Libby Lyons: The gender super gap and taking risks in your career

If you look at Apolitical’s 100 Most Influential People Working in Gender Policy for 2018 and 2019 you find Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Michelle Obama, the United Nations High Cmomissioner for Human Rights and first female president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet… and today’s guest Libby Lyons.

Libby started her career as a teacher, working her way all the way to Director of the workplace gender equality agency, to now Chair of SAGE – Science in Australia gender equity, and is a hugely influential Australian woman. 

She was featured in the book 200 Women, was awarded Woman of the Decade for Gender Policy by Women Economic Forum in 2019 and has presented multiple times at the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women.

She’s positive, high energy, has done it all raising a son in a time when there was no paid parental leave, and a woman after my own heart, has been quoted, “you’ve just got to have a party because you never know when it’s your last one.”

Living in the moment, whilst driving lasting change, I’m honoured to have the opportunity to speak with Libby, and hope you enjoy the episode.