Never mind the glass ceiling. It seems that the final barrier for professional women was to break through the glass ceiling, but a new concern has emerged for those women who do make it to executive roles: the glass cliff. Women are promoted or brought in to manage companies that are struggling, and when they […]
Recently on the blog, we talked about the Paycheck Fairness Act, legislation that would have allowed gender-based wage disparities to be challenged and employers held accountable. On April 8, 2014, the act went up for a vote that would allow debate on the Senate floor, but didn’t pass. Senators voted along party lines: Democrats, yes,
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As the discussion around women in the workforce evolves from a mere awareness of the issue to a solutions-oriented discussion, one aspect of the debate deserves more examination: “the motherhood penalty.” A 2007 study at Cornell, titled “Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty?” determined that there was in fact bias against mothers in
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The role of chief operating officer has typically been relegated to the background while the CEO takes front and center stage. Understandable, since the CEO is typically the face and voice of the company. The COO’s role is internal and much of the work is done behind the scenes. However, more attention is being paid
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Despite gender bias and imbalance, millions of women are forging successful leadership roles in finance and other industries. What is the mindset that sets them apart? Here’s what we have drawn from recent interviews with our women executives (WE):
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This blog is the first part of a two-part series. Look for Part II next week. A front-page article titled Harvard Business School Case Study: Gender Equity in The New York Times on Sunday featured a two-year gender study that Harvard conducted on its own students.i For years, even women whose grades were on par
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This year, Ben Bernanke will leave his post as Federal Reserve Chairman and many are looking to Vice Chair Janet Yellen as a likely successor. If she becomes the next Fed Chairman, it won’t be a gender choice. It will be a wise business choice, even if she is the first woman to fill a
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Achieving gender equity in the corporate sphere—it’s hardly a new goal. Yet in many regards, it has proved to be stubbornly unattainable. A 2012 Catalyst report released earlier this year revealed that between 2009 and 2012, the percentage of women executive officers in the Fortune 500 essentially remained stagnant. In recent remarks at the Prism
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Turn on the news in any given week and you’re bound to hear one report or another about the changing socio-economic face of American society. Changes range from shifts in workplace gender equity to the racial makeup of the population. Among the recent headlines: 10 states thus far have legalized same-sex marriage and another 12
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Billionaire hedge-fund manager Paul Tudor Jones certainly knows how to get a conversation going. During a question and answer session at symposium at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce in late April, Tudor Jones asserted that once women become mothers, their capacity to be excellent traders is rendered useless. “We will never see
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