Guest contributed by Josie Sutcliffe Despite considerable attention, the gender wage gap has only improved by 8% in the last 20 years — a slow pace of improvement that indicates removing the gap entirely is more than a generation away. What’s holding up progress? A Visier Insights report analyzed an aggregated database of over 160,000 […]
Guest contributed by Linda O’Neill, VP of Strategic Services at Vigilant Almost every executive I talk with desires a more accountable organization. Many of them are running highly effective and profitable companies and it is their goal to keep the bar moving up and to the right. There is room for improvement. In an accountable […]
By Louise Magrath I’m a great believer that women have what it takes to be great engineers, says ContentSquare’s Efrat Ravid. “It’s imperative that more woman study engineering and technology to ensure that more women enter the field and become technology leaders. Women should be represented at least at a 50% ratio in engineering schools, […]
Guest contributed by Terri R. Kurtzberg and Jennifer L. Gibbs There’s an old joke that says that if a man wants to know what a woman’s mind feels like, he should imagine having a browser with 2,857 tabs open ALL THE TIME. Indeed, we do, as a society, promote the image of women as […]
By Cathie Ericson “When you have a seat at the table, use it,” advises Goldman Sachs’ Kerone Vatel. “In my 20s I often had an opportunity to interact with executives as part of strategic conversations, but I was reluctant to share my point of view. I know now that in each of those moments I […]
Guest contributed by Funmi Ogunlusi When it comes to improving women’s access to professional opportunities, there is an elephant in the room. It is intersectionality: the appreciation of the various ways in which different aspects of our identity intersect to create different experiences of privilege and discrimination. A white woman fighting to break through an […]
Guest contributed by Andrea Goulet Quick question. Let’s say your friend gave you a list of fruit: apples, oranges, bananas, and strawberries. She asks you to bring her the item that’s labeled as number three on the list, which one would you pick? Bananas? That’s the logical one, right? When we count items in most […]
By Cathie Ericson Helen Cook describes her career as a jagged line veering all over the place. A native Australian, she first started at a law firm there, but took a job in Dubai sight unseen after being bit by the travel bug. Working on energy and infrastructure projects in the Middle East region, she […]
Happy Thanksgiving week to our readers in the US and to our readers in the UK and elsewhere happy getting ready to sprint to wrap up the year. We are taking a publishing break this week but wanted to unveil our new sister company Evolved People Coaching. Evolved People Coaching is a firm exclusively dedicated […]
By Cathie Ericson Mentors and sponsors are the glue that holds a career together, says WEX’s Michelle Pokrzywinski. “Throughout my career, my needs have been different and I find role models and mentors all over – within my team, in the company and outside in the general professional world,” she says. “Whatever qualities or skills […]