How to help men help women succeed in business and life. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has certainly sparked discussion with her new book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, released this week. Amidst the debate of whether she should or can lead the next [...]
Posts Tagged "Catalyst"
Sheryl Sandberg Hopes Women Lean In And Men… Man Up? (How Men Can Support The Women’s Movement)
March 12, 2013 – 9:00 am
Women, Thought Leadership, Mentorship And Sponsorship (Day 1: Grace Hopper Celebration)
October 3, 2012 – 1:30 pm
Takeaways from an afternoon at Grace Hopper Celebration in Baltimore Convention Center. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The first day of the three-day Grace Hopper Celebration of women in computing kicked off with an afternoon of panels and talks about thought leadership, mentorship, sponsorship and more leadership exercises. Around four thousand women [...]
Why It Pays To Mentor Women… Literally
June 18, 2012 – 6:00 am
Mentoring and supporting more junior employees makes good sense for your own career. By Leah Eichler (Contributing Writer, Femme-O-Nomics) It’s time to stop the blame game. You know, the one where women quietly admit to each other that senior female executives play a role in the gender gap by not supporting more junior women or [...]
A Few Good Men Wanted To Talk About Workplace Diversity
April 9, 2012 – 9:00 am
What are the new rules to engagement for talking about gender in the workplace issues? By Leah Eichler (Contributing Writer, Femme-O-Nomics) Is gender equality in the workplace a women’s issue? One would think so, considering that most discussions on the topic appear to take place between women. At some point, this ongoing dialogue of liked-minds [...]
Investing In Women – And Not Just In The Abstract
March 9, 2012 – 1:00 pm
Some firms are giving investors the option to invest in companies that promote gender equality. By Alice Korngold (Blogger, Fast Company) You can probably name the CEOs of many global corporations – but you might not be able to name the people who serve on the boards. Nor might you be able to say how [...]
Tech’s Glass Ceiling Stronger Than Ever: Companies Aren’t Telling
February 28, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Bianca Bosker (Technology Editor, The Huffington Post) Though the tech sector prides itself on disruption, innovation, and a total disregard for the status quo, there’s one part of it that appears impervious to change: the glass ceiling. Even as other traditionally male-dominated sectors, such as financial services industry, have diversified their ranks by adding [...]
Good Intentions Alone Won’t Help Women Rise To The Top
December 1, 2011 – 11:00 am
By Leah Eichler (Contributing Writer, Femmonomics) When Jim Leech took the helm as president and CEO of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in 2007, he inherited an executive team that, except for one member, looked largely like him — male. The gender balance now tilts the other way, with 5 female members out of 9 [...]
Get a Sponsor to Fast-Track Your Career
August 31, 2011 – 6:30 am
By Christine Silva (Director of Research, Catalyst) By now, you probably know how important it is to have a mentor — someone who provides career advice and suggestions. Indeed, recent Catalyst research shows that women were actually more likely than men to have mentors -— so we’ve got that message loud and clear. What not [...]
Working Women Hot Topic This Week
August 20, 2011 – 6:15 am
By Darah Hansen (Contributing Writer, Vancouver Sun) Catalyst has published a new study linking women’s career success to on-the-job sponsorship by someone in a key position: “Good sponsors can supercharge a woman’s career by providing her with access to essential networks, bringing her achievements to the attention of senior-level executives, and recommending her for key [...]
Tech is Really a Man’s Man’s Man’s World
August 11, 2011 – 11:30 am
By Linda Forrest (Associate, Francis Moran & Associates) Reading a recent post about the role formal education plays in entrepreneurship, I was reminded of an article I read a few months ago about the “real reason women quit engineering.” In Stemming The Tide: Why Women Leave Engineering, two University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professors report on their [...]
