Jessie Tu, Author at SmartCompany

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Google partners with Dress For Success to upskill more than 100,000 Black women

Google's new initiative aims to overturn the bleak economic reality facing hundreds of thousands of Black women in the US.

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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the first woman to be appointed as World Trade Organization director-general

Nigeria’s former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed director-general of the World Trade Organization.

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‘Last year, a mirror got held up to my face’: A Q&A with UQ entrepreneur in residence Sam Jockel

Sam Jockel is no stranger to launching successful ventures. In this Q&A, she shares how she steered her startup ParentTV through 2020.

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Google to pay millions to women and Asian workers in wake of “systemic” pay and hiring discrimination investigation

Following a US Department of Labor investigation into “systemic” discrimination, Google will pay millions to women and Asian job-seekers.

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How Tasmanian Women in Agriculture is taking on harassment and bullying in rural workplaces

When a 2018 national survey found that 93% of women working in agriculture have been sexually harassed in some form.

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“Sorely underserved”: Menopause healthcare is a $842 billion market in need of innovation

A new Female Founders Fund report reveals the needs of women experiencing menopause is a US$600 billion untapped opportunity.

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Aussies Shemara Wikramanayake and Elizabeth Gaines make World’s Most Powerful Women list

Here's what we know about Macquarie Group CEO Shemara Wikramanayake and Fortescue Metals CEO Elizabeth Gaines.

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Nine entrepreneurs to watch on this year’s 100 Powerful Women list

From entrepreneur Taraji P Henson to Making Authentic Friendships' Juliana Fetherman, here are nine of the world's most powerful women.

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Why this 16-year-old children’s food brand has turned to equity crowdfunding

Australia’s largest certified organic and additive-free children’s food brand Whole Kids is inviting the public to become investors.

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Just 14 of the CEOs behind this year’s Global 500 companies are women, and none of them are women of colour

For the first time in six years, no women of colour chief executives are on Fortune's annual Global 500 list.

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