Women At Work
There’s so much to balance when you’re managing a career and a family and it’s not easy, but you’re not alone. Women at Work, with Samantha Sutherland, who talks to working mothers about the juggle and the struggle, tips for navigating the workforce and how they manage their lives.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 83
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Imperfection and presence with Imogen Hewitt
Imogen Hewitt is Chief Media Officer of Publicis Media and CEO of Spark Foundry, having spent 25 years in creative agencies.
Recently, she was named #3 in Mediaweek Australia’s 2023 Agency 50 Power …
Women and Community with Lisa Grinham
Lisa Grinham runs the Sydney Women's Fund, founded on the idea that when you invest in women, communities benefit.
Leaving her corporate career behind Lisa moved into the charitable sector, and love…
Working for women with Padma Raman
Padma Raman's CV is impressive, to say the least.
Currently Executive Director of the Office for Women (OFW) at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, previously CEO of Australia's Nationa…
Why we need more women at the top and Breaking the Boss Bias with Catherine Fox
Catherine Fox is a Walkley Award–winning journalist who has spent two decades writing about women at work. In 2022 she was made a member of the Order of Australia for services to journalism and gend…
Mental health and amplifying minority voices with Cathy Ngo
Cathy Ngo is an entrepreneur, sought-after keynote speaker, and presenter. As the founder of Keynoteworthy, she is on a mission to add more minority voices to speakers and events.
She is a mother to…
The inner game with Yolanda Beattie
Yolanda Beattie is a leadership and high-performance team coach and facilitator. She's a career feminist and self-confessed growth junkie and brings personal development and the inner game into her w…
Shifting gender norms and how we spend our time with Sally Moyle
Sally Moyle has over 30 years experience in gender equity. She helped introduce paid maternity leave across Australia as part of her work at the Human Rights Commission. She contributed to the HRC's …
Louise Davidson on the barriers women still face and the Mother’s Day Classic
Louise Davidson AM is the CEO of the Australian Superannuation Council of Investors, and has had a huge impact on increasing the number of women on the Boards of Australia's largest companies, from 3…
Beyond the 9 to 5 with Samantha Sutherland and Lisa Corduff
The tables have turned in this episode, and Lisa Corduff is interviewing Samantha about her Beyond the 9 to 5 research, and the experience of working mothers right now. Sam shares what the research i…
Emma Walsh - Parents at Work
The number one policy that keeps women connected to the workforce is flexible working options, and Emma Walsh defines that as having the autonomy to manage your work around your family, and your fami…
Amy Taylor-Kabbaz on Matrescence
Amy Taylor-Kabbaz is an activist, changing the way the world supports mothers - in the board room, the birthing suite and the living room. When I first came across her work I had a giant chip on my s…
Angela Priestley - Women's Agenda
Maja Palenka on the unequal sharing of the mental load
Unequal sharing of cognitive and mental load is a huge barrier to equality within relationships, and leads to increased inequality in the workplace.
Maja Palenka is a certified organisational coach …
Mel Wilson on the mental load, getting clarity on what we want out of life, and the value in taking positive action
Mel Wilson is a journalist, author and host of the juggling act podcast.
She shared the stories she hears from women and the weight of the mental load that women still carry.
We talked about keeping …
Advocating for women, bias against mothers and finding meaning in your work with Kate Gunn
Kate Gunn is an entrepreneur and a feminist who has done what she can throughout her career to support other women.
In her life stage now she's looking at what makes her happy and how to find meaning…
Workplace discrimination, mother guilt and the second shift with Liz Budnik
Liz Budnik has spent her career in small businesses, and remembers taking the car seats out of her car before job interviews so that no one would judge her as less ambitious. Despite being more ambit…
Why balance shouldn't be a conversation just for women with Jinan Budge
Jinan Budge is a woman working in a man's world. She's sometimes one of 6 women in a room full of 5,000, and she uses her position of authority to agitate for gender equity wherever she can. As a gra…
Carolina Giraldo on businesses with a social conscience
Carolina Giraldo was eight months pregnant, facing the prospect of giving birth alone at the start of the pandemic and about to lose her business as retail sales completely stopped with the uncertain…
Wendy Tuohy on gender equality and women at work
Wendy Tuohy is a journalist and columnist focusing on gender equality, women and work, women's safety and social issues. This is a fascinating conversation with someone who understands what’s going o…
