Today marks the 5th anniversary of the historic signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act by President Obama.

ParityTake The LeadJanuary 29, 2014Equal pay, equality, parityComment

Lean Startup Conference Organizers Solve Gender Balance Problem

While so many organizations and business conferences struggle to achieve or are unwilling to look at gender balance and/or racial diversity, some folks are keeping it simple and getting it right.

In San Francisco today, hundreds of folks will gather for day 2 of the wildly popular Lean Startup conference, based on the 2011 book by the same name by tech entrepreneur Eric Ries.

ParityLex SchroederDecember 10, 2013diversity, gender balance, gender targets, lean startup, parity, womens movementComment

The New Women’s Movement Is Going to Take All of Us

On my reading list for this winter is Marianne Schnall’s What Will It Take To Make a Woman President? In my dialogue work, my colleagues and I think a lot about which questions have the power to spur people to action and we often arrive at questions starting with this same “What will it take…” set-up.

MBAs Won’t Fix Women, Women Will Transform MBAs

Ever feel like everybody is trying to “fix” women? Constantly trying to make women into better versions of themselves or something else entirely?

ParityLex SchroederNovember 12, 2013education, parity, WomenComment

Mothers or Others? Why Choose? How Maternity Leave Policy Crushes Women’s Leadership Parity

Jamera Lee Massop was an administrative assistant in New York when she became pregnant. She didn’t think being pregnant would or should impact her job.

ParityGloria FeldtNovember 8, 2013equality, maternity, Work/Life Balance Comment

What Will Motivate Men to Push for Gender Balance?

With all the talk about the need for women’s leadership today, I often find myself thinking, “Where the hell are the men?”

ParityLex SchroederNovember 5, 2013parity, Women's Leadership, womens movement Comment

22 Countries Outrank U.S. in Gender Equality

There are 22 countries, including Burundi, Nicaragua, Latvia, Lesotho, and the Philippines, where women have greater equality with men than they do in the United States, according to the World Economic Forum’s 2013 Global Gender Gap Report.

ParitySusan Weiss GrossNovember 4, 2013equality, gender, parity Comments

When Will Women Rule the World?

World leaders have long recognized the value of empowering women, for their sake and to help achieve such long-term social goals as eradicating poverty, educating children, combating disease, and protecting the environment

ParityTake The LeadOctober 28, 2013parity, Power, Women's LeadershipComment

High Quality Childcare and Early Childhood Education Should be at Top of Feminist Agenda

Sheryl Sandberg exhorts women to “lean in”and “close the ambition gap”, but it’s unlikely to happen as long as working mothers are left with sub-par options regarding the care and education of their young children.

ParitySusan Weiss GrossOctober 7, 2013childcare, education, Work/Life BalanceComment

Gender bias: Complex Problem, Simple Solution

Gender bias in the workplace, media or anywhere else is a complex problem to understand, let alone “solve.”

ParityLex SchroederSeptember 10, 2013cynefin, gender bias, systemic change, systems thinking, Women's Leadership Comment

Lobby for Janet Yellen to be Head of Fed As Strike for Parity in Women’s Power

President Obama could take a major step toward advancing women’s equality by appointing Janet Yellen to be Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. But it appears that he may blow it.

ParitySusan Weiss GrossSeptember 9, 2013Finance/Money, Leadership, parityComment