“If there were a chutzpah caucus in the United States Senate, Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) would be its natural leader,” wrote the New York Times last week in a profile of the senator.
Gillibrand aggressively fights for what she thinks is right, even if it means defying her party and bucking its leadership. As a fairly new and junior senator, she’s expected
Read MoreWhile so many organizations and business conferences struggle to achieve or are unwilling to look at gender balance and/or racial diversity, some folks are keeping it simple and getting it right.
In San Francisco today, hundreds of folks will gather for day 2 of the wildly popular Lean Startup conference, based on the 2011 book by the same name by tech entrepreneur Eric Ries.
Read MoreLinda Cliatt-Wayman is the principal of Strawberry Mansion High School (SMHS) in North Philadelphia, a school that has 94 security cameras, police patrolling the hallways, and an environment where students have been known to make direct threats against her life.
Read MoreOn my reading list for this winter is Marianne Schnall’s What Will It Take To Make a Woman President? In my dialogue work, my colleagues and I think a lot about which questions have the power to spur people to action and we often arrive at questions starting with this same “What will it take…” set-up.
Read MoreI never had a formal mentor. But I was incredibly fortunate that some people saw in me capabilities I didn’t see in myself.
Read MoreDo you have a mentor? Are you a mentor? Do you want a mentor?
Read MoreI spent last weekend “recharging”, as they say, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. (Ok, not exactly in the mountains—it was cold and there were reports of bears—but at least nestled between them at the always lovely Highland Center Lodge).
Read MoreAbout 91,730 women will be diagnosed with gynecological cancer this year and about 30,000 of them will die from the disease, according to estimates by the American Cancer Society.
Read MoreThis year I had the immense pleasure of attending the Pennsylvania Conference for Women. And I wanted to share with you four of my personal highlights and takeaways from the day.
Read MoreFeminists and economists alike have been buzzing about the latest data released from the U.S. Census Bureau that shows the gender-based wage gap has remained virtually the same for the past decade.
Read MoreEver feel like everybody is trying to “fix” women? Constantly trying to make women into better versions of themselves or something else entirely?
Read MoreJamera Lee Massop was an administrative assistant in New York when she became pregnant. She didn’t think being pregnant would or should impact her job.
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