The Glass Hammer: Using Online Community to Inspire and Empower Women

There are many resources available now to women who seek to advance their careers and expand their networks. The Glass Hammer is an example of an excellent resource. This online community created by Nicki Gilmour, provides women with access to information for their professional development and to a network of like minded women in financial and professional services industries. Today we'll learn from Nick how she uses this online community format… Continue reading

Advancing Women’s Leadership

For those of you who follow my radio show, Head Over Heels: Women’s Business Radio (formerly Women Mean Business), you know that I am passionate about women advancing their careers and assuming more leadership positions. The weekly show, which is broadcast every Tuesday, 2-3pm EST on VoiceAmerica Business channel, features interviews with thought leaders and subject matter experts that provide valuable information for… Continue reading

Her Turn. Why it’s Time for Women to Lead in America

It's time for women to lead in America and women need to make it happen. Women must hire women, promote women, vote for women. What holds women back from doing this? Why don't we take our place at the head of the table? Today's guest, Vicki Donlan, author of Her Turn: Why It's Time for Women to Lead in America, will guide us through the evolution and progress women have… Continue reading

Womenomics

Recent research studies indicate a very strong correlation exists between corporate performance and gender balanced leadership; the more diverse the leadership team, the better financial performance of the organization. Focus on the diversity of corporate boards has been viewed as an important step to a more gender balanced leadership. The intent of initiatives to increase female representation on boards followed the assumption that this would lead to the promotion of more… Continue reading

Are Professional Women’s Networks Passe?

What do you accomplish when you put a group of professional women together in a room? a valid question and now a controversial topic of discussion. Professional women's networks have recently come under fire for perpetuating the ideology that women need to be "fixed" in order to be successful in the workplace. These professional groups were for the most part originally formed for women to network and listen to senior women… Continue reading | 2 Comments

If You’re Happy and You Know it….

Clap your hands! Stomp your feet! Well, apparently not too many women are clapping and stomping these days. Recently, there have been many articles and reports on how women's happiness has declined in the last few decades. Quite honestly, it's depressing just to read these articles. Many theories have been tossed around; some related to the failure of feminism. These theories suggest that the more a woman's sphere of existence expands… Continue reading

Movin’ on Up

In 1986, an article in The Wall Street Journal by Carol Hymowitz and Timothy Schellhardt first introduced the term Glass Ceiling. The  illustration that accompanied the article showed a woman in a business suit pushing up against a glass barrier. After that article, the term Glass Ceiling caught on quickly as the metaphor for an impenetrable blockade that women face when seeking leadership positions that have previously been occupied by… Continue reading

Gender Equality: Who Needs to Change?

Many companies in the United States and abroad have embraced the need for increased gender equality over the past couple of decades. As a result, gender diversity initiatives were formed to address the  issue of fairness and equality in the workplace. Traditionally, gender diversity programs have involved setting up  networks for women and specialized assertiveness training to empower their female managers. Why? Because the traditional approach to gender diversity has been… Continue reading

The Female Advantage

I read a very interesting article recently in The Boston Globe called, "The Female Advantage. A New Reason for Businesses to Promote Women: It's More Profitable". http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/05/03/the_female_advantage/ The premise of the article is that companies with more female leadership in place at the Board and executive level are more profitable. From the article, Measured as a percent of revenues, profits at Fortune 500… Continue reading | 5 Comments

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