When I was writing my book, The Politics of Promotion: How High Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead, I interviewed an ambitious young woman from a competitive consulting firm who had just returned from maternity leave. Recently promoted before her leave, she was...
Women’s empowerment is an essential element of gender equality. However, gender equality is not just a ‘woman’s issue’. Gender equality and women’s rights are human rights issues that require men’s engagement and commitment in order to facilitate change in the power...
Katie Couric, an award-winning journalist, podcaster, documentary filmmaker, and best-selling author, who promoted gender equality in the workplace before it was popular, defines a badass woman as someone who “stands up for herself, is confident, and is not afraid to...
Burn out is real and getting worse especially for women. Harvard Business Review cites gender inequities, that include being “less likely to be promoted than men yet more likely to head single-parent families and take on unpaid labor,” for the reasons women experience...
The combination of a low birth rate and increase in longevity is changing the demographics of the workforce. The workforce is aging. This reality, in combination with a global talent shortage, is forcing companies to expand their talent search beyond the traditional...
In 2015, Francesca Gino, Caroline Ashley Wilmuth, and Alison Wood Brooks published their research at Harvard that indicated women don’t really want power, at least not power as it’s currently conceived. The costs of getting power for women are high. The compromises...
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