Tuesday, September 22, 2015

"Women's Innovation" Panel Gone Wrong

"When we want to talk about being a woman in tech, what we’re really saying is that we want to talk about being wives and mothers with day jobs in the technology industry". 

This article provides a critical view of the content of conversations about women in leadership. Read more here




Thursday, February 26, 2015

Leadership Lessons from a Woman Who's Made a Career Turning Companies Around

 A lot of what makes a successful CEO can't be measured, and when you're one of the few female CEOs, the path is even less clear. Read about Sharon Rowlands here.


Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Why the Few Women Venture Capitalists Often Give Up

Read about how the funding landscape in venture capital has changed for the worse and the women attempting to change the status quo, here.


Monday, January 26, 2015

How do you think female CEOs actually make it to the top?




Harvard Business Review's Sarah Dillard and Vanessa Lipschitz did some research and found that female CEOs tend to stay with the company for an average of 23 years before taking over. Read more here:

Thursday, January 15, 2015

What Do Women Need?

Katty Kay, co-author of The Confidence Code, discusses how women feel about their value in the workforce. Kay describes how her research finds that "women don't believe they are as good as they are". Listen to the interview here.


Sunday, January 11, 2015

What do you think?

Elizabeth Wasserman argues against gender quotas in business and contends that they actually do more harm than good to gender equality. "The worst thing women can do for ourselves in the workplace is to make ourselves objects of fear and suspicion", she writes. Read more here:

Elizabeth Wasserman: Rise of the Femplainers