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Ask Danielle

This week, The Weekly's Danielle Colley tackles your questions about leaving a horrible work place, and approaching parents who smack.
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Dressing for success

Is there any truth to the old adage that you should dress for the job you want, not the job you have? We dusted off our sharpest suit and consulted the experts. Here's what they had to say.
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Pregnant women face discrimination at work

Pregnancy is now the number one reason behind workplace discrimination complaints, overtaking disability and family responsibilities for the first time. Of 235 complaints received by the FWO in 2012-13 pregnant women who felt they had been discriminated against at work accounted for 28 per cent, up dramatically from eight per cent in 2010-11. Historically discrimination […]
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Back to work for William as paternity leave comes to an end

Back to work for William as paternity leave comes to an end

Prince William is heading back to work after taking two weeks paternity leave following the birth of his first son. There were few things about the arrival and celebration of baby Prince George of Cambridge that gave him a start in life like any other newborn, and no doubt his upbringing will be vastly different […]
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How flirting can help you get ahead

How flirting can help you get ahead

Women may be filling seats in university lecture theatres and beating men to top jobs more than ever before, but scientists say the best way for a woman to get ahead is to employ her “feminine charm”. A US study suggests flirtation is an effective negotiation strategy for women when negotiating with men, rather than […]
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Women are more moral than men

Women are more moral than men

Women are known as the fairer sex and it turns out they are more moral too. Eminent philosopher Professor Roger Steare has claimed that women have higher values and ethics than men, with women over 30 being the most moral of all. Steare developed the ‘Moral DNA’ test in 2008 to measure how people’s values […]
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Cash or Christmas party?

Employers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on staff Christmas parties every year, but most employees would prefer cash. A survey of employees in the US found that 72 percent of workers would prefer a cash bonus to any other sort of Christmas perk. A pay rise was the next most popular Christmas gift (62 […]
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My Nightmare Boss

The Weekly’s Executive Editor Juliet Rieden recalls working under a boss so demanding she made Meryl Streep’s The Devil Wears Prada character look warm and friendly. Breeding the competitive spirit into a mean fighting machine was the ruling dogma at one of the most challenging workplaces I have experienced, a British newspaper office, and in […]
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Why have ‘women only’ networking events?

RECENTLY at a business awards night for a local women’s group on the Central Coast in New South Wales — I was at a very entertaining table with some interesting girls. All of them run their own businesses and most of them are pretty successful. The topic of why we go to women’s networking events […]
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Do you put work before your children?

THIS new UK research which gives rise to similar questions about Australian families, has found that the quality of middle-class family life is on the down-turn as working parents feel the pinch to work longer hours rather than spend time with their families at home. The Department for Schools government study of nearly 4000 parents […]
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