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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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Ways we can beat the gender pay gap.