According to the Oxford Dictionary, a stereotype is “a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.” The example given is “the stereotype of the woman as the caretaker.”
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In the era of fake news, denials of facts in the face of evidence, and a culture comfortably morphing from the acceptance of truthiness to outright lies, how do you create a workplace of honesty and transparency?
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Doing the right thing can be the same as doing the smart thing. And culture shifts can happen; top tech companies are proving it.
Known for its raunchy, sexist television commercials as recently as mid-2016, Go Daddy has changed its ways and is throwing its energy into gender parity.
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Companies spend big money on gender diversity and inclusion training. There’s a good reason for that: attracting and retaining high-caliber female talent all the way up to the top leadership ranks comes with a long list of compelling results, ranging from lower turnover cost to higher profits. Female senior leaders have a positive impact on the bottom line.
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Are you a Chicken Little or an ostrich?
In a simple quiz, The Gray Rhino CEO and Founder Michele Wucker has outlined personality traits and solutions for you to discover the ways as a leader you identify and act upon obvious threats or upcoming shifts on the horizon.
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I pledge allegiance to the plan for gender parity in corporations of the United States of America by 2030.
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At a time when employees are fighting for paid parental leave for mothers and fathers, a new study spanning 40 years and tracking close to 5,000 women shows that some women who take time off their career paths to have children are penalized financially years down the road.
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The deliberate push for more women leaders in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and math has been expanding for the past decade. The movement begins with girls in grade schools, moving through universities and academia into C-suites of innovation and technology start-ups.
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It’s there. You are not crazy. So now what?
Implicit gender bias has hung around women leaders in the workplace in nearly every imaginable sector and discipline for generations. The bias surrounds the workplace culture in a fog at times thick and impenetrable, and at other times, a mist that only feels instinctively palpable.
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What do Papua New Guinea and the United States have in common?
Neither country has a national paid family leave law. Some suggest that solving the conundrums of working moms might be as simple as a national family paid leave policy.
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Some employees thrive on structure and routine, and prefer to have the details of their roles and tasks clearly outlined. However, preferring to follow rather than lead doesn’t necessarily imply a lack of desire for autonomy.
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In the 1980s I worked for a newspaper in Texas as a feature writer and columnist where staff parties of arrivals, departures and birthdays were held at the bar across the street. Often they included serving a cake decorated with a naked woman, complete with pink and black icing. I was in my 20s and not well-versed in the newsroom culture, but as soon as I saw the anatomically correct lady cake, I took three cocktail napkins and covered her sugar-coated image.
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