This column originally appeared in TIME magazine.
“Having it all would cost her everything.” That’s the tweet-ready tagline of the 2011 remake of Mildred Pierce, this iteration an HBO series starring Kate Winslet. I never saw it.
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Here’s news to go well with the eggs benedict from the Mother’s Day brunch, and perhaps some of the moms can pick up the tab.
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This is not just about a gender gap; it is about the combined barriers of a gender and racial gap in economic progress and how everyone can work to enhance the success rate of all women leaders. The good news is the recession was good for women entrepreneurs of color, but more movement to parity is needed.
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Numbers don’t lie. And until the numbers of women rising in leadership grow to a level of parity with men in leadership, women will continue to face challenges at all levels.
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I recently keynoted a conference of 200 of the most powerful women lawyers and judges in the country. Not one of them raised her hand when I asked who rated herself a perfect “10” on a 1-to-10 continuum of feeling comfortable with power—with one being “I don’t like or feel comfortable about power” and 10 being “I love it.”
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The push is on: From the White House to the National Girls Collaborative Project people are working toward more gender parity in STEM fields. However, recent studies suggest that it’s not enough to encourage girls and women to go into STEM fields. STEM workplaces need to treat them fairly once they get there.
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Follow this: Having a bright, spanking clean digital presence includes more than untagging yourself in all the photos where you are carrying a red cup, wearing a bathing suit and a huge smile. Your public footprint—or what has been called your personal brand for a while—needs to be impeccable. Because it is very true that your social media and digital identity needs to reflect well on your career in order for you and your career to move ahead. This is true for all women in the workplace.
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For many working women, whether at the beginning of their careers or comfortably moving toward the top, that ancient discussion of work/life balance might feel like a perennial nuisance that no one can get quite right.
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In Take The Lead’s April Virtual Happy Hour, Nancy Lublin, CEO of Crisis Text Line and creator of Dress For Success, shares how philanthropy is changing the world and offers solid office for women entrepreneurs. The author of several books, Lublin has won awards for her contributions to the nonprofit sector.
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Restructuring your office, company or organization to be more inclusive and female-supportive involves way more than adding pillows to the lounge in the restroom.
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Millennials get a lot of buzz– about what they’re doing, where they work, what they buy, what they think, what they click. And it’s mostly all good. But sometimes just listening to the stories of Late Blooming Baby Boomers who are leaders in their fields can be an inspiration for all women entrepreneurs in the workplace of any age.
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