Tips from the Top

Telecom NZ CEO, Theresa Gattung, interviewed in the SMH after figures from the second annual survey by the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency show a “miniscule” improvement in the Australian corporate world’s gender imbalance. Gattung is one of just four women heading Australia’s top 200 companies. Her advice to the women in her field: “It’s very hard to become a CEO from the legal route or the HR route … at some stage you have to move into the innards [i.e money-making side] of the business.”