By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) “Don’t be afraid to make the hard call,” said Gina Biondo, Tax Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. “Stand behind the decisions you make, and get the right people behind you. You get to be a leader because you’re successful – and we need more highly visible women in leadership roles.” […]
Contributed by Carol Frohlinger, Co-Author of Her Place at the Table: A Woman’s Guide to Negotiating Five Key Challenges to Leadership Success, available in paperback October 5. Carol will be a panelist at theglasshammer.com event on November 2, 2010. Click here to register. Despite the fact that women hold 50 percent of middle management jobs, […]
By Kelly Tanner (New York City) When it comes to gender discrimination in the workplace, we’re having the wrong conversations. Three former employees of Goldman Sachs have filed individual and joint lawsuits alleging systemic gender discrimination and sexual harassment that resulted in a loss of pay and promotion opportunities, as well as humiliation and inappropriate […]
By Lynn Harris, author, Unwritten Rules: What Women Need To Know About Leading In Today’s Organizations Corporations are now, in many ways, as powerful, or sometimes more powerful, than governments. It therefore matters a lot who sits on their boards and executive teams. These are the people who set strategy and make decisions that affect […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) “When I was fourteen, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. I didn’t know what that meant – I didn’t know any lawyers,” Marcy Engel, Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Eton Park Capital Management, said with a laugh. Engel went on to attend the University […]
By Kelly Tanner (New York City) Would greater diversity in financial institutions strengthen or, as some have charged, destroy them? Next year, we may find out. The recent financial reform legislation is making new waves recently due to a provision buried 454 pages in that requires 30 federal agencies to create an Office of Minority […]
Contributed by Beth Collinge of CTG – a division of ILX Group plc. Tough rules to clamp down on the use of privately-traded derivatives and speculation in shares by short-selling were unveiled by European Commission in bid to tame the “wild west” of financial markets. The central bank in Japan intervened to force the yen […]
By Cleo Thompson (London), Founder of TheGenderBlog Three years ago, Professor Lynda Gratton of the London Business School used the phrase the “leaking pipeline,” when she declared: “… across most industrial sectors, while 50 per cent of graduates recruited are women, only 30 per cent of managers are women and about 15 per cent of […]
By Dr. Eric Shoars, author of Women Under Glass: The Secret Nature of Glass Ceilings and the Steps to Overcome Them Corporate America has seen the rise of ERGs – Employee Resource Groups – to help advance women and minorities in the workplace. Though this is a good trend, an employee resource group will do […]
Contributed by Tanya Hall (Austin, Texas) Achieving a successful career depends just as much on your network as it does on your skills, knowledge, and experience. Though any professional connection you make is important, nothing impacts your career or has as much influence on your success as a group of likeminded women vested in each […]