Catherine Fox AM is a leading commentator on women and the workforce, an award-winning journalist, author and presenter.
During a long career with the Financial Review, she wrote the weekly Corporate Woman column and for Boss magazine, and has published several books. "Stop Fixing Women” was awarded the 2017 Walkley Award for Women’s Leadership in Media, and her latest book "Breaking the boss bias: how to get more women into leadership" was launched in 2024.
Catherine helped establish the annual Financial Review 100 Women of Influence Awards in 2012 and was named a Woman of Influence in 2018. She has been a gender equality advisor to the Australian Defence Force, sits on the Australians Investing in Women board, and the Sydney Women’s Fund advisory council.
In 2022, she was awarded an AM for her significant service to journalism, gender equality, and diversity.
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The Gender Pay Gap is Real - Catherine Fox Interview
Equal pay can deliver huge benefits for our society and economy. Employment Law Principal Alex Grayson interviews Catherine Fox, author and journalist.Catherine Fox on Breaking the Boss Bias
Despite the surge of women into university, jobs and sitting in federal parliament, why are men still overwhelmingly running the show? This is the question longtime Women on Boards member and leading commentator on women and the workforce - award-winning journalist, author Catherine Fox - asks in her new book Breaking the Boss Bias which aims to bust the ‘dangerous myth’ that gender equity in Australia has been ‘fixed’. In the book - in which Catherine talked to more than 40 men and women and examined a wealth of recent data and reports - she argues that headline figures showing the number of women directors on listed company boards does a lot of heavy lifting in the gender equity debate - and is often used to “prop up the delusion of progress” - but that much less attention is paid to the low numbers of women chairing boards or in senior executive ranks. “The book is unashamedly about changing the composition of decision-making tables,” Catherine told Women on Boards.Libby Lyons and Catherine Fox Facebook Live
With three decades as a journalist and advocate, Catherine is one of Australia's leading experts on leadership, the future of workplaces and the status of women.
