The deliberate push for more women leaders in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and math has been expanding for the past decade. The movement begins with girls in grade schools, moving through universities and academia into C-suites of innovation and technology start-ups.
Read MoreThe 11.3 million women-owned firms in this country are performing five times better than the national average of businesses, employing close to 9 million people and generating over $1.6 trillion in revenues, according to the latest American Express OPEN report.
Read MoreSure, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and try again. We have all the sports clichés and the war metaphors to bandy about, plus a closet-full of trite sayings about winners and losers and how losing makes you stronger.
Read MoreAlmost a decade ago, Carnegie Mellon professors Sarah Laschever and Linda Babcock found that men ask for raises and promotions four times more than women do. Their research has now been cited so often that it’s just about become popular wisdom.
Read MoreA position in management does not land on you when you open the window.
In media leadership, strategies to achieve a higher position in management take intention and purpose, according to speakers at a gathering of more than 200 women in media at the recent Journalism & Women Symposium annual conference and mentoring project in Roanoke, Va.
Read MoreWe all intend to love our jobs, embrace our workplace culture and work happily ever after. Many of us are just seeking fairness at work.
But what do you do if you find yourself in a workplace that does you wrong?
You make it right.
Read MoreYou’re one in a million. Those are not your odds of getting job at Dell, Inc., that is how many job applications the tech giant receives each year.
And while Jennifer Newbill, senior manager in the Global Talent Center of Excellence for the Texas-based international company, does not look at each resume, she is responsible for the experience of every job candidate globally for Dell. She manages the global employment team on candidate attraction, engagement and experience.
Read MoreA woman offers an idea in a business meeting. No one responds. Ten minutes later a man gives the same idea. He’s applauded around the table. If there is one experience universally reported by women when I teach or speak, that’s it.
“Did they not hear me?” they ask incredulously.
Read MoreWe all have an inner alchemist – that latent resource which holds the potential to radically transform us.
No one knows this better than Elise Roy. She turned her lifelong disability into her biggest gift. Her inner alchemist transformed her biggest limitation – being deaf – into something profoundly liberating by using her unique experiential perspective to reframe the world around her.
Read MoreIt’s there. You are not crazy. So now what?
Implicit gender bias has hung around women leaders in the workplace in nearly every imaginable sector and discipline for generations. The bias surrounds the workplace culture in a fog at times thick and impenetrable, and at other times, a mist that only feels instinctively palpable.
Read MoreAlmost a decade ago, I bought several copies of Robert Sutton’s The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t. I gave it to colleagues and coworkers as gifts. It was a gesture of survival. We all desperately needed strategies to manage a difficult work environment with someone who fit the title’s description.
Read MoreSure, Viola Davis portraying Analise Keating, the brilliant attorney and law professor in ABC-TV’s “How To Get Away With Murder” may have changed the image of successful female lawyers, but women attorneys in this country in real life are not getting away with much.
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