Things just got a lot better for the working women of New York State—and most of them don’t even know it.
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In the year 2018, the literary publisher And Other Stories will only release titles written by women.
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One of the most important things a leader can do is create a culture in which it’s safe to express doubts and fears, make mistakes, and admit failure. Such a culture yields four powerful rewards.
It encourages people to acknowledge rather than hide their vulnerabilities and allows them to see that they’re not alone —
During our most recent collaboration with The New York Times, we focused on women business owners at the helm of food-oriented ventures. (See “Why We Care About Female Chefs.”) The restaurant world some of them inhabit is anything but sweet, however. Women trying to work their way up
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For any avid athlete who’s tried a million and two sports, you know the pain and strife of a changing body that you have next to no control over.
I rode horses for seven years and played water polo for two, meaning that I felt I had the thighs of a lumberjack. I was constantly evading the mirrors, and if I did look, I almost never liked what I saw.
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Here’s the truth: women need to help other women and in order to do that confidence is a factor we need to focus on. The lack of confidence that women have in their abilities is by no means the entire reason for gender inequality, but it is certainly a factor in the equation.
I am sure by now most of you have heard of “The Confidence Gap” piece that showed up in The Atlantic on April 14th and then subsequently all of the backlash from that article.
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“Authenticity” is an overused word for a pretty interesting and important idea. For most of us, it only starts to feel exciting when we see it in practice. Authenticity isn’t just an idea then. It’s something we do. And it’s something we better understand if we want to follow through on our goals for ourselves or our organizations or those ideas we have for the world (often that the world needs badly).
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I’d like to say I always show up as my most powerful self at work, backing myself up and other women up as often I need to, pushing for change with all of my energy and intelligence whenever I can.
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When a little boy asserts himself, he’s called a “leader.” But when a little girl does the same, she risks being called “bossy.” Many people are not OK with that.
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When you speak with GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving, it’s easy to conjure the teenage percussionist he once was, asserting his high energy drive with his drumsticks, and quite possibly driving his mother crazy by beating bongos while doing the split in the kitchen like Jean-Claude Van Damme
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The world loves a provocateur, even if that person says some pretty messed up things about rape and in so doing, helps perpetuate rape culture.
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If you’re as tired as I am of those negative narratives about women’s lack of advancement, then you’ll be as delighted as I am to see this infographic summarizing a new report by the research organization Catalyst.
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