It isn’t news that women of color have to work harder, perform better and battle the pervasiveness of white privilege assigned to women in the workplace. But there is new research and insight into strategies to make workplaces more inclusive and create environments for success for all women.
Read MoreIt seems as if as a culture we are sending and receiving double messages in the workplace for women who have risen to the top in seniority. One is that recruiters are not looking for women over 40 to hire, while the other is that women in their 40s, 50s and 60s are the prime candidates for leading companies.
Read MoreAs Dr. Carla Hayden, the first woman and also the first African American who will head the Library of Congress, is sworn in this week, it seems a good time to take a look at the gendered legacy of American literary traditions from publication to reviews to prizes.
Read MoreWe fill out the feedback forms at conferences, in response to a new initiative, a follow up on a project. If the feedback is anonymous, we might be candid, maybe harsh. With our names attached, we may be more guarded and positive.
Read MoreAngira Patel, MD, is co-author with Sarah C. Bauer, MD. Patel is a pediatric cardiologist at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and assistant professor of pediatrics and medical education at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Read MoreSusan 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.
Read MorePlayground 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.
Read More“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.
Read MoreIt 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.
Read MoreI 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.
Read MoreTo 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.
Read MoreIt 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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