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Daily Archives: October 21, 2005
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by Sophie Hahn and Anne Litwin Published in Managing in the Age of Change: Essential Skills to Manage Today’s Workforce, Roger A. Ritvo, Anne Litwin, and Lee Butler, editors, Burr Ridge, Illinois: IRWIN Professional Publishing, 1995. Most everyone would agree with the assertion that boys and girls are socialized differently […]
Article By Fiona Carruthers Less than one third of women who earn under $30,000 a year receive paid maternity leave, according to a nationwide survey conducted by a Sydney University team. But the figure rises to almost two thirds of women in the $50,000 to $70,000 pay bracket, contradicting the […]
by Cindy Cavenagh ‘I had done something engineers aren’t supposed to do. I had got pregnant. I was in the wrong and therefore had to change my life-style to suit.’ This was a problem Elizabeth Taylor faced when she became pregnant with her first child eleven years ago. She is […]
Article By Adele Horin Women in the prime of life rather than men in their 60s are the key to tackling Australia’s looming labour shortage and retirement income crisis, a study shows. It says Australian women, aged 25-54, are the biggest source of underutilised labour, with large numbers out of […]
Making the jump from one job area to another… By Jenny Daisley from the Springboard Consultancy, a personal development consultancy. There was a time when people took a job and that was their life’s work – so once a barmaid always a barmaid, once a computer programmer always a computer […]
By Jenny Daisley from the Springboard Consultancy, a personal development consultancy Leaving employment for a few months, or even a few years, forms an important stage in the career of most women. But time away from the workplace can be disruptive and people re-entering the workforce often feel intimidated by […]
Congratulations to Cassy Anne Lawry from Victoria! Cassy is the first female to win the grand barista championships. Yayyy!! Cassy is also the first interstate winner. The annual championships are held by Dane’s Gourmet Coffee, hosted by the Sydney Barshow and have been contested now for five years. Anyone who […]
by Jeffery A. Timmons Listen to Beverly Morrison [transcript], who lost her house and $80,000 in cash because of a cosmetics business that failed. She bounced back from her mistakes and started over, this time in what has turned out to be a winning venture. Her climb out of despair […]