It’s not selfish, narcissistic, spoiled or just trendy. It’s healthy.
Women in the workplace can use and benefit from mindfulness practices and self-care perhaps more than men, research finds. That may have to do with the propensity for working women—and working mothers especially— to multitask most every hour of the day.
Read MoreIt’s already a t-shirt, in many different stylesfrom multiple sources, plus it’s a tote bag.One version is on amazon. Many benefit different organizations, from the Southern Poverty Law Center to the ACLU, with styles that benefit their causes.
Read MoreThere was the rise of the bro-palace open office space sparked by Silicon Valley with ping pong tables, video games and kegs of beer in the office lunchroom. Many women who worked in those spaces wondered when it would be time to flip the switch and honor the preferences of some of the women who might reside there. Most just went along with the male-heavy ride.
Read MoreTo properly salute the 100th edition of the Take The Lead This Week newsletter, we look outside of Take The Lead to gather a list of our favorite lists of women global leaders, healers, executives, entrepreneurs, funders, innovators, groundbreakers and cookie makers. We hope these may become some of your favorites too.
Read More“Know your history.” It’s the first Power Tool in the 9 Leadership Power Tools created and developed by Gloria Feldt, Take The Lead’s co-founder and president.
Read MoreThe hotly contested Audi television commercial premiering at The Super Bowl features a father mulling over how to tell his young daughter the financial facts of life.
Read MoreWhat pretend princesses have done for generations to create the success of Disney movies, real women in STEM perhaps have done for the latest box office surge of $84.4 million in ticket sales for the newly Oscar-nominated film, “Hidden Figures.”
Read MoreWhat’s next for women leaders in all spheres of business, entrepreneurship, policy and non-profit organizations who want to see change and movement regarding women’s rights as human rights?
Read MoreThe move to parity for women in boardrooms internationally has advanced, but not fast enough and certainly not close enough to the mission of Take The Lead of parity by 2025. Two major new global analyses of women in management and the workplace point to strides achieved, but full parity still off in the horizon.
Read MoreAccording to the Oxford Dictionary, a stereotype is “a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.” The example given is “the stereotype of the woman as the caretaker.”
Read MoreWhat began as the Women’s March on Washington blossomed last week into the largest protest in U.S. history, one day after the presidential inauguration of President Donald Trump.
Read MoreI’ve marched in and organized many marches. So I supported but wasn’t planning on going to DC for the January 21 Women’s March, feeling good that younger women were rightly leading this time around. As the time grew nearer, Take The Lead’s Leadership Ambassadors created an Action Party event that grew just as the Women’s March itself was growing beyond all expectations. I had to be there—for our event and in solidarity with the millions of other marching women and men around the world.
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