To count or not to count, that is the question.
Quotas have a checkered history, whether measuring diversity on a number of factors, or concentrating on gender alone and counting the number of working women in an organization or company, compared to the number of working men. There is pushback and there are failures to meet intended goals.
Read MoreWe all know perhaps firsthand about the side effects of working with someone who is a Debbie Downer, but how about the after-effects of working with a person in the office who is always looking for help?
Read MoreIt is in any company’s best interest to make sure there are women on its team. Studies show that companies perform more poorly when there are fewer women in executive positions than when there are a greater number of women in leadership.
Read MoreIn spite of the international accolades for architects such as Jeanne Gang of Chicago, who has changed the face of building design in this decade (and earned a MacArthur Foundation genius grant in the process), architecture and design remain difficult industries for women to prosper and rise to the top. Strong leadership of women in many design arenas is the foundation for progress.
Read MoreMillennial women are hot. Brands are after them, companies are recruiting them, media is trying to understand how best to serve them and leadership programs have their interests at top of mind.
Read MoreWe all know what it means to have someone on our side. We’ve all known someone in our lives who has pushed us to new doors of opportunity, someone who has shown us perspectives we otherwise would have never seen, who has answered our questions, and helped us tap into potential we never knew was there.
Read MoreKeep on chugging along. Progress to gender parity at the very top is a mixed bag of good and not so good news.
As the appointment of women to the C-suite is so rare, it makes big news. And this is not necessarily good news, say researchers from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Read MoreThe women we all know by first name–Angela, Hillary, Oprah, Sheryl, Melinda, Michelle, Tory– they are all on the list again this year. No surprises.
Read MoreHow Hoffsome. David Hasselhoff, also known as “The Hoff,” the 63-year-old former “Baywatch” star and more recently the star of the “Sharknado” movies, has become the face of the official “Hoffsome” stamp given to all-male conference panels, thanks to a Tumblr dedicated to the narrow practice.
Read MoreWhen I was a columnist at a daily newspaper years ago, one of my colleagues named Alice used the byline of A.J., because she said it made a difference how people perceived her work. And yes, readers assumed she was a man. I gather it is the same reason many initially assumed J.K. Rowling was also a male author.
Read MoreAs Hillary Clinton has declared victory as the first female presumptive presidential nominee in U.S. history, it is prudent to look back to 2014. Two years ago this moment was a prediction, so we are republishing excerpts of this 2014 column on media representations of all female leaders by Gloria Feldt, Take The Lead co-founder and president. This originally ran in ASU Magazine.
Read MoreFrom the image of the giddy United Airlines flight attendant in the 1968 commercial “Come Fly With Me” to Nia Vardalos as the one-woman travel agency in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” decades later, both scenes may create the impression that women dominate the travel industry.
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