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	<title>Women&#039;s Network Australia Blog &#187; Social Debate</title>
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		<title>Women in small business &#8211; have they been forgotten?</title>
		<link>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/women-in-small-business-have-they-been-forgotten</link>
		<comments>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/women-in-small-business-have-they-been-forgotten#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 05:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just for Women]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Workplace Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As part of last week&#8217;s IWD activites the Minister for the Status of Women, Kate Ellis announced the appointment of Helen Conway as the Director of the Workplace Gender Equity Agency (WGEA). Previously known as the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA), it is a new federal body given new powers that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Female Employers Seeing Red (Tape)</title>
		<link>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/female-employers-seeing-red-tape</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you an employer? Hope you are ready for the extra burden and red tape that the Paid Parental scheme will impose on your business? Because unless there are some radical changes very soon the Government will expect you to become one of their Paid Parental Leave pay clerks? ]]></description>
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		<title>Female PM &#8211; Do kids put women out of the game?</title>
		<link>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/female-pm-do-kids-put-women-out-of-the-game</link>
		<comments>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/female-pm-do-kids-put-women-out-of-the-game#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just for Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Debate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stats and Facts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[female PM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[women need to sacrifice children to make it.bem]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/?p=1111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the 20 years that I have been heading up WNA women have made headway in so many areas and in others there's so much work to be done. Not sure if you caught the content of a recent survey of head hunters in the UK, it suggests that taking even a few months' career break for the sake of children can harm a woman's prospects of winning a top executive job.]]></description>
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		<title>Do We Really Have To PUSH Women On To Boards?</title>
		<link>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/do-we-really-have-to-push-women-onto-boards</link>
		<comments>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/do-we-really-have-to-push-women-onto-boards#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhondalynn Korolak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Female executives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Debate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[equal opportunity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/?p=575</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first arrived in this country several years ago, I struggled to find anyone who would hire me in a senior management capacity.Â I found this puzzling since I have two degrees, two professional designations and very solid work experience with recognised international brands.Â The MAIN reason I was given by organisations was that I &#8220;lacked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What lack of childcare places? Government&#8217;s take is that you are just imagining it</title>
		<link>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/what-lack-of-childcare-places-governments-take-is-that-you-are-just-imagining-it</link>
		<comments>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/what-lack-of-childcare-places-governments-take-is-that-you-are-just-imagining-it#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[childcare issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Childcare needs in Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lack of childcare places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudd Government backflip on childcare]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/?p=860</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whilst women are continually finding it a struggle to secure childcare places, it seems, according to the Government, they are simply imagining there is an issue. Not sure if you read about it, but late last week the Rudd Government broke its 2007 election promise to build 260 new childcare centres. Apparently the reason behind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imitation book lacks two vital ingredients</title>
		<link>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/imitation-book-lacks-two-vital-ingredients</link>
		<comments>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/imitation-book-lacks-two-vital-ingredients#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Strategies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Four ingredient recipes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How to protect a business idea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just 4 ingredients]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim McCosker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachael Bermingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stolen business ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trademarking a business idea.]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/?p=292</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, whilst shopping in K-Mart, I was a bit surprised to see one of the oldest and well known national women&#8217;s magazine&#8217;s name appearing on the cover of a book titled &#8216;Just Four Ingredients&#8217;. Now I might be wrong but didn&#8217;t the concept and idea of cooking with 4 Ingredients originally belong to bestselling authors [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Babes are likely to be out of the budget</title>
		<link>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/babes-are-likely-to-be-out-of-the-budget</link>
		<comments>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/babes-are-likely-to-be-out-of-the-budget#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[maternity leave]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/?p=74</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week-end the Government will receive the Productivity Commission&#8217;s recommendations on Maternity Leave. It appears that after all the carry-on about this idea it&#8217;s not going to evenÂ get a look-in as part of the May Budget. It seems the Nation is not in an economic position to implement it &#8211; well the Government had heaps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stimulus a no-go for many women</title>
		<link>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/stimulus-a-no-go-for-many-women</link>
		<comments>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/stimulus-a-no-go-for-many-women#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/?p=66</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have received hundreds of emails agreeing with my lack ofÂ enthusiasm for the Government&#8217;s proposed stimulus package. The consensus of opinion is that one off bonuses are not the way to go, but rather a combination of infrastructure projects, tax cuts and one off payments going only to those crippled by the economic fallout. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stimulus needs a re-think</title>
		<link>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/stimulus-needs-a-re-think</link>
		<comments>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/stimulus-needs-a-re-think#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/?p=62</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How insignificant the economic woes of the Nation become when one considers the tragedy that&#8217;s unfolding in Victoria. Today you would be hard pressed to find anyone anywhere in the country complaining about their loss of employment or weeping over the hit they&#8217;ve taken on their investment or superannuation funds. It&#8217;s a sobering time for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Money &#8211; What do women really think?</title>
		<link>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/money-what-do-women-really-think</link>
		<comments>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/money-what-do-women-really-think#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Debate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/?p=45</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who won&#8217;t be glad to see this year tick over? The never ending financial doom and gloom portrayed by the media is enough to put anyone off having fun. For many business owners life is proving to be very tough and if the pundits have it right not much is going to improve in the [...]]]></description>
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