Lean In at Monash University

Most of us realise that many women have a break from the workforce after having kids.

Did you know in Australia, men will generally end up working more after their partner has a baby, and are less likely to have formal and informal leave approved?

Capped full time hours are one of the proposals on how we can allow men to have lives outside of work (and for mums to participate more)

Men’s household participation? Cap weekly work hours Our take on the latest news and advice for career-minded, professional women.

Violence against women starts with disrespect and with subtle hints of sexism.

Using 'like a girl' as an insult and making excuses because 'boys will be boys' is NOT OKAY.

We ask that you speak up and call out sexist behaviour so that it doesn't perpetuate this culture of violence.

'He just did it 'cause he likes you': The ad that will shock Australia The Coalition government has launched a confronting new ad campaign, designed to get parents, teachers and coaches to clamp down on disrespectful and aggressive behaviour by boys and young men.

Today we saw first hand the power of calling out unfair behaviour. Congratulations to the two male law students who questioned a seemingly unfair decision by a student society at our own university. A decision which has now been changed.

This is why we invite everyone to get involved with our purpose and together we can put gender equality on the agenda.

Interested to test your own unconscious bias? Try this tool developed by Harvard: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

"Bias runs deeply in all of us... We need to accept it in ourselves, acknowledge it and then correct it," - Sheryl Sandberg

Understanding unconscious bias This animation introduces the key concepts of unconscious bias. It forms part of the Royal Society’s efforts to ensure that all those who serve on Royal Soci...

Some inspiration from an exemplary male leader who isn't afraid to use the F-word

Press release: “We need to challenge folks to step up,” says Canadian Prime Minister at UN Women... At a high-level event organized by UN Women, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka call on global leaders to do more for gender equality.

We had a good chuckle at this list! At one point or other most of us have found ourselves translating perfectly valid points into an apology to avoid sounding aggressive.

Ladies, our challenge to you this week is to express yourself without fear (you know, if you want.)

Famous quotes, the way a woman would have to say them during a meeting. I'm sorry to cut you off there, Dave.

It's undeniably the most important day on our calendar today - Happy International Women's Day!

Join us and for what promises to be an exciting year of progress

'Since November 1994, the gender pay gap has increased by over one percentage point'

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. It's time to start looking at new ways to ensure that there is equal pay for equal work.

www.wgea.gov.au

Let's put gender on the agenda! Will you be making a on March 8th, International Women's Day?

News - World’s largest economies are lagging behind in developing female leaders As the ‘Pledge For Parity’ sponsor for International Women’s Day (IWD) 2016, EY reaffirms its commitment to accelerating women’s advancement and calls for individuals and companies to move from talk to purposeful action in achieving gender parity.

“The more women help one another, the more we help ourselves. Acting like a coalition truly does produce results” - Sheryl Sandberg

At LIMU we aim to foster an environment where we build each other up, not tear each other down. We love Lily Singh’s discussion on . Check it out!

http://motto.time.com/4202795/lilly-singh-fight-bullying/

Lilly Singh: Why It's So Important to Compliment Other Women 'It's everyone's responsibility to build up other women'

And women everywhere respond with a collective "I told you so"...

http://motto.time.com/4214118/female-boss-higher-profit/?xid=time_socialflow_facebook

New Study Proves That Hiring More Female Bosses Leads to Higher Profits The findings suggest that gender diversity leads to profitability

Unconscious bias refers to a bias that we are
unaware of and which happens automatically.
It is influenced by our background, culture and experiences.

It is generally accepted that unconscious bias has an impact on hiring and promotion in the workplace. This article makes some suggestions for companies to avoid unconscious bias in their hiring. It also has an awesome link to some online testing developed by Harvard about unconsious bias across a range of categories- give it a go! You might be surprised by your results (we sure were).

Nine Ways to Combat Unconscious Bias in Hiring For anyone starting a company, a top concern is hiring the best people in order make up the strongest team. I place high value on diversity consideration...