I came across this story by Ethan Bronner which I think is just a great way to cap out the week... a group of women who defied the laws of Israel with their own peaceful protest involving (of all things!) a swim in the ocean! Read More

Congratulations go out to Natalie Isaacs and the team at 1 million women on your second birthday!  Since Nat started 1 million women just two short years ago, over 45,000 daughters, mothers, sisters and grandmothers have committed to protecting our climate, our communities and our future, leading change for the better. Read More

Nominations are now open for the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award 2012 so if you know an Australian businesswoman who demonstrates leadership, daring, creativity and responsibility in her business life - it's time to nominate! The award recognises the extraordinary achievements of entrepreneurial business women; innovators, risk takers, leaders and visionaries, with a commitment to corporate social responsibility.    Read More

It was a pleasure this week to attend the launch of the new SISTER2sister cookbook fundraiser, Cooked With Love – Recipes my mother taught me.  I was there as a contributor along with some of the other supporters of S2s who also shared the recipes their mothers had handed down, and most importantly my mum Kaye who flew in from South Australia especially for the event.   Read More

Here are two dates that every Australian leader must mark IN INK in your diaries: 17 May in Melbourne and 19 May in Sydney.  These are the dates that sphinxx is bringing Avivah Wittenberg-Cox to Australia, together with The Growth Faculty, and we want you to be part of this ground breaking educational event.  Read More

Hooray! Today is not only the 1.1.11 and the beginning of a brand spanking new year, but is also the very first day of Australia's universal paid parental leave scheme and the first day of mandatory gender diversity reporting for listed Australian companies.  To celebrate these milestones the lovely Helene from www.e-lilianne.com is giving away one $50 voucher every week throughout the month of January to spend on gorgeous e-lilianne lingerie and sleepwear - and trust me, $50 will buy you plenty at e-lilianne!  To be in the running simply email your details to sphinxx@e-lilianne.com.   Read More

Thank you to all of you who continue to contact me with ideas, articles and good news to share.  I love receiving your tips and guest blogs and I'm very happy to publish them.  If you've sent something during November that hasn't appeared yet on The SheEO Blog, I send my apologies.  It is coming - and just caught up in a bit of backlog with all the travel over the past month for our final Ascend development day series and a number of presentations I was engaged to deliver around the country side.   Read More

"Until the Government looks like the society it seeks to govern there will be an imbalance in the decision making process."  Why has the number of female political leaders dropped? Partly because 9 out of 20 of the sitting members who did not seek re election were women, but also because women make up less then 2% of the Liberal National Party of Queensland, which reaped the rewards of the Labor backswing. Read More

There is a lot of election conversations happening everywhere, and I was forwarded this video from Get Up, that opens with Tony Abbot’s quote: "I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons" – quoted from Four Corners, 15/03/10, quoted from a piece he wrote on feminism, back in his undergraduate days.
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