International Women’s Day: a balanced report
Culture The theme for IWD2019 (8 March) is #BalanceforBetter: The better the balance, the better the world. The bad news We still have far to go before the Australian workforce is gender-balanced. Firstly, there are financial imbalances: Full-time average weekly pay for women...
Attitudes to part-timers and flexible work key to management diversity
Culture This Insight is based on a speech I made at the launch of the UNSW Science alumni portrait exhibition showcasing equity, diversity and inclusion. In my youth, I didn’t think about diversity, much. My Hungarian father came to Australia on a boat with his...
Turning 7!
Business Growth To be frank, when I started gemaker, I hoped that it might last three years before I had to give up playing start-up CEO in my garage and find a ‘real’ job. My wildest dream was to make a positive difference to Australian innovation and research commercialisation....
Networking not working? Here’s the smarter alternative
Culture Who likes networking? I ask this routinely when training researchers in industry engagement. The response is always a collective groan. Maybe networking is fun for exceptionally extroverted people, but for most of us, it seems fitting that the word includes ‘work’,...