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The successful Australian woman is passionate, driven, focused, determined and resilient - but she has had to make a number of sacrifices in the name of success, and while regret might be too strong a word, she is fully aware of these sacrifices and is striving to ameliorate them. These are the findings revealed in 'Long Way to the Top' a White Paper authored by Melbourne financial planner, Charmaine Curtain from Global Partnerships Financial Consulting.

Top Girls in Australia - who are doing it for the sisterhood

Recruitment firm Randstad surveyed 7000 Australian job seekers. The respondents were given a list of 18 factors, and asked to select those they considered the most important when choosing an employer. The top five chosen by men were totally different from the top five chosen by women.April 29 2011

Financial Times.com special report - women at the top poll

Opinion piece by Joycelynne Scutt "Mentoring is in the news. Businesswomen say nothing will change in top levels of management without it. Women need mentoring to gain board appointments, to become government department heads and CEOs, to succeed at any higher post. Now, with mentoring such a byword, even businesses are told that their boards are obsolete, that they require mentors instead. In that scenario, boards are out. Mentors are in".

The Australian Census of Women in Leadership measures the status of women on boards and women executive managers in Australia's top 200 organisations listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Applying the business principle of what gets measured, gets done, the Census is designed to establish accurate statistics to enable international benchmarking.

hange is afoot with reforms to the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act demanding organisations address inequitable pay and deliver tangible equality outcomes, with the first reports to be signed off by CEOs in 2013. But will the new legislation tackle the underlying cause of women's glacial rise into senior roles in Australian corporations? 

Inadequate career development has kept women from reaching the top ranks of the corporate ladder, according to a report set to be released Tuesday by management consulting firm McKinsey...