By: Adele Galey EVERYTHING BEGAN AT THE OTHER END OF THE WORLD... About a year ago, I arrived in Chile with my back pack, a big smile on my face, and a lot of motivation. I was at a transitioning moment in my life. I was asking myself a lot of questions about what the next steps in my life...
Research shows a lack of women in the STEM workforce as well as a lack of women earning STEM degrees. There are many issues facing women in science including lack of recognition and prejudice in science. Why do women make up only 24% of stem related positions? How do stereotypes set at a young age...
How is a woman’s perspective on her leadership identity different than a man’s? This question goes DEEP, but Dana uncovers a fundamental distinctions between inner and outer definitions of leadership that often leave women at a disadvantage in identifying how traditional leadership advice applies...
Title: Are women good negotiators? Study: Reversing the Gender Gap in Negotiations: An Exploration of Stereotype Regeneration (Laura J. Kray, Adam D. Galinsky, Leigh Thompson. Elsevier 2000) Finding: Women outperform men in negotiation styles when they are told that feminine traits are linked with...
We hear a lot about the pay gap and there certainly is one. The official data says women earn $0.77 to the dollar that men do, but what we're learning is that the pay gap isn't all about discrimination. The choices women make matter too. Nothing is all or nothing! - InPower Editors Source:...
Title: Women Entrepreneurs Are Driving the Economy Through the Gender Gap Study: Overcoming the Gender Gap: Women Entrepreneurs as Economic Drivers (Lesa Mitchell, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2011) Finding: While women have broken through the glass ceiling, they seem to encounter 'glass...
Do women have more opportunity to close the gender gap in entrepreneurship than we're taking? This data seems to say "yes." Originally on: kauffman.org
I like working with men, I really do. Of my clients and colleagues, the gender mix is evenly distributed. Over the years, I’ve become accustomed to being the only woman in a room full of businessmen and have never felt excluded or diminished. When I read the vigorous (and occasionally venomous)...
Want to sustain outstanding results in business? Then leadership must build a culture and environment where both women and men will thrive. The demand is right around the corner and the Millennials will expect it for young men are used to working with women as equals. Today’s college...
Study: Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide (Linda Babcock, Carnegie Mellon 2011) Finding: The wage gap affects more than high-level executives. Women need to negotiate for what they're worth straight out of college as well as when they're moving up the corporate ladder....
