By Professor Michelle Ryan. Originally published in The Guardian. Many women are just as ambitious as men when they begin their careers, but become so wearied by fighting against multiple structural and experiential barriers to their success that this ambition often wanes. This is one of the findings made by Michelle Ryan, a professor of [...]
By Jana Cohen Barbe, originally published on Fortune. It’s the truth that you might not want to hear. MPW Insider is an online community where the biggest names in business and beyond answer timely career and leadership questions. Today’s answer for:What do you think is the most significant barrier to female leadership? is written by [...]
BY LYDIA DISHMAN. Published in Fast Company. Here is what we know: Millennials will make up 75% of the workforce by 2025, and they have different priorities than their predecessors. Motivated by a different set of values and ideas despite facing challenges such as student debt, the recession, and the resulting jobs crisis, Deloitte’s [...]
By JUSTIN WOLFERS JAN. 8, 2016, Originally published in The New York Times. Economics remains a stubbornly male-dominated profession, a fact that members of the profession have struggled to understand. After all, if the marketplace of ideas is meant to ensure that the best ideas thrive, then this imbalance should arise only if men [...]
By Lenny Mendonca. Published special to the Mercury News on 12/26/2015. A recently released report "Women in the Workplace" from Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In Institute shows the extraordinary challenges women face in advancing as corporate leaders. The most shocking finding is that at the current pace of progress, it will take women 100 years to [...]
At the last big Apple media event, I was left scratching my head. Executive after executive came out, presented a new product or upgrade, and emphasized how new and cool it was. But the leaders giving these presentations? The vast majority, not to put too fine a point on it, were old white guys. They [...]
CONTACT: Jovana Rizzo, BerlinRosen, jovana@berlinrosen.com, 646-200-5329 Beverly Greenfield, 92Y, bgreenfield@92Y.org, 212-415-5452 92nd Street Y Launches Women inPower Fellowship New program to help women rise to C-suite positions through mentorship, executive training, social impact Fellowship led by Advisory Committee members including fashion designer Norma Kamali, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Ernst & Young Partner Ellen [...]
By Alicia Villanueva Chavez on Sep 14, 2015 Female artisans in Peru have gained access to world markets to sell their crafts. They are also learning to demand their rights to find balance in their lives. “When we began training we wanted only to embroider to earn money, but at each meeting something new to [...]
By Ruth Simon. Published in The Wall Street Journal, August 19, 2015. The growth rate of new businesses remains stalled, but the share of women-owned firms has climbed. While the growth rate of new businesses remains stalled, fresh government data shows that the share of women-owned firms has climbed. The total number of U.S. firms [...]
Social change comes quickly, almost unexpectedly quickly, these days and for the first time in a long time a positive bit of change hit the NFL on Monday with the announcement that Arizona Cardinals Coach Bruce Arians was making a move to hire what is believed to be the league’s first female coach. Jen Welter [...]
