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...
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)...
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...
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...
Women’s history month celebrates the accomplishment of women in history, many of them unsung and many still unknown. But it is also a time to consider how women can continue to make history. One way to do that is to redefine leadership by cultivating a feminine presence in the workplace and in...
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...
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...
On average, companies are paying women 77% as much as the guys in the cubes next to them, doing the same jobs. Traditionally this has been seen as a women’s issue, an issue of social justice, a reason for women ask for legislated change. However, I believe that this “fairness” argument has been...
I hate Women’s History Month. Don’t get me wrong; I think it’s vitally important to keep remembering that – and why - women matter. It’s crucial that we keep examining and updating our perceptions of women, so that we see them in ways that are ever-more complete, current and correct. I just don’t...
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...
