From skills and strengths development to a bulls**t barometer, here is my women’s leadership Wish List for 2013. By Cari E. Guittard (Principal, Global Engagement Partners) Women’s leadership is everywhere. Around the world and over the past few years, there have been numerous conferences, forums and events dedicated to advancing women in leadership. You hear [...]
Posts Tagged "Huffington Post"
The Talented Women Entrepreneurs Behind The Leading Children’s App Developer Duck Duck Moose
November 27, 2012 – 9:00 am
“Startup life is all-consuming, but we built the company around the motto “do right by kids” and believe in a culture of flexibility and autonomy.” – Duck Duck Moose co-founder Nicci Gabriel. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Duck Duck Moose co-founder Caroline Hu Flexer (pictured, right) (pictured, right) was a product manager with [...]
3rd Annual Womens Entrepreneur Festival Ready For Applications
November 16, 2012 – 1:00 pm
We are happy to announce 3rd Women Entrepreneurs Festival. By Joanne Wilson (Blogger & Angel Investor, Gotham Gal) I am thrilled to announce the 3rd annual Women Entrepreneur Festival on January 22-2, 2013 in New York. A huge thanks to the Huffington Post for sponsoring this event so we can have Live Stream live stream. [...]
Best Anti-Poverty Program? Effective Scheduling Of Hourly Workers
September 25, 2012 – 10:17 am
What I’ve proposed is software that will allow an employer to achieve “schedule equilibrium”. By Joan C. Williams (Author, The New Girls’ Network) Susan Lambert, Associate Professor at the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration and the author of a much-discussed op-ed in Wednesday’s New York Times, once told me that she gets [...]
The New Girls’ Network: The Science Of Office Politics
August 29, 2012 – 6:00 am
Mothers are 79% less likely to be hired, only half as likely to be promoted, offered an average of $11,000 less in salary and held to higher performance and punctuality standards than an identical woman without children. By Joan C. Williams (Author, The New Girls’ Network) Advice literature for women is a crowded field and [...]
Women Heroes In Tech: The Best Kept Secrets Of Silicon Valley
July 24, 2012 – 1:00 pm
I seek to widen the pool of female heroes in tech. They might not have a huge PR machine behind them, but these women have truly made their mark on the professional landscape in Silicon Valley. By Marilyn Nagel (CEO, Watermark) If you Google “women in tech,” it’s likely that the same 5-10 women will [...]
Can Mothers Found Startups? (Hint: Yes)
June 17, 2012 – 10:00 am
“People expect mothers to be less committed and therefore give them less responsibility and pay them less from the start.” By Joan C. Williams & Rachel Dempsey (Authors, The New Girls’ Network) An article in this weekend’s New York Times shed some more light on Silicon Valley’s worst-kept secret: it has a woman problem. Its [...]
The Dark Side of Girls’ Success In School
June 14, 2012 – 7:00 am
To blaze a trail, you need to know how to experiment with your ideas when they are messy and imperfect. By Tara Sophia Mohr (Founder & Principal, Wise Living) You were so good at school. A smartie. You wrote great papers that the teachers marked with A’s. You knew how to study for a test. [...]
Kara Swisher On Women In Technology: 4 Reasons Why Females Will Rule The Future (Video)
May 31, 2012 – 9:53 am
Swisher told the story of a minor stroke she suffered last year. “After I had it, people came up to me and asked if I was finally going to slow down a little bit,” she said. “And that felt sexist. I can’t imagine anyone would have said that to a man.” By Carly Schwartz (Writer, [...]
What I Learned From Madeleine Albright
May 24, 2012 – 10:00 am
Self-promotion and asking for what you want and need are essential to a woman’s advancement and success. By Rania Anderson (Co-Founder, Women’s Capital Connection) As I placed Madeleine Albright’s book in her hands at the book signing, as many before me just had, she looked up and said, “Who should I make this out to?” [...]
