Opinion

At 64, Michele O’Neill has gone full circle from the first women on a broadcast camera 40 years ago at Nine to an international advertising career and now back to Nine. Tales of Kerry Packer aside, she’s a “kid in a candy store” with her new gig. 

Become part of the solution, not part of the problem, says Melissa Fein. Here’s what she has done to try and level-up inequality since becoming CEO at Initiative.

Women often have to work much harder to get equal recognition and work can become all-consuming. Getting the balance right is crucial, says Lou Barrett.

Michaela Michaut goes rogue to praise the contribution men have made in her career and challenge “women who rise but close the door behind them” to others.

Australia may have a world leading Covid strategy, but it’s completely failing to deal with the pandemic of inequality. Ask yourself what you’re going to do about it – and then do it, says Sunita Gloster. Gender equality 99.5 years from now is not an option.

This International Women’s Day seems different to previous years, says SMH Editor, Lisa Davies. As a nation, it feels like we are wrestling with a reckoning, a national acknowledgement of how women have been treated – and how and why that needs to change.

If you spent any time in the advertising scene in the ‘90s, then little of what follows will surprise. But when Amber Collins tells stories of her work life back then in adland to people who weren’t there, they look in disbelief. What she thought was normal then was completely wrong now.  Here’s her 'journey of enlightenment'.