According to Fortune, GM CEO Mary Barra is the most powerful woman in business. The magazine just released its 2015 Most Powerful Women List, an annual ranking of the top 50 women business leaders in the world, and Barra took the number one spot for leading her company “out from under the shadow of its 2014 ignition-switch recall.”
Read MoreMeryl Streep—who, let’s face it, is probably busier than you—still found the time this summer to write letters to all 535 members of Congress asking them to support the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
Read MoreLeadership is first and foremost about developing others. I wrote this post to our fabulous and diverse and talented participants in our Train-the-Trainer program (we held the training at the beautiful Omega Institute) to share why my core workshop is so necessary for women now—how their role as certified “Take The Leaders” can accelerate women’s advancement to leadership parity.
Read MoreNoted anthropologist Margaret Mead once said: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
Read MoreKristen Griest and Shaye Haver were hailed as trailblazers when they became the first women to graduate from the Army’s grueling Ranger School last month. They showed the Army what it was possible for women to achieve—and now we know the Army was paying attention.
Read MoreSure, we can all agree that sexual harassment and Mad Men-era sexism have no place in a modern office. But what about when, say, someone jokes about women being overly emotional—that’s all in good fun, right? And women who get offended by it need to calm down and get a sense of humor, right?
Read MoreYahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced last week that she’s pregnant with twin girls. Just as she did with her first pregnancy in 2012, Mayer wrote on her Tumblr that she’ll be “taking limited time away and working throughout” her maternity leave. Last time, “limited time away” meant Mayer was out of the office for just two weeks after giving birth.
Read MoreCivil rights activist Amelia Boynton Robinson passed away on Wednesday at the age of 104.
Read MoreOn Sunday night, Jessica Mendoza became the first woman to announce a Sunday Night Baseball broadcast for ESPN. And she killed it.
Read MoreIf you think gender equality has a ways to go in the United States, just be grateful we’re not Japan. The World Economic Forum ranks Japan 104th out of 142 countries assessed in its Gender Gap Index, and women are only 11 percent of Japan’s managers and supervisors.
Read MoreWhen Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg emerged from their private worlds of practice and teaching onto the public stage in the early 1970’s, the women’s movement was actively moving to become the next legal social movement. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 which passed in the wake of the racial social movement also barred discrimination on the basis of sex, and women’s movement lawyers were starting to bring cases under it. Then, in the heady days of the 1970’s, anything seemed possible.
Read MoreThe growing impact of women entrepreneurs is evident today. Women-owned firms account for almost 30 percent of all businesses and one in five women-owned firms tout revenue of $1 million or more, according to research conducted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and its Center for Women in Business in 2014.
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