For a party chairperson looking for more success at the ballot box, the solution may be as simple as fielding more female candidates.
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The myth that women lack ambition is just that—and if you’re not convinced, here’s more research to prove it. A study from the Center for Talent Innovation found that women want five main things at work: freedom and autonomy to flourish; the ability to excel and be recognized for their achievements; meaning and purpose in their work; the ability to empower and be empowered by others; and financial security. In other words, women are plenty hungry for career success.
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A Swedish economist told the recent U.N. Commission on the Status of Women that workplaces with a balance of men and women are more satisfied, perform better, and improve their national economies.
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The thing about telling your story is… you’ve got to tell it.
As in: out loud. In public. In front of at least two to 47 other people.
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A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that men are the ones who benefit most when a company is performing well, but when a company is doing poorly, women’s compensation suffers more.
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This week’s GOOD court news: on Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of Peggy Young, a former UPS driver who lost her job after she became pregnant.
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This week’s not great court news: on Friday, a San Francisco jury ruled against Ellen Pao in her gender discrimination suit against venture capital titan Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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You’re pretty savvy.
You’ve learned some lessons, professionally and personally, and you’ve developed more than a handful of insights around these experiences.
You’re not a jerk.
At more than one dinner party, you’ve made at least two people laugh.
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It took them 194 years, but The Guardian will finally have its first female editor-in-chief: Katharine Viner, the current deputy editor and editor-in-chief of Guardian US. Before her selection, an internal poll of Guardian staffers showed “overwhelming support” for Viner’s appointment. Staff had no shortage of women to choose from, too: according to The Nation, of the four major internal candidates for the job, three were women. Viner will take over from editor Alan Rusbridger this summer.
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Identify a gap and take direct action: this is how companies move the dial for women’s leadership. Omnicom, one of the world’s leading marketing services groups, announced this month that it will bring Omniwomen, an initiative to increase the number and influence of female leaders in the Omnicom network, to the UK.
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UN Women is sorry if they gave Uber wrong idea, but they just want everyone to know that they were never officially together. Ten days after Uber announced a partnership with UN Women to create 1 million new jobs for women as drivers, UN Women backed out, stating that a formal partnership with the ride-sharing startup never existed in the first place.
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You can’t make this stuff up: during a SXSW panel that focused on diversity in tech, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson repeatedly interrupted fellow panelist Megan Smith (the CTO of the United States of America, no less)—and then were publicly called on that behavior by Judith Williams, the head of the Unconscious Bias program at Schmidt’s own company.
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