I discuss the profitability of diversity in an article, “Disregard Diversity at Your Financial Peril: Diversity as a Competitive Financial Advantage,” that was published nationally in the May / June 2013 issue of Diversity & the Bar, the magazine distributed by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. You can read the full piece at: http://www.theaxelrodfirm.com/mailChimpNewsletters.php?ID=12.[1]
Read MoreToday marks the 5th anniversary of the historic signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act by President Obama.
Read MoreWhile 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.
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreEver feel like everybody is trying to “fix” women? Constantly trying to make women into better versions of themselves or something else entirely?
Read MoreJamera 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.
Read MoreWith all the talk about the need for women’s leadership today, I often find myself thinking, “Where the hell are the men?”
Read MoreThere 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.
Read MoreWorld 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
Read MorePresident 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.
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