Stereotyping: Why can’t women leaders wear leather leotards?
Obsessive stereotyping I stayed up late to watch the Chime for Change concert last Saturday. And enjoyed it. This is not coming from any position of expertise as I’m not qualified to give a competent...
View ArticleMillennial women send out a powerful message
Organizations should take note of Millennial women! There has been a lot of media hype recently centered around research which has suggested that Millennial women don’t want the top jobs. Findings...
View ArticlePower and Privilege at Harvard Business School
Power and Privilege at Harvard A New York Times article reviewed Harvard Business School’s two year effort to address eye-popping issues of gender inequality (to put it mildly). The report reveals more...
View ArticleAre Women Entrepreneurs Game Changers?
They’re leaving corporate roles in larger numbers than previous decades. In the high tech industry, they exit en masse between ages 30 – 40. One well-known expert calls it The Brain Drain. Most of...
View ArticleWomen bosses: caught between a rock and a hard place
Scary stats or warped perception of women bosses? According to research carried out this summer on women bosses by the fashion brand Hobbs, 34% of women aged 18 and over said they would prefer to have...
View Article3 Uncommon Practices to Crack the Glass Ceiling
Despite the variety and success of corporate programs aimed at advancing women (Deloitte, General Electric, Procter and Gamble, American Express) the number of women in top leadership roles remains...
View ArticleCars Designed for Women P.S. Pink is Not a Color
The announcement of Mary Barra, CEO General Motors, saw it’s rightful place in the news media. In a related and somewhat tangential post, Yahoo’s Justin Hyde, wrote about GM’s first woman engineer....
View ArticleOlympic Ski Jump – A Win for Professional Women
Women are competing in the Olympic ski jump event for the first time ever. Jumping to Victory for Professional Women That’s worth celebrating. The fact that, and the reasons why, such an event hasn’t...
View ArticleFeedback for professional women. He says …she says
Why your professional women need feedback “Honey, we need to talk” Closing the feedback gap for professional women Both men and women want to be understood, but there is no doubt that differences...
View ArticleLack of career planning hurts professional women
No career planning hurts professional women If I received a notional Euro (or any other currency) for every woman who contacted me in varying levels of emotional distress about their careers, it would...
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