Women With Clout

Hosts Jane and Catherine discuss discuss how fear led me to Harvard. Legal academic, filmmaker and writer, Larissa Behrendt, speaks candidly about becoming the first Aboriginal woman to graduate from Harvard Law School, her landmark feature documentary After the Apology and why her mum thinks she’d be the best astronaut ever.

Hosts Jane and Catherine discuss want more women on boards, please. Director of the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Libby Lyons, lets us in on the secret to speaking up, her terrible performance review ratings and why she thinks men should play more netball. Plus, Libby reveals what this year’s Gender Equality Scorecard says about how women are tracking in the workplace – and why we can still do better when it comes to women on boards.

Hosts Jane and Catherine discuss say whatever you do, don't learn to type! One of Victoria’s leading businesswomen, Elizabeth Proust, opens up about her transition from a stellar career in the public service to breaking barriers in the business world, the need for more women in the workplace and in leadership roles and how being brought up by Catholic nuns impacted her outlook on life.

Hosts Jane and Catherine discuss women helping women. Non-Executive Director and author Marina Go discusses her incredible career trajectory from editing teen magazine, Dolly, to closing the pay gap at Energy Australia and becoming one of the first women in history to chair a rugby league club, West Tigers.

Hosts Jane and Catherine discuss are committed to catching bad guys. Gold Walkley Award-winning investigative journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald, Kate McClymont, opens up about her extensive work both reporting on the Independent Commission Against Corruption and for the #metoo movement in Australia, probing into allegations of sexual harassment and assault against powerful men.

Hosts Jane and Catherine discuss a fairer deal for women. Executive Chairman of Carnival Australia and one of the country’s most admired businesswomen, Ann Sherry, discusses her successful push to develop a national policy on superannuation, the collective discomfort around the word “power” and why your career plan should be thrown out the window.

Hosts Jane and Catherine discuss the human face in business. Former head of the listed $2.5 billion Investa Office Fund, Ming Long, talks about becoming the first Asian-Australian woman to head an ASX200 listed company, why dialing up and down her “Asian-ness” helps her to connect with colleagues and the culture shock she experienced as a young child, after moving from Kuala Lumpur to Lithgow, NSW.

Hosts Jane and Catherine discuss the power of plain speaking. Socialist, feminist and political activist Sally McManus opens up about becoming the first ever female secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the rising popularity of the collective and why she doesn’t have a problem with breaking unjust laws.

Diversity in the workplace. Leading advocate for Indigenous and women’s rights, Nareen Young, discusses her progressive and feminist upbringing in Sydney’s Cronulla, what motivates her to fight so passionately for gender equality and why the term “corporate feminism” hasn’t done women any favours.