Glass Ceiling

Men in Pink

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Economy, Gender Pay Gap, Career Satisfaction, Craig Claiborne, Careers, Betsey Stevenson, Glass Ceiling, New York Times, Work-Life Balance, Feminism, Adia Harvey Wingfield, Gender Roles, Glass Escalator, Women News

I saw a piece in the NYT about men taking jobs in traditionally female-dominated fields. It features male dental assistants, nurses (paging Gaylord Focker!) and teachers. Which is cool. Mostly.

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Women: We Want You on the Political Battlefield

Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Women and Politics, Democratic Women, Current TV, Maggie Hassan, War on Women, Emily's List, The War Room With Jennifer Granholm, Women in Politics, Video, Glass Ceiling, Politics News

If Maggie Hassan, a Democratic candidate for governor in New Hampshire, isn't elected, there will be zero Democratic women governors in the United States. Not one.

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8 Reasons Michelle Obama Would Make a Better Presidential Candidate Than Her Husband

Keli Goff | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Michelle Obama, 2012 Election, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama First Lady, First Female President, First Lady Michelle Obama, First Lady, Michelle, Elections 2012, White House Correspondents Dinner 2012, Glass Ceiling, Obama, White House Correspondents Dinner, Obama Family, Politics News

The woman who was once viewed as a liability on the campaign trail in 2008 is now viewed as a greater asset than her husband as he seeks re-election in 2012. Could she one day see herself following Hillary Clinton's footsteps down the path of first lady turned presidential candidate?

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At Many Companies That Glass Ceiling Is Far From Being Shattered

Reuters | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Women Leadership, Video, Mid Cap Companies Women, Corporate America, Reuters, Gender Pay Gap, Business News, Glass Ceiling, Women Leaders, Women in Leadership, Women-in-Corporate-America, Business News

* Women paid more than men in some industries * 4.5 pct of execs at mid-cap companies are women * Media best, autos wors...

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Why Are We So Afraid of the Q Word?

Pat Mitchell | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Quotas, Equal Employment Opportunity Act, Glass Ceiling, Women Employment, Eeoa, Female Employment, Women in Media, Media News

Time to confess, I decided. I am actually a product of quotas. Yes, let the truth be known that I was hired for my job in television because the station that hired me was responding to a federal initiative under the Equal Employment Opportunity Act.

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Brag, Dammit!

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Glass Ceiling, Women and Confidence, Women and Work, Self-Confidence, Ernesto Reuben, Career Woman, Brag, Women News

As one more reminder why you still see more men than women in the corporate suites, there's this: women don't exaggerate nearly enough.

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Tech's Glass Ceiling Looks Stronger Than Ever -- But Companies Aren't Telling

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Glass Ceiling, Silicon Ceiling, Video, Women in Tech, Women in Tech Study, Women in Workplace, Technology News

Though the tech sector prides itself on disruption, innovation, and a total disregard for the status quo, there's one part of it that appears impervio...

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Women Entrepreneurs on the Rise

Jack Hidary | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Robin Chase, Kleiner Perkins, Venture Capital Funding, Women Entrepreneurs, Glass Ceiling, Founders, Women in Business, Entrepreneurs, Hunch, Task Rabbit, Female Entrepreneurs, Kiva, New York, Bay Area, Video, Tech, Nyc, Gilt, Foodspotting, Microfinance, Women 2.0, Caterina Fake, Tinyreview, Startups, Angel Funding, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Docpons, Women News

What else can the tech world do to engage more women to start and lead companies?

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Three Years Ago Today, Fairness Prevailed

Lilly Ledbetter | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Glass Ceiling Women, Womens Rights, Women Income, Lilly Ledbetter, Income Inequality, Lilly Ledbetter Act, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Glass Ceiling, Women in Business, Lilly Ledbetter Anniversary, Business News

I had to wait more than 10 years before I knew I was being discriminated against. Within a week and a half after Obama was inaugurated, he signed his name to the law that bears mine -- the very first one he enacted.

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Gender Equality: Tip-toeing to the Tipping Point

Valerie Keller | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Davos 2012, Gender Equality, World Economic Forum 2012, World Economic Forum, Davos, Glass Ceiling, Women in Business, Female Executives, Equal Pay, Business News

What solutions are working to increase numbers of women leading in corporations and how can those be amplified and accelerated? The World Economic Forum turned out to be the perfect place to begin a deep-dive inquiry.

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Female Comedians, Breaking The Taste-Taboo Ceiling

The New York Times | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Female Comedians, Why Women Aren't Funny, Glass Ceiling, New York Times, Sarah Silverman, Christopher Hitchens, Joan Rivers, Women News

In a Rolling Stone interview from 1979, Johnny Carson, host of "Tonight" and the most important gatekeeper in comedy for decades, gave his take on fem...

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Choosing Common Sense over Sexy Banter and Bra Size

Hillary St. Pierre | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Aging Gracefully, Lifestyle Enhancement, Lifestyle, Personality, Parenting Tips, Personal Growth, Parenting Girls, Female Stereotypes, Aging, Glass Ceiling, Feminine Strength, Feminism, Beauty, Parenting Advice, Women News

Life is different for beautiful women. I know: I used to be one.

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'Women's Work'? Staffing Agency Sued For Sexism

Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Workplace Sexual Harassment, Sexual Harassment, Temporary Agencies, Glass Ceiling, Source One Staffing Agency, Chicago Temporary Agencies, Staffing Agencies, Workplace Harassment, Chicago Staffing Agencies, Chicago News

A temporary employment office in Chicago was sued Monday for the alleged sexual harassment of workers and for assigning workers to jobs based on their...

