Have you noticed the steady drumbeat of research studies coming out over the last 5 years - I mean real, serious research - that find that when more than 30% of an organizations' leadership is made up of working women, the organization is measurably more successful? When I first started reading...
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Research Summary: Women in High-Tech
Title: Women in Technology - High Performance Entrepreneurs Study: High Performance Entrepreneurs: Women in High-Tech (Illuminate Researchers, Illuminate Ventures, 2011) Finding: In the last decade women in technology have played a bigger part in tech startups than ever before, and their...
Research Summary: Women on Boards Negotiate Better M&A Deals
Title: Women on boards get better deals in mergers and acquisitions Study: Women directors get better deals in mergers and acquisitions (Li, Sauder School of Business, 2013) Finding: The more women on a corporate board the less a company pays for its acquisitions. InPower Insight: Women's...
Of Babies and Men: A Stay-at-Home Dad Reflects on Stewart Friedman’s Baby Bust
Stay-at-home-dads encounter all the stresses as stay-at-home moms, and maybe more. We really like Vincent O'Keefe's take on the how he and his working wife rescued each other and his review of Stew Friedman’s new book, "Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family". - InPower...
Why The Woman Effect? We’re Good Investors
Why are women so good for business? Reason Number 4: We’re good investors. In the ongoing hunt for insights to understand The Woman Effect Manifesta, I’ve discovered that the Return on Women (WOR) is really high! - I've been delighted to discover that women have excellent investment instincts!...
Research Says: Gender Diversity Improves Team Performance
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,...
The Top 6 Reasons Women Are Not Leading In Corporate America As We Need Them To
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...
Research Says: Women Being More Risk-Averse May Be a Half Truth
Study: Can Single- Sex Education Make Women Less Risk- Averse? (Sosa, Booth, Nolen, 2012) Finding: Assumptions that women are more risk-averse than men may be more about social context and less about inherent gender traits InPower Insight: When it comes to risk-taking, the stories we tell...
Research Says: Women Drive Successful Start-ups
Study: Women at the Wheel: Do Female Executives Drive Start-Up Success? (Dow Jones, 2012) Finding: More women in executive positions means more successful start-ups. InPower Insight: The evidence now spans large and small businesses alike - women in leadership are good for business! Summary: Good...
Research Says: Women In Leadership Don’t Automatically Promote Women Company-Wide
Study: Women in Charge: The Impact of Female Managers on Gender Inequality (Academy of Management, 2012) Finding: Despite a widely held assumption that women in leadership will help promote women throughout the organization, in at least one organization this didn't happen. InPower Insight:...