Haven’t we been down this road before? Young women believing they can have it all — a well paying career, marriage and family. During the Feminist era, young women saw themselves becoming empowered with choice. You could have a choice of marriage and a family or marriage, family and a job outside the home. According to [...]
When you mention retirement to women, the image of bag ladies in the parks or on the streets may not be very far from their minds. While it may not actually come to that, a survey by Merrill Lynch Affluent Insights Quarterly found only 52% of men worried about having enough money for the later [...]
She’s only 59 and when she reported a few months ago that she had early onset Alzheimer’s it not only shocked the sports world but shocked everyone who knows her. In basketball there are only two winning coaches that draw the ultimate of respect, and there isn’t a professional male basketball player that doesn’t know [...]
It’s an interesting premise that the presence of women would keep “bad boy” behavior in line. As the secret service sex scandal continues to unfold, the media has raised this question. If there had been more female secret service agents in Columbia wouldn’t they have deterred such “macho” behavior? As yet, there has been no [...]
Today is the day we acknowledge the failure to reach income parity with men by calling attention to Equal Pay Day. At the current rate since the Equal Pay Act was passed in 1963, it will take until 40 more years before women match their male counterparts. Yes, I know it doesn’t make sense if [...]
You now have scientific evidence to confirm if you suddenly feel a little brain foggy. Not only are you aware of it but researchers have determined that it’s normal. According to Miriam Weber, Ph.D., neuropsychologist at the University of Rochester Medical Center, there are some cognitive brain changes as women are transitioning into menopause. The [...]
While it seems counter intuitive to suggest that leadership roles not begin with the criteria of experience, there is something far more critical women can take advantage of to build their leadership careers. Leadership roles by nature of the male business model have stressed a career strategy of building on years of experience. Over this [...]
Women expecting to advance their careers quickly learn to expunge the words “I sense” or “I feel” from the decision making process. Decision making is at the top of the list when it comes to leadership skills. Business leaders are expected to make their decisions based on the facts coming from a dominant male left-brain, [...]
As reported in the prior post - Women do or don’t have the brains to be a leader, the two authors, Zenger and Folkman found in their survey that women ranked higher at all business leadership levels as more effective leaders than men. The following 16 core competency areas were used to measure leadership effectiveness: [...]
In the business world women are still the minority in upper levels of management, as chief executive officers and presidents and members of governing boards. Explaining this discrepancy is not as easy as saying there aren’t enough smart women to fill these positions. Actually, business appears to be at odds with the old stereotype that [...]
Recent Comments