums@work is proudly supporting mums & dads to return to work and kickstart their career  by running a ‘Career After Kids’ practical 2.5hr seminar facilitated by career experts to answer all your questions about getting back to work. This seminar has it all and is designed for parents on parental leave, looking to re-enter the job market or make a career change. Read More

We know that women control an estimated 80% of all household purchasing decisions... so why don't the salespeople we encounter get that and treat us as the intelligent consumers that we are?  Because until now they could! Read More

A great friend of sphinxx Sarah Drysdale has just launched an online kids boutique, cornflowerblue, and I can personally tell you how great my son Ethan looks in his new cornflowerblue stripy play suit, as you can see below! What’s best about cornflowerblue is it’s not just about styling kids, the brand is also about helping people and protecting the planet. You can choose from a wonderful collection of organic, fairly made and handmade labels from around the world and you will be supporting cornflowerblue’s projects giving back in India and Australia. Read More

Maureen Frank, founder of Emberin and a truly sphinxx leader, has penned an article in this month's Dynamic Business Magazine about Why women can have it all! Frank reports that with paid parental leave due to start in 2011, businesses need to help their female staff plan for their time off and help them come back to work afterwards.   Read More

If you have kids or members of your team are parents, this new website may be of interest.  The Thinking Parents Forum is a new community dedicated to inspiring the next generation of leaders and trail blazers - by inspiring the parents and opening discussions on all manner of topics related to young people, children and babies.   Read More

I love online shopping!  I use it for most of my personal and professional purchases - in fact I've bought almost all of my business equipment online over the past couple of years and I love the convenience.  But how annoying is it when you've just placed an order and then you find out the next day you could have got the same thing at half the price?? Read More

I recently wrote an article on tips for working parents that was published in The Age and on Essential Baby...  I set out 7 things that have helped me to maintain my sanity and my career post baby... well they definitely helped with the career part anyway!! Read More

It’s a big leap forward that ‘being a mother does not significantly change young women’s career ambitions’.  But Catherine Fox is right to point out that ‘many women will have different lives to the classic “ideal worker” model (“With almost equal pay comes a reality check”, Australian Financial Review, 7th April 2009 p.50).The question is: what does this mean for working women?  It may mean that careers are interrupted by periods of parental leave, and payrises awarded during these periods almost certainly won’t flow to the absent carers.  So they’ll return to work on their same remuneration (and probably less in real terms), while their peers have pegged ahead on the salary bands.   Read More

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New to Australia, a complimentary group of child care, parenting, human resources, and career management specialists have joined forces to create the Working Parents Toolkit – a practical guide and tool for employers to support expectant parents, employees on parental leave, and working parents. The Working Parents Toolkit offers both mothers and fathers practical advice and tools to:  Read More