“Empowerment begins with access.” That is the mission and the tagline of MoneyOnMobile, India’s largest mobile payment platform, now in a new partnership with the Kalighat Society aimed at helping more than 75,000 low-income women in the Kolkata area become financially literate.
Read MoreEveryone remembers your parting words.
Marissa Mayer, former CEO of Yahoo, resigned from the company she led for five years “given the inherent changes to my role,” she said, accompanied by a $23 million severance package.
Read MoreTo put a positive spin on it, we’ve had many examples of the power of a woman’s voice.
It started last Sunday during the Tony Awards, when best actress in a musical, Bette Midler, kept speaking her piece long after the escalating music signaled she should get off the stage. She took her time, thanked the women who came before her, and imperiously waved the orchestra off, declaring she had the floor. The way she took her time and space to make her voice heard felt outrageous and liberating at the same time. Her assertive presence must have made Amy Cuddy proud.
Read MoreResist the urge to consume the mindless beach read this summer. You know what we mean, the cotton candy of a novel that if you left it in the sand it would be OK with you.
Read MoreGillian Downey sings a different tune now as chief operating officer of i.c.stars, than she did early on in her career. And the world is better for it.
Read MoreNot every working father has a hint of the glamorous life of new dad George Clooney.He welcomed his twins Ella And Alexander recently when his wife, Amal (an international human rights lawyer), gave birth to the pair. This weekend will be his first Father’s Day as a father.
The high profile silencing of women experts this past week has been stunning.
At a nearly all-male panel of five men and one woman at the World Science Festival in New York, Veronika Hubeny, theoretical physicist at University of California- Davis, was interrupted, talked over and her theories explained to her by New Yorkermoderator Jim Holt.
Mansplaining at its best.
Read MoreIt’s about power this week.
Of course with me, every day of every week I’m obsessed with women’s relationship with power. That’s because it’s so central to the decisions women make to aim for those higher salaries and leadership positions, elective offices, and grander entrepreneurial ventures – or not. The relationship is so profound, it’s almost spiritual, and often fraught with ambivalence.
Read MoreSorry may be the hardest word, but sometimes sorry just does not cut it.
You would think most of these caveats about workplace behavior, language and communication would come down to common sense, sprinkled with ethics and a moderate showing of humanity. Never mind your mother or father probably told you all of this by the time you were 6.
Read MoreWhat compels a politician to throw his or her hat in the ring and run for president?
And once in a position of power, what is the strongest factor that can bring about their demise? The answer, according to research from PsychTests, is self-esteem.
Read MoreOf course for your next keynote or board meeting, you may not be donning the $51,500 Dolce & Gabbana coat that First Lady Melania Trump wore recently accompanying her husband to Italy, or even her power belts on display in the Middle East.
Read MoreThe photo shoot recently at the NATO summit in Brussels with the sole male in the otherwise all-female group of world leaders’ spouses says a lot about the under-representation of LGBTQ leaders in politics, business and entrepreneurship around the world.
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