Career & Business

In exploring pay, work/life balance and female entrepreneur journeys, we spark conversations about women’s financial independence and how readers can make informed decisions about their finances.

July 27, 2024

Scale Investors’ managing partner Samar Mcheileh on how its time for the media to flip the venture capital and gender script

Bad, depressing numbers? Boring. The economic and financial opportunities of investing in women and the products and services they create? Yes please.

Natasha Gillezeau

July 26, 2024

Tinybeans CEO Zsofi Paterson on what it takes to run a public company

Zsofi Paterson began her journey with Tinybeans as a user of the private family photo sharing platform before stepping up to the CEO plate in July 2023. As one of just 9 percent of women CEOs running an ASX-listed company, Zsofi shares what she’s learned so far on how to transition from running private to public companies.

Natasha Gillezeau

July 26, 2024

Giant Leap partner Rachel Yang on how diverse investment teams help keep each others’ biases in check

In the venture capital world, having "strong convictions" is often deemed important. But investor Rachel Yang has found that "having more views around the table" allows her team to make better decisions.

Natasha Gillezeau

July 26, 2024

What’s the deal behind the deals? Only 2-4 per cent of total venture capital goes to women-led companies – and we want to talk about it

BCG research has found that women-led businesses generate 12 per cent higher revenues using an average of a third less capital than their male counterparts. Imagine what female founders - and their teams - would be capable of with the same financial resources as their male peers.

Natasha Gillezeau

July 24, 2024

“I take it very seriously that I have a platform”: In conversation with Australia’s first female astronaut

Katherine Bennell-Pegg chats to us about the barriers she faced as a "young girl growing up in love with space".

Phoebe Saintilan

July 24, 2024

Five things we learned talking to Australia’s first female astronaut

From playlists to movie nights and spacewalking, Katherine Bennell-Pegg shares some interesting facts about life in space.

Missing Perspectives

July 17, 2024

How to create a neurodiverse workplace

Today’s workplaces can be tricky and tiring for neurodiverse folks navigate. Missing Perspectives contributor Kate May argues that creating “neuroaffirming” workplaces is entirely possible.

Kate May

July 10, 2024

What it’s like being a human rights lawyer and founder as a woman of colour

"I've often found myself the only woman of colour in the room. For the longest time, I didn’t think much of it — until a few years ago when I started to question what that really meant," writes Prabha Nandagopal.

Prabha Nandagopal

July 10, 2024

Camille Goldstone-Henry on building the Canva of biodiversity

Xylo Systems is a first of its kind software tool for tracking biodiversity. Here, Xylo founder Camille drops some hard-won wisdom four years into her entrepreneurial journey.

Natasha Gillezeau

July 8, 2024

Rachel Reeves becomes the UK’s first chief financial minister – and it took 800 years for it to happen

Labour Party MP Rachel Reeves has become the UK's first ever female Chancellor of the Exchequer - despite the role existing for 800 years (yes, you read that right).

Phoebe Saintilan

Latest news

11:41 am

Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts pens ‘Long Yarn Short’: A story of survival and a scathing look at the systems tearing families apart

9:56 am

First Nations women on what January 26 signifies and why they love Yabun Festival

3:36 pm

Sounds of Solidarity celebrates First Nations music on January 26

8:22 am

Meta’s new policies and Australia’s social media ban: Why marginalised voices could lose the most

Want more?

@missingperspectives

In the spirit of reconciliation, Missing Perspectives acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea, and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today. We acknowledge that land in Australia was never ceded and always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

Emma Hackett Design

Career & Business

Latest news

Want more?

What are you looking for?

Editorial

Want more?

Sign up to our fortnightly dedicated women’s sports newsletter and join our community today.