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Tearing Down the Celluloid Ceiling

K. Sujata | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Glass Ceiling, Bridesmaids Movie, Celluloid Ceiling, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, America Ferrera, Women Directors, Hollywood, Women Leaders, Women Producers, Women in Film, Chicago News

What Hollywood and Chicago have in common: when women are leaders, great things happen -- but women don't get to lead nearly often enough.

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Breaking the Venture Ceiling

Jack Hidary | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Sarah Brown, Women, Wie Symposium, Glass Ceiling, Angel Funding, Venture Capital, Golden Seeds, Wie, Arianna Huffington, Donna Karan, Women News

The WIE conference comes at a critical point for women in leadership, and I hope it can encourage more women to join the top ranks of startups, angel groups and venture firms.

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How I Built A $100 Million Startup Without Dropping Out of School

Catherine Cook | Posted 01.05.2012

Read More: Small Business America, Small Business, Startup, Glass Ceiling, Startups, Entrepreneurs, Women in Tech, Entrepreneurship, Myyearbook, Women Entrepreneurs, Huff Post Women in Tech, Women in Technology, Technology News

At school, I didn't want to talk about myYearbook because I wanted my classmates to like me and, as has been discussed by women far more successful than I, no one likes a successful, ambitious girl.

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A "Hair"-oing Tale: What Does It Mean For Your Career?

Manisha Thakor | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Women's Economic Empowerment, Executive Women, Pay Gap, Gender Equality in the Workplace, Sheryl Sandberg Coo, Women in Power, Rebekah Brooks Hair, Gender Pay Gap, Sheryl Sandberg, Glass Ceiling, Rebekah Brooks, Sheryl Sandberg Facebook, Powerful Women, Women CEOs, Women's Rights, Women's Empowerment, Women News

In a world where a C-suite level woman dressed authentically as herself is derided for having "look-at-me-hair," is it any wonder that so many of us women feel conflicted about standing tall in our authentic selves at work?

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Potty Parity

Mickey Goodman | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Architecture, Glass Ceiling, Equality, Spanx, Bathrooms, Comedy News

Why architects don't account for this well-known phenomenon and expand the number of stalls in ladies' rooms is a mystery. The reasons seem obvious.

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29 Major Corporations' Boards Are Still Boys Only

Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Glass Ceiling, No Female Board Members, Female Board Members, Highest Paid Female Executives, Women on Boards, Standard and Poor's, Women News

It may be 2011, but the glass ceiling still hasn't shattered. There are still 29 publicly traded companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 that don't hav...

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Women in Corporate America

Christine Bork | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Catalyst Study, Women of Color, Ceos, Senior Leadership Positions, Promotion, Glass Ceiling, Human Resources, Women in Business, Job Training, Women Executives, African American Women, Chicago News

Although women are making inroads in management positions, they have been unable to reach the heights of men with similar education and experience. Why aren't women advancing to senior leadership positions?

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Why McKinsey Has Women's Empowerment All Wrong

Marcia Reynolds | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Women in the Workplace, Mckinsey Report, Empowered Women, Glass Ceiling, Female Empowerment, Mckinsey Report Women, Empowerment Women, Healthy Living News

Although the report includes a suggestion for leaders to work on the limiting mindsets that create the barriers for women, the recommendations focus primarily on "fixing the women" instead of on fixing the system that created the problem.

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Wal-Mart: What Do Women Want?

BJ Gallagher | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Wal-Mart, Women-Owned Businesses, Working Women, Sex Discrimination, Glass Ceiling, Equal Pay, Discrimination, Women in Business, Women Business Leaders, Business News

Judging by allegations in the class action suit being brought by their female employees, Wal-Mart executives and managers seem to have "dog ears." You...

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Women's Empowerment Principles Make It Clear: Equality Means Business

Kiyotaka Akasaka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Empowerment, United Nations Global Compact, Women, Fortune 500, UN Global Compact, United Nations, Glass Ceiling, Discrimination, Women in Business, Un Women, International Women's Day, Video, World News

Let's face it, while the glass ceiling may have hundreds of thousands or even millions of cracks, it is made of sturdy silica and has yet to crumble at our feet.

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'They Don't Make Movies About Boring People:' Two New Documentaries Tackle AIDS, Government

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Title IX, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, Julian Shaw, Glass Ceiling, Aids Education, Patsy Takemoto, Desmond Tutu, P.W. Botha, Nelson Mandela, Golda Meir, Nancy Pelosi, Malcolm X, Evita Bezuidenhout, Richard Gephardt, Bella Abzug, Pieter-Dirk Yus, Dame Edna, Thabo Mbeki, Hiv, Mahatma Gandhi, Roy Cohn, Harvey Milk, Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority, George Carlin, Kinsey Sicks, Martin Luther King, Sarah Palin, Franklin Odo, Kimberlee Bassford, Patsy Mink, Film, Arts News

Imagine someone with the bluntness of the George Carlin, the wardrobe of the Kinsey Sicks, and the following of Dame Edna and you'll get an idea of what kind of social catalyst Pieter-Dirk Uys became for South Africans.

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Why Women Are Afraid To Network

Marcia Reynolds | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women in the Workplace, Women's Empowerment, Working Women Network, Female Leaders, Workplace-Politics, Mentoring, Work Women Network, Women Workplace, Gender Balance, Glass Ceiling, Working Women Networking, Work Women Networking, Women in Business, Women Leaders, Networking Working Women, Corporate Politics, Networking, Healthy Living News

Women need sponsors and they need to come together in supportive networks. There is no shame in asking for help. It is the way we will finally get more seats in the boardroom and our career desires met.

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