During Sunday night’s 69th Annual Tony Awards, Fun Home’s Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron made history by becoming the first all-female writing team to win a Tony for Best Original Score. It was a big moment! It also would’ve been awesome if it hadn’t happened during a commercial break.
Read MoreMore proof that ageism and sexism do a company no favors: a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers has found that women over 55 tend to be the most qualified candidates to lead organizations through periods of transformational change.
Read MoreLeon Silver is a co-managing partner in the Phoenix office of Gordon & Rees LLP. He is also a member of Take The Lead’s board and a lifelong supporter of women’s rights.
Read MoreA glass ceiling that is nearly 800 years old has just been broken: for the first time in its recorded history, Oxford University will be led by a woman. Professor Louise Richardson, the current principal and vice-chancellor of the University of St. Andrews, was nominated last week to become the next vice-chancellor of Oxford. She will take over from Professor Andrew Hamilton next year.
Read MoreNow that is how you break the internet. Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce, debuted her new identity on the cover of Vanity Fair yesterday, and it’s all kinds of stunning.
Read MoreHillary Clinton isn’t the most powerful woman in the world, but she’s oh-so-close. According to Forbes, that title still belongs to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has held the top spot in their rankings since 2011. Hillary is right behind her at No. 2, and would certainly top the list if she became president, but with the U.S. general election a long 17 months away we’d be surprised if either Merkel or Clinton budges at all in next year’s rankings. At this rate, everyone else in 2016 will be fighting for third place.
Read MoreSome of the brightest researchers in the country are joining forces to tackle gender bias, Avengers-style. Harvard Business School announced a new Gender Initiative last week “to support research, teaching, and knowledge dissemination that promotes gender equity in business and society.”
Read MoreHow much of a difference can two years make? If you’re a young woman just entering the workforce, it turns out the answer is: a lot.
Read MoreSomeone in Congress has been reading the same research we have about the business case for women in leadership, and is doing something about it. Last Tuesday, Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) introduced the Gender Diversity Investment Act, which would encourage federal workers to invest in companies with female executives.
Read More(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.)
Read MoreIn 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.”
Read MoreOn 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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