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By Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles) In November of last year, Women at the Top (WATT), a community of women at or aspiring to the C-suite, conducted a survey which found that of 523 executive positions within the top 50 commercial banks, 17.4 percent were filled by women. This is nearly a five percent increase from […]
By Melanie H. Axman (Boston) Harvard Business School kicked off its 20th Annual Dynamic Women in Business Conference last Saturday, celebrating esteemed, accomplished, and professional women from various walks of life. Created in 1992 to highlight issues women face in the workplace, the Conference continues to draw emerging and distinguished female business leaders into a […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) A little more than two years ago, The Executive Leadership Council Institute for Leadership Development & Research published the findings of its Black Women’s Research Initiative [PDF]. Executive Director Ancella Livers, Ph.D., explained, “Some of our female members noticed the numbers of black women in executive roles seemed […]
By Elizabeth Harrin (London) New research shows that companies can benefit by exploiting gender discrepancies in host countries – in other words, hiring highly skilled, local women who are not ‘employees of choice’ in their own countries. Can companies really gain a competitive advantage by hiring women who are overlooked? And should they? When Qualified […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Rhonda Mims, President, ING Foundation & SVP, Corporate Responsibility and Multicultural Affairs, ING, said she was glad to have learned the value of a non-linear career. Having begun her career as an attorney, then working for the government, and finally moving to the corporate space, Mims has had […]
Contributed by Lynn Harris, author of Unwritten Rules: What Women Need to Know About Leading In Today’s Organizations Since publishing Unwritten Rules: What Women Need To Know About Leading In Today’s Organizations, I’ve worked with others to try to get more women in positions of senior leadership. Basically all change efforts boil down to the […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) “Something I often speak about is the invisible networking and advocacy structure that exists in every organization. For many years, I did not understand how robust this structure is. Women need to increase their awareness about themselves and the environment they work in – the work you do […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) “All mentorship is not equal,” said Debbie Soon, Vice President of Executive Leadership Initiatives at Catalyst. Soon said she was shocked by the huge discrepancies between men and women, which were revealed by a report released today by the organization. According to the report, men benefit significantly more […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) A report recently released by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and the University of Bath School of Management revealed that women are 6 times less likely than men of similar professional experience to be CFOs or CEOs. Similarly, in the UK women make up 46.6% of the […]
Contributed by Betsy Bagley, Work-Life Strategy Consultant, NLC Strategies Work-Life types from across the country descended on Dallas last month for the first regional forum of the National Dialogue of Workplace Flexibility hosted by the Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor. The four regional forums in Texas, California, Illinois and New York are designed to […]