The NFL is really stepping up its gender equality game in 2015. On Monday, the Arizona Cardinals announced that Jen Welter will join its coaching ranks as an assistant coaching intern for training camp and the preseason. She is the NFL’s first female coach of any kind.
Read MoreYou may have heard that Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift got into an EPIC Twitter fight last week. The Telegraph referred to the incident as a “spat.” “Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift and the Catfight that Completely Missed the Point” read a headline in The Independent. A Google search for “Taylor Swift Nicki Minaj feud” returns over eight million results.
Read MoreIs The Daily Show only for men? Is Last Week Tonight mostly for dudes? Did The Colbert Report only speak to your dad?
Read MoreAs a non-technical female working in the technology industry for the last 20+ years, I’ve found that not being technical has been much less of a career-limiter for me than being female.
Read MoreTheodore Roosevelt once wrote, “Comparison is the thief of joy.” At a time when we, as Americans, should be celebrating Serena Williams’s Wimbledon victory, we are reading and talking about her body. We are comparing her body shape and size to other women in the sport. We are printing articles about what Williams, herself, has said to criticize her own body in the past. And, as we continue to beat the topic and perfect the art of comparison, we are robbing her, as well as anyone else who follows, of the opportunity for joy. The joy of sweet victory.
Read MoreAccording to a recent TIME Magazine article, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair believes that “the art of leadership is saying no, not yes.” In fact, both Steve Jobs, the genius behind Apple, and Warren Buffet, the renowned investment guru, share that conviction. As Buffet puts it, “The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.”
Read MoreMarlene Sanders, who paved the way for women in television journalism, passed away last week at the age of 84. Her remarkable decades-long career saw her become the first female anchor on a network television evening newscast, the first female journalist in Vietnam, and the first woman vice president of news at a major network.
Read MoreBoth of Taiwan’s major political parties have nominated women presidential candidates, so unless something strange happens, Taiwan should elect its first female president on January 16th.
Read MoreAchieving board diversity for tech companies just got a lot easier. Joyus CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy announced the launch of the BoardList, a database for female tech board candidates, at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen last week.
Read MoreI admit, the only Kathleen Turner film I’ve seen is House of Cards, a 90s film about a little girl who has completely stopped speaking, whom her doctor believes to be severely autistic. Then last week, I had the pleasure of hearing Turner speak with Gloria Feldt in NYC about the importance of a woman’s voice. No joke. It was pretty spectacular.
Read MoreWe were born for reinvention—to remake our lives, to bring back and revive our true purpose and potential. We are here to be changed and to make change, not remain static.
Read MoreWe’re hearing more and more men say they support gender equality, and many of those men genuinely mean it. But if that’s true, why aren’t women feeling the effects of all that support in the workplace?
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