Time management isn’t just an issue for busy executives. When you’re in the volunteering stage of your work-life it is a much needed skill. Volunteers often over-extend themselves and also feel that they should be able to complete 99 tasks and projects at home just because they are not “working”...
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Does Your Choice Of Husband Determine Your Career Success? [Video]
In Sheryl Sandberg's book Lean In, she makes a provocative point, that one of the most critical decisions a woman makes that determines her career success is her choice of partner. When I first read this my instinct was to disagree. This isn't an age of political marriage; shouldn't we be...
Research Says: Why We Need To Engage Men in Gender Equality
Study: Engaging Men in Gender Initiatives: What Change Agents Need to Know (Catalyst, 2009, Prime, Racusin) Finding: Before men will support gender equality in their organization, they must undertand that it exists. InPower Insight: Want to achieve greater gender equality in your organization?...
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...
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)...
The Biggest Gen Y and Gender Myths and Why Your Company Should Care
I recently published my Harvard study in Harvard Business Review: Busting Gen Y & Gender Myths and Why Your Company Should Care unleashing new research on the work-life aspirations of elite Gen Y women and men. Surveying a group of Harvard and MIT MBAs, I found that they hold more traditional...
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...
Am I a Feminist? Yes, and…
Am I a feminist? My whole, half century life as a professional, a wife, a mother of two and now a women’s leadership advocate I’ve never had a comfortable answer to this question. While this might seem odd since I now run a women’s site, I know more women who feel this ambivalence about...
Research Says: Behind Every Woman The Men Are Helping Achieve Work-Life Balance
Title: Women And Men Make A Great Team When The Woman Make It To Senior Roles Study: Behind Every Great Woman (Bloomburg BusinessWeek 2012) Finding: Many powerful women are receiving significant help - to the point of social role reversal - more and more often to help them achieve work-life...