(This is the third installment in a series on telling stories about yourself. The first is about key work narratives. The second is about service narratives.)
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In her last blog post, Gloria described an exercise that’s become a staple of her in-person Power Tools workshops: she asks participants, “On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your relationship with power?” One means “I don’t like or feel comfortable about power at all” and ten is “I love having and using power.”
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On May 13th, journalist Jessica Bennett sat down with Take The Lead president Gloria Feldt for a Virtual Happy Hour chat on “manterrupting”—that is, “unnecessary interruption of a woman by a man.” If you’re a woman in the workforce, you’ve probably experienced it at least once, and Jessica shared her insights on how best to deal with it, gained from both her years of writing about gender and business and her own personal experience.
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$150 million, to be exact. That’s the size of the initial fund raised by Aspect Ventures, Silicon Valley’s first female-led venture capital firm.
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Think sexual inequality has been around for all of human history? Think again. A new study in Science suggests that our prehistoric ancestors actually operated an egalitarian society for tens of thousands of years.
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Austin, Texas recently elected the first majority-female city council in the city’s history, with seven women and four men. City manager Marc Ott thought that meant it was time for some diversity training—which is when things started to resemble a scene out of The Office.
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Some call it volunteerism. Some say it’s advocacy. Some label it leadership.
It can happen at school, in your neighborhood, at your temple, or at your local rec center.
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The Council of Contemporary Families marked Mother’s Day by rounding up some recent studies on the housework gender divide, and the results are a mixed bag.
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New research suggests that when it comes to choosing their managers, workers don’t know what’s good for them. One-third of Americans say they’d rather have a male boss, 20% say they’d rather have a female boss, and 46% say it makes no difference—but female managers may be more effective.
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John Oliver thinks it’s ridiculous that the United States doesn’t guarantee paid maternity leave, and he’s using his platform to let the world know it. The award-winning satirical newscaster devoted a blistering segment on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight to exposing the hypocrisy of lawmakers who publicly celebrate their mothers on Mother’s Day but oppose paid leave policies. As he put it: “You can’t go on and on about how much you love mothers and then fail to support legislation that makes life easier for them.”
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You hear it all the time: women don’t help other women; women undermine one another at work rather than lift each other up. But pretty much every success I’ve had in my career has come from the support of other women. I’ve been lucky to have multiple mentors who have changed my life. Here are three lessons I learned from three mentors that shed light on how to find a mentor, and keep her.
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Dave Goldberg, the CEO of SurveyMonkey and husband of Sheryl Sandberg, died on Friday following a treadmill accident. He was 47.
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