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No Sexism Here – 3 Ways Men Can Help Women
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...
Research Says: Experience Can Overcome Attitude for a Working Mother
Study: What Moms Think: Career vs. Paycheck. (Working Mother Media, 2012) Finding: Attitudes determine outcomes in this research on women and work, but experience matters too. Women who are career minded are more positive about their careers. Male managers who have experience with working moms are...
The Role of Fear In Success [AUDIO]
I want you to meet an InPower woman. Dallice Joyner has risen above the most abject circumstances of poverty and prejudice to be an effective and motivating leader of an organization doing much needed work in our society. Dallice is the Executive Director of the Northern Virginia AHEC, an...
Research Summary: Employee Satisfaction Is Down, Women Respond Differently
Title: Employee Satisfaction Is Down, Women Respond Differently Study: Reinvent Opportunity: Looking Through a New Lens (Accenture 2011) Finding: Women and men have different strategies for handling job dissatisfaction. InPower Insight: Women and men have similar desires to make their current jobs...
What’s The Worst That Could Happen When You Speak Your Mind?
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)...
Research Summary: Women and Risk – What if Women Ran Wall Street?
Title: What If Women Ran Wall Street? Study: What If Women Ran Wall Street? (Sheelah Kolhatkar, New York Magazine 2010) Finding: A certain amount of risk-taking is biologically driven by testosterone, and women can use this to their advantage in producing less emotionally-driven results. InPower...
4 Pieces of Advice for Female Social Entrepreneurs
by: Laura Calandrella Ten years ago, social entrepreneurship was a pretty lonely field. There weren’t degree programs or associations; impact investing and microfinance were barely even recognized terms. Even organizations like Ashoka – which has a 25-year history of investing in entrepreneurs...
To-Be List for Aspiring Women Leaders
By: Angela Maiers I speak often to groups of aspiring young leaders. Typically, the question on their minds when I begin is "what do I need to DO to become a leader?" I quickly aim to change their orientation from what they must DO to what they must BE. Success in leadership is attributed not only...
Research Summary: Women on Boards Make More Generous Companies?
Study: Who Is Governing Whom? Senior Managers, Governance and the Structure of Generosity in Large U.S. Firms (Christopher Marquis and Matthew Lee, Harvard Business School, 2011) Finding: More women on boards and senior management teams correlate with greater giving by their companies. Note about...
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