Office gossip can be amusing or informative. Office gossip can also be fatal to your career. When it’s your boss doing all the secret leaking, it can be toxic to the workplace. I know enough from decades of working in office cultures from small to medium to enormous that if you have a

Where can you find women business owners producing butter cookies, children’s clothing, hair care products, cold-pressed juice, booties for dogs, soap, fruit-flavored brandy and much more all in one center? You can find these producers and entrepreneurs at Make City, Chicago, an initi

In the wild west of the future economy, some say bitcoin is the gold of the future. It is cryptocurrency in the blockchain ecosystem that was recently traded at a high of $11,599, according to CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index. Trading volume was recently at $7.28 billion in a 24-h

 “In a century from now, in a history text book, I want 2018 to be known for the year that teenagers rocked the nation,” writes “Kyra,” a student on Twitter with 71,000 followers. Particularly in the past few weeks, young women are expressing their power to inf

The percent of women who are sexually harassed is the same as the percent of Americans eating at a fast food restaurant once a month. That’s 8 in 10. More than 81 percent of women report some form of sexual harassment in their lifetime, with harassment most often happening in pu

Mentorship is the next step. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg wants to remove the blockades. Author Kim Elleser calls the hurdle for women’s advancement the sex partition. Both assert more mentorship of women by men will finally annihilate it. Elleser, author of Sex and the Office:

“Are there no other female founders?” Farzana Nasser, co-president of Women in Wireless, tech entrepreneur and mobile and digital growth expert, says she mostly heard and saw only male founders of tech companies at conferences and in media. So Nasser set out to change the ratios of ma

We’ve heard it was The Year of The Woman before, but we definitely believe this is the Year of Women Taking The Lead. 2018 is a new year of action and movement, not just resisting but doing. What #MeToo has taught us is that we too together can enact the goals we aim for, beginning wi

While Take The Lead Day’s Powertopia is headquartered in New York City, the global day of action offers scores of events aimed at participants creating action plans to make strides toward gender parity in leadership across all sectors by 2025. More than 179 live workshops and virtual

Forty-two years is too long to wait. But 2059 is the year estimated that women in this country will be paid the same as men for the same work. We all agree, we gotta go faster. That is the impetus behind the sponsoring partnership between Dow Jones Co. and Take The Lead Day, to take a