Gender Diversity

What Ambition in Women Looks Like

Marcia Reynolds | Posted 05.08.2012

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Marcia Reynolds

Why do women quit fighting for higher positions or quit their jobs altogether, moving on to something else?

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Leadership: It's a Female Thing

Monika Mitchell | Posted 04.23.2012

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Monika Mitchell

The event marked a shift in action -- we are tired of waiting for men to open the door for us. Ladies and gentlemen ... in the 21st century, we are opening the doors for ourselves.

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Should Women Act Like Men to Get On?

Belinda Parmar | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Gender Equality, Workplace, Women, Heim Group, Belinda Parmar, Lady Geek TV, Lady Geek, Tammy Hughes, Technology, Gender, Gender Diversity, Women in Tech, Technology News
Belinda Parmar

Picture this -- a man is speaking to a woman about a business proposal. She is nodding along, letting him know she is listening, but he assumes her...

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Gender Diversity and Kids: Happiness Matters, not Nail Polish

Stephanie Brill | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Gender Spectrum, Parenting, San Francisco, Children, Glbt, Gender, Gender Diversity, Impact News
Stephanie Brill

It all begins at home. Should you allow your son to wear nail polish out of the house? If he likes it, why not? It won't make him gay; it won't make him transgender. It just may make him happy.

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Saying "No" to All-Male Corporate Boards

Joe Keefe | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Gender Equality, Proxy Ballots, Corporate Boards, Jacki Zehner, Joe Keefe, Gender Diversity, Business News
Joe Keefe

Each year, we hear the latest, discouraