From real estate to entrepreneurship, one of the constant discussions since women have entered the workplace in large numbers has been how women can achieve a work-life balance. From tech giants encouraging women to Lean In to the number of women who opt out of the workforce entirely, the concept of balance is a highly divisive and heavily debated topic.
Women know a lot about giving support. They support friends, families, partners, colleagues, children. But when women start their own businesses, for myriad reasons, support can be conspicuously absent.
When Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg lost her husband suddenly in 2015, her colleagues weren’t sure how to react. They stayed silent to avoid adding to her pain, and Sheryl, already reeling from the shock and grief, was left feeling isolated and invisible.
It wasn’t until she opened up in a heartbreaking Facebook post that co-workers, friends and strangers began reaching out. It made for a painful, but poignant, lesson – one that the high achiever and bestselling author decided to share. Teaming up with psychology professor Adam Grant, Sheryl drew on her experience to pen a book on grief, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy, to help people deal with tragedy and give those around them tools to offer meaningful support.
Four young Australian entrepreneurs have given their top tips for making it big before the time you're 30. The business founders spoke at Macleay College entrepreneurship forum in Sydney.
Their message was simple — the world is accepting entrepreneurs younger and more readily than ever before, so just throw yourself out there. Here are some of the best nuggets of advice given by the women at the forum, as reported by Techworld:
Recent research studying grape growers in Champagne, France, has potentially wider implications for women in business, having shed light on the financial power of informal relationships that develop among women who work in the same industry.
The research, outlined in the Harvard Business Review, focused on a market in which women are firmly in the minority, making up only 14% of the researchers’ sample.
Despite having jam packed ‘to do’ lists and lots going on, many business owners will inevitably think, ‘Jeez this running a business thing is lonely business.’
A lack of support, a feeling that everything rests on their shoulders, and a sense that there is no one there for them are often fuelling these feelings of isolation.
From the boardroom to home, there is no doubt there are more opportunities than ever to stay connected.
Today is equal pay day – the day that shows how much longer a woman has to work from the end of the financial year to earn the same as an average man. At Imalia, we believe that society needs to change, at every layer, to redress the imbalance that has been allowed to develop between men and women.
There’s a new force emerging in the business world that not many people are talking about yet, but I think will be on the radar pretty soon: women who have paid their dues in the corporate world and at the age of about 35 decide to strike out on their own and start a business.
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