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By Savita Iyer-Ahrestani (New York City) One could say it’s laughable that, in the year 2011, women are celebrating Christine Lagarde’s appointment as the first female head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). But, says Subha Barry, Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at Freddie Mac, “every ceiling that we break must be celebrated,” […]
Contributed by Liz O’Donnell, Author of HelloLadies.com Remember those reports of the “man-cession” and the “she-conomy” over the last couple of last years? It seems they may have been premature. According to a recent study from global accounting and consulting firm Grant Thornton International, the number of women in senior management positions globally decreased to […]
By Kelly Tanner (New York City) Audrey Choi, Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Global Sustainable Finance, moderated a panel discussion last week entitled, “Will Microfinance Succeed in the BRIC countries? Does Regulation Matter?” The answer to both questions, according to panelists Hans Dellien, Chikako Kuno, and Elisabeth Rhyne, is yes. The event, organized by Financial […]
Contributed by Lynn Harris, author of Unwritten Rules: What Women Need to Know About Leading In Today’s Organizations It seems obvious to many of us that a diverse group of men and women leaders are more likely to be creative and make better decisions than a homogeneous group of men. If we manage to achieve […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles) Based on the latest Catalyst figures, women constitute only 11 percent of U.S. Fortune 1000 company board seats and 25 percent of Fortune 1000 companies still have no women on their boards. Numbers are similar in Europe, where women account for just 9.7 percent of board members in the top […]
By Jennifer Brown, President & Founder of Jennifer Brown Consulting Picture the most efficient, productive, and innovative organization you can imagine. What does it look like? Chances are that it resembles a highly-advanced form of an Employee Resource Group (ERG), also known as Affinity Groups or Business Resource Groups — a multi-disciplinary, globally dispersed, diverse […]
Contributed by Kathryn Kolbert, Director of the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College Power. Ambition. Money. Failure. These are taboos that haunt women today, stunting their climb to leadership positions in both the public and private sectors. We may not like to talk about them, and we don’t necessarily need to conform to […]
By Jessica Titlebaum (Chicago) It is Wednesday morning when I sit down to interview Molly McGregor, the Director of Corporate Affairs at the International Securities Exchange. McGregor is getting ready to attend a conference in Rhode Island as the representative of ISE’s Political Action Committee (ISE PAC) the upcoming weekend. “That’s one thing that has […]