There's so much to balance when you're managing a career and a family and it's not easy, but you're not alone. Women at Work, with Samantha Sutherland, who talks to working mothers about the juggle and the struggle, tips for navigating the workforce and how they manage their lives.
Today's guest is Dr Ashley McGrath, a self-described eternal optimist, fun friend, mum, step mum, wife, and a woman after my own heart, lives her life seeking forgiveness, not permission.
Ashley has a personal mission to have a positive impact on one billion lives. And she's well on her way.
As CEO of CEO's for Gender Equity, she brings together over 100 leaders committed to driving change within their businesses, and through the ripple effect outwards from there.
As a Doctor of Philosophy, she researched the inclusion of women in the mining industry, what really works, what doesn't, and now shares that insight across multiple industries.
Today we're making gender equity personal.
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12 Dec 2025
Annabel Crabb on what's changed since the Wife Drought
In all my conversations with women, the quote most often shared with me is this feeling we have as working mothers that we're expected to work as if we don't have children while raising our children as if we didn't have a job.
And today's guest is none other than the original author of that quote, Annabel Crabb, who's influential book The Wife Drought brought words to what women across Australia were – and are still – feeling; that women need wives, and men need lives.
Annabel's career spans journalism, television, writing, podcasting, speaking and generally being funny while she talks about smart things.
And now she's written a new children's book called There's a Prawn in Parliament House, so all the women who read The Wife Drought have something by their favourite nonfiction author to read to their kids!
Today's conversation is a meandering chat through how little has changed since Annabel wrote The Wife Drought in 2014, the progress that has been made, her take on shifting politics due to the influence of women, her new book, and maybe a bit of pop culture.
Enjoy the show!
14 Oct 2025
Closing the super gap while you shop with Lucy Kough
Women retire with 28% less super than men on average.
Women over the age of 55 are the fastest growing group of homelessness, driven in large part by lower or nil super balances.
And that super gap is driven by all the barriers we talk about on this podcast all the time - women are paid less so their compulsory super payments are lower, they take time out of they have children and super paid on that is minimum wage level and zero for extended unpaid leave, they face the motherhood penalty that means their earnings suffer after children, they are more likely to work part time…, whether they have children or not they do the bulk of care, domestic and mental load labour which reduces their workforce participation rates and lifetime earnings, and they have a gender available savings penalty that means it’s much harder to catch up with savings and retirement.
Today’s guest is determined to make a difference to the gender superannuation gap. Lucy Kough worked in advertising, with a superannuation fund client when she learned about the gender gap in super. And now shes come up with a solution. It’s called Tap the Gap, and today we’re going to learn what, why, and how it can impact you directly.
Enjoy the show!
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Emma Jones
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