Susan Martinez, Eva Peron, Sonia Sotomayor, Jennifer Lopez. The images many have of Latina leaders whether political, historic, judicial or popular, are of smart women who are savvy and powerful.
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Playground wisdom reminds us that if you expose a bully by reporting the behavior, the bully retreats.
This may help some women CEOs, who are more likely to be bullied by shareholders than their male colleagues at the same level. A recent study from Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business says shareholders try to exert more influence on a company’s board of directors and top management when a woman runs the organization.
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“Some of our workplace policies look like they are straight out of ‘Mad Men,’” President Barack Obama said at the first-ever United State of Women Summit earlier this summer.
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It is way more than he said vs. she said miscommunication. It is not just sexism in workplace discomfort, it is a serious obstruction to fairness in the workplace. It is a colossal impediment to women leaders everywhere. And it is illegal.
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I once supervised a new employee who insisted that she spend her workday lying on her stomach on the floor in the center of the open office as she typed on her laptop, feet kicking. She also insisted she needed to be barefoot in order to concentrate.
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To count or not to count, that is the question.
Quotas have a checkered history, whether measuring diversity on a number of factors, or concentrating on gender alone and counting the number of working women in an organization or company, compared to the number of working men. There is pushback and there are failures to meet intended goals.
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It is in any company’s best interest to make sure there are women on its team. Studies show that companies perform more poorly when there are fewer women in executive positions than when there are a greater number of women in leadership.
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Keep on chugging along. Progress to gender parity at the very top is a mixed bag of good and not so good news.
As the appointment of women to the C-suite is so rare, it makes big news. And this is not necessarily good news, say researchers from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
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The paucity of women leaders in the tech industry is not news, but concrete efforts to make the male-dominated industry more diverse and inclusive is news, thanks to the introductory launch last week of Project Include.
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Here’s news to go well with the eggs benedict from the Mother’s Day brunch, and perhaps some of the moms can pick up the tab.
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Numbers don’t lie. And until the numbers of women rising in leadership grow to a level of parity with men in leadership, women will continue to face challenges at all levels.
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