Category: Women

Inspirational Women’s stories

Inspirational Women’s stories

I have just finished reading these 3 fabulous books. Amazing, moving, emotional stories that I recommend as a must read for everyone. A Thousand Splendid Suns- Khaled Hosseini The story follows the life of 2 Afghan Women and the war torn history of their country over 3 decades, spanning from the idyllic mid 1950s to [...]

Top 50 Australian Women Blogs updated

The Top 50 Australian Women Blogs have been updated. 2 new blogs have been added to the list this week Lifehacker Australia and Mobile Technology in TAFE. A special thanks to all the ladies posting about the list, helping spreading the word and all the wonderful positive feedback. I’m going to move to fortnightly updates, [...]

Top 50 Australian Women Bloggers updated

The list has was painfully updated last night (no thanks to Optus!) Please bare with me while the bugs are still ironed out in my processes, I’ll apologise in advance. We have a few new sites coming into the list.. Mummified Times Five Shai Coggins Just make money online We’ve had a huge response during [...]

Top 50 Australian Women’s Blogs

We Aussies are a proud and patriotic bunch aren’t we? I just love that no matter where you are we seem to manage to form a special friendship and community, like with our blogging. Our lists and groups where everyones a mate. Meg has done a fantastic job of helping to bringing us all together. [...]

Almost half of Australian women aged 18-41 were sexually abused as a child

Megan at ImginIf  writes about a story in the Sun Herald today. Research that shows a staggering 45 per cent of women were abused as children by family members, friends or strangers.  Abuse ranged from non-contact behaviour such as indecent exposure or being forced to watch pornography, through to rape. It found 75 per cent [...]

Raising a Business

Raising a Business

Starting your own small business, and working from home are becoming more popular than ever with Women in particular these days. Raising a Business, a woman’s no-nonsense guide to successfully growing a small business, is the much anticipated follow up book from Melbourne mum and author Sonia Williams. Her first book, Show Mummy the Money [...]

Work from home in your underwear

This is a question that is asked quite a lot in the forums. Women looking for ideas on things they can do to work from home. Doing a search, you will come up with tons of information on working from home in the search engines, but a lot of it is nothing more than a [...]

The Well of Positivity

Do you believe in the power of positive thinking? Well Mount Franklin does. That is why they have created the Well of Positivity. Together with your help, Mount Franklin would like to raise $250,000 for Breast cancer research. They have donated $100,000 and they would like your help to raise the other $150,000. It’s so [...]

What Women Want Australia

What Women Want Australia, is a new political party giving a voice to Australian women launches today in Brisbane. The party is set to contest the 2007 Federal election with a clear agenda; to improve Australian political life and policy through greater involvement of women. WWW is the brainchild of Justine Caines, a socially active [...]

In Saudi Arabia, a view from behind the veil

Times reporter Megan Stack writes about her frequent trips to Saudi Arabia and gives a small insight into the life of Women in the male-dominated kingdom. I spent my days in Saudi Arabia struggling unhappily between a lifetime of being taught to respect foreign cultures and the realization that this culture judged me a lesser [...]

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