Recently, I've attended two different events about women in the media. The first was Her Girl Friday's "Throw Like a Girl: Pitching the Hell Out of Your Stories." The other was the New America Foundation's panel, "Navigating the Pink Ghetto." Both looked closely at the gender disparity in the...
Have you ever heard of Women’s Equality Day? It's August 26th. I’m glad that this day exists. It commemorates the game-changing moment, 95 years ago today, when women gained the constitutional right to vote in the US. It’s important to celebrate that and to remember that there are still many...
By: Kaitlin Rattigan Just as women and girls are expected to follow ridiculous, degrading and constricting ideas of what it means to be feminine men and boys face, albeit different, but just as restricting expectations for what it means to be masculine. So, let’s talk about it. Miss...
As the year comes to a close it's a good idea to think about what success means in our busy crazy lives. Emily shares a little of her story and gives us a lot to think about. - InPower Editors If you work hard you should expect success, right? But what if success doesn’t come fast enough? I mean,...
Title: Gender Balance Helps More Than Corporate Profits Study: Gender and Corporate Responsibility: It's A Matter of Responsibility (Rachael Soares, Christopher Marquis, Matthew Less, Catalyst 2011) Finding: Companies with both male and female leaders in the boardroom and at the executive table...
I know a woman who lost her job. She knew it was coming. After all, she was privy to the numbers. Moreover, she’d watched as colleagues went into the boss’ office one-by-one, only to emerge and pack up their things. Now it was her turn. In the days leading up to her meeting – in a cruel twist,...
Study: The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment (Tinbergen Institute, 2011, Hoogendoorn, Oosterbeek, van Praag) Finding: Teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated and female-dominated teams in terms of sales,...
When women are spending time out of the workforce, much of their volunteer work—and home work—nurtures children. When I read Stacey Epstein’s Inc. magazine article, “Raise Your Daughters to be Leaders”, I was reminded that we can all play a role in nurturing future women leaders in our local and...
Ladies, I write a lot for women, but I talk to many men who want to help us too. I recently wrote this for Smartblogs on Leadership (where lots of men hang out) and thought you might like to pass it on to the men you know that have women (especially younger women) reporting to them. Enjoy! If...
By: Kathy CaprinoAs a trainer and leadership developer of women, I’ve had the opportunity to speak with hundreds of HR and senior executive leaders the past 10 years, about women, growth, and paving the way for women’s ascension to leadership in corporate America. Yet what remains so disappointing...
