Dr. Sasha Galbraith

Give it up, ladies. The fight for equal pay is useless. We are never going to earn as much as men because we don't work as many hours. That's the argument from Kay Hymowitz, who has apparently solved the mystery of the pay gap in her Wall Street Journal op-ed,...

"If there's one thing I would say to women who are stepping out of the workforce, it's 'Keep a toe in. Just keep a toe in,'" advised Cara France, who should know. She's CEO of The Sage Group, a firm that provides high-level...

Step aside men. Women are, once again, the new (old) powerhouses on the block. Every so often, mainstream media comes out with a slew of articles on how women are taking over the world and leaving helpless and hapless men in the dust. A recent cover story in Time magazine,...

How do you win the fight against the Taliban? According to Dana Freyer, chair and co-founder of Global Partnership for Afghanistan (GPFA), "The best bulwark against the Taliban are members...

This is the fourth post in a series about Sandra Peterson, CEO of Bayer CropScience

It's still a sad commentary that today, in 2012, women are faced (much more so than men) with the issue of organizing their work life in the context of their home life. According to a...

This is the third post in a series about Sandra Peterson, CEO of Bayer CropScience

Several studies suggest that women walk a tightrope, or face a "double bind," in that they must be perceived as both strong and sensitive in order to get ahead. Men need only...

This is the second post on a series about Sandra Peterson, CEO of Bayer CropScience

Like many successful women I've met, Sandra Peterson, CEO of Bayer CropScience, describes herself as a leader who tries to "inspire an organization to achieve a higher purpose than just making sales...

In today's era of business uncertainty, coupled with women's increasingly difficult ascent to the top of major corporations, one woman is successfully climbing the ladder two (or three) rungs at a time (often with a sidestep in between). I recently spoke with Sandra E. Peterson, CEO of Bayer CropScience --...

When Mary (not her real name) was starting her business in the mid-1980s, she targeted a large potential customer in Tennessee. She called up the company and convinced the managing director that it was in his interest to set up a meeting. "Fine," he said. "I'd like to meet with...

Mother Meg, the matron saint of eBay, is now settling in as den mother of the Hewlett-Packard boy and girl scouts. HP has always been known as the "do gooders" of Silicon Valley, long before Google's "Do no harm" slogan came into vogue. Hopefully, with the help of a relatively...

The September issue of the Harvard Business Review features an article on leaders with "higher ambition" who are able to turn companies around by appealing to workers' desire for meaningful work that contributes holistically to society over the long term.

While the leaders in the article profiled are...

"I wanted to be the first woman astronaut and drive a beautiful red sports car!" As a child, Jennifer Schoenhofer's ambition was as big as her native town of Bingen, Germany was small. Today, she runs a $20 million company that specializes in wireless solutions for clients like AT&T, Telus,...

With the debt ceiling talks wrapping up (for now), it's a great time to look at what went wrong and what we might do differently going forward. After all, Congress has only succeeded in kicking the can down the road, since the core debate about future spending and revenues was...

The blogosphere has been all abuzz lately over whether the super-smart individual contributor is better than a great team. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, was quoted in a New York Times article saying, "Someone who is exceptional in their role is not just a little better than someone...

"We don't want the beautiful ones. They cause too much trouble and do not work hard." So said Kunava, a Huli man in Papua New Guinea. "The best ones have no fingernails and are bald" from carrying the woven bilum sack strap across the top of their heads.

What makes some organizations thrive, while others struggle? Strong leaders often make all the difference. I recently had the opportunity to speak with Lauren Herring, 32, President and CEO of IMPACT Group, a global talent development and career management firm with special expertise in relocation and outplacement.

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal blatantly states that there is "no male-female wage gap."

Among other things, the author, Carrie Lukas (executive director of the conservative Independent Women's Forum), points out that women work an average of 8.01 hours per day on...

A new Citibank survey reveals that women are significantly less optimistic than men about the future of the economy. For the first time since July 2010, women's and men's views have diverged on where the economy is headed. Citi's quarterly survey includes an "Economic Pulse" index that ranks...

"Getting laid off was one of the best things that happened. I was on this train that I just never would have gotten off myself, and I was headed toward health issues of my own. I just never would have stopped." Kirsten Menes reflected on her 18-month "sabbatical" from a...

According to a BCG survey, 73 percent of women said they are "most dissatisfied" with the financial services industry. Women claim they are not respected, often treated in a condescending manner, receive poor or contradictory advice, and get worse terms and deals than men. One participant shared her...