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Tanja Kovac has been appointed CEO of Victoria’s peak body for Gender Equity, prevention of violence against women and women’s health and wellbeing.

Cathy Morcom has recently been appointed CEO of the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia (IPWEA) an organization with 4000+ members.

Of the CEOs in the Fortune 500 companies, 33 are women – an all time record. That’s 6.6%. Of the 500 biggest global companies, it’s 2.8%.

It is five years and two months since Marius Kloppers took over as CEO of Australia’s biggest listed company, BHP Billiton.

Just 16 months into her five-year tenure as our first ever full-time Race Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Helen Szoke has announced she’s leaving the post in order to take up the role of Chief Executive with Oxfam.

Since becoming Yahoo! CEO in July this year, Marissa Mayer has unwittingly led the troupe on the work/life debate.

Toro Energy appears have achieved a rare accomplishment with the announcement of a new female chief executive.

The column that I wrote last week detailing a friend’s stay or leave dilemma made mention of the impact that skilfully managing up had on a person’s promotional prospects.

Billabong CEO Launa Inman has announced she will step down from the troubled surf retail maker, seeing the number of female CEOs on the ASX drop even further.

Another day, another sex scandal.