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Dec 9, 2024 | 
futurewomen.com | Future Women
The FW Jobs Academy, an innovative program securing the economic futures of thousands of women like Melbourne mother-of-two Seimani Naidu, is accepting applications to help more Australian women over 40 to return to work and thrive. Seimani pressed pause on an impressive international career to raise her young family. When she was ready to rejoin the paid workforce she was shocked by how difficult it was to find work again. This changed soon after she found Jobs Academy.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
futurewomen.com | Future Women
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
futurewomen.com | Future Women |Michelle Brasier |Eden Timbery |Kate Kachor
It’s been 17 years since Arianna Huffington collapsed from exhaustion at her desk, broke her cheekbone and woke in a pool of her own blood. After that, The Huffington Post founder built a new empire aimed, very ambitiously, at ending stress and burnout. But while one reformed media mogul has made wellness her main mission (and mealticket), how have the rest of us been faring? The bad news is, in 2024, working Australians are fried.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
futurewomen.com | Future Women
FW is proud to announce the release of its inaugural Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) to support social and economic equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, with a focus on women and gender-diverse individuals. Founder and Managing Director Helen McCabe said the 2024 RAP, which has been endorsed by Reconciliation Australia, is a foundational next step in FW’s reconciliation efforts.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
futurewomen.com | Future Women |Eden Timbery
They say timing is everything and yet it’s so easy for our plans to get lost in the daily busyness of our lives. Constant meetings, reports, deliverables and deadlines – time just seems to slip away from us in the hustle and bustle of building a career. And, for women hoping to have children, there’s that ongoing race against the body clock too. But there are things we can do to take control amid the chaos, at least when it comes to planning for a family. The first is to get educated.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
futurewomen.com | Emily Brooks |Future Women |Kate Kachor |Sally Spicer
It was 1966 when the marriage bar was lifted. Before this monumental year, the law had ensured that any Australian woman who married promptly resigned from her job. Wifedom was a full-time role that prevented one from holding another position. Those women desperate to remain in the paid workforce were limited only to temporary work — the type of work that wouldn’t come with a promotion. The type of work that didn’t foster independence or self-actualisation.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
futurewomen.com | Future Women |Kate Kachor |Sally Spicer |Eden Timbery
DITCH Our inner critic The challenge of self-doubt will no doubt be a fixture for many come the new year. Yet, a change in mindset and approach could start your year off with renewed vigour. While that may sound a tad melodramatic, let’s put it into practice. If you regularly approach a work task with negative expectations then you’re not giving yourself the best chance to succeed. Why not consider a positive or even neutral approach? Remember, you have a choice.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
futurewomen.com | Future Women |Kate Kachor |Sally Spicer |Eden Timbery
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
futurewomen.com | Kate Kachor |Emily Brooks |Future Women |Sally Spicer
It was shortly before dawn one morning when a rugged up Lisa Leong stepped towards a large locked door and pressed the buzzer. Leong had braced the bitter cold and showering sleet to travel to Liberty Radio’s office on the outskirts of London. It was the year 2000 and she was there to ask a stranger a question she hoped would lead to more than a dry place to shelter.
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Mar 7, 2023 | 
futurewomen.com | Future Women
Future Women’s highly successful Jobs Academy would play a critical role in bridging a jobs and skills gap and securing women’s economic futures, under a plan announced by NSW Labor on International Women’s Day. If elected later this month, a Minns Labor government will expand Future Women’s Jobs Academy to support up to 1,000 more women in NSW. You’ve hit the glass ceiling. And our paywall.
