Only a few hours after the announcement that Marissa Mayer, formerly of Google, was Yahoo!’s new – pregnant - CEO, many female commenters on the web added new dimensions to the “Motherhood Penalty” and immediately started imagining how she might fail. “Thank you, Marissa Mayer. Now don’t mess...
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Infograghic: A Woman’s Place In The World
The United states ranked 19th on the list of best and worst places to be a woman in the world. Norway came in at the top and Somalia rounded out the bottom. The findings of this research, conducted by Save The Children, were taken from an in depth look at the health, education and economic...
Man Up on Family and Workplace Issues: A Response to Anne-Marie Slaughter
By: Kunal Modi A response to Anne-Marie Slaughter's article in TheAtlantic entitled "Why Women Still Can't Have It All." For weeks, Anne-Marie Slaughter's recent op-ed in the Atlantic, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," has ricocheted across traditional and social media. It touched a nerve among...
Work-Life Power: Why Sandberg & Slaughter “Have It All” Wrong
Last week, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton Professor extraordinaire and former State Department Policy Director, took a break from writing about Syria and US-Mexican relations to write a sincere and heart-felt article in The Atlantic lamenting the reality that as women move into powerful positions...
We Need Women in Business Leadership NOW
Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article in the Atlantic, Why Women Can’t Have it All, has reignited crucial issues of advancement and balance that women continue to face in the workplace. As a male executive in business for over forty years, I have worked with many women who have consistently performed at...
Are We Done With Dress-For-Success Marketing?
I read Forbes Woman pretty regularly because I find many great writers there covering issues of interest to business women. I even aspire to write there myself, but I have a dirty little secret to share about this valuable online publication and many others who cater to professional women. The...
Research Says: Encouraging Girls Is Key In Closing The Entrepreneurial Gender Gap
Study: Resolving the Entrepreneurship Gender Gap (Scott Shane, The Bloomberg BusinessWeek 2011) Finding: The entrepreneurial gender gap remains stagnant but encouraging young girls to pursue careers in business could foster growth. Note about The Woman Effect Research Index: This study was...
Research Says: Executive Committees Are Better Indicators Of Gender Diversity
Study: Where the Worlds Top Companies Stand: 20-First's Global Gender Balance Scorecard 2011 (Wittenberg-Cox, 20-First 2011) Finding: Executive committees are a much better indicator of true gender balance in corporate culture than board reports, and women's representation on them tends to lag...
Gendership: A Guy’s View
When I interviewed Mike Howard, Chief Security Officer at Microsoft, on the subject of leadership, we also had a great conversation about the role he sees gender and diversity playing in modern organizations. I listened to understand Gendership – the partnership of women and men working and...
Take Off Your Corporate Mask – Step Into Your Power
This month while I’ve been giving my eSeminar to the amazing and brave people intent on developing their own Authentic Leadership Style, I’ve been exploring deep and powerful dimensions of authenticity and sharing them on the blog. One of the elephants in the room when we talk about authenticity...