What do Papua New Guinea and the United States have in common?
Neither country has a national paid family leave law. Some suggest that solving the conundrums of working moms might be as simple as a national family paid leave policy.
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This will make you laugh: If you are seen as genuinely funny at work, you could be more successful. Jokes can speed up your career growth.
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In December 2011, Hearsay Social Founder & CEO Clara Shih at age 29 was elected to the Starbucks board of directors. Boards of public, private, and non-profit organizations are not just for older individuals. The survival of these organizations depends on having input from younger generations, which comprises both their customers and their employees.
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Are you ready for some football? A better question might be, is American football ready for more women leaders?
During this freshly launched football season, tune into network television any time Saturday or Sunday, then Sunday or Monday evenings, and you will likely witness a college-level or NFL football game. What you will not see often are women who are coaching, managing or even viewing from the sky boxes or front offices as leaders in the league.
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Call it stamina, call it confidence, call it ambition. It’s the secret sauce that many of us hope to have. We strive to be full of confidence and we want to claim it genuinely as our own as we push forward in our careers.
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It can be a small glass prism with your name engraved on the base, one that you display on your desk for a few months, then on a bookshelf, then in a drawer, then throw away a few years later if you change jobs or move your office.
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According to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, 24 Fortune 500 companies had no women on their boards as of March 2016. The bad news is that the majority of these 24 companies have failed to do anything about this problem, despite the attention the women on boards issue has received lately.
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Some employees thrive on structure and routine, and prefer to have the details of their roles and tasks clearly outlined. However, preferring to follow rather than lead doesn’t necessarily imply a lack of desire for autonomy.
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Do you act like a jerk at work? Do you even know if you do?
We all know women—and men—to whom we assign that label. She’s the one who may gossip, take all the credit, or make nasty comments about others in meetings. For sure, we don’t want to be her. But how would we even know if we were?
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In the 1980s I worked for a newspaper in Texas as a feature writer and columnist where staff parties of arrivals, departures and birthdays were held at the bar across the street. Often they included serving a cake decorated with a naked woman, complete with pink and black icing. I was in my 20s and not well-versed in the newsroom culture, but as soon as I saw the anatomically correct lady cake, I took three cocktail napkins and covered her sugar-coated image.
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Sure, the glass ceiling is there. As women leaders and women in the workplace we have been talking about it, peering through it and cracking it for decades now. We even have learned recently about the glass cliff—and hope not to fall off it when we reach the top.
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The first presidential debate in the run for the office of The President of The United States is over. In a little more than one month, Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will (most likely) be voted into office.
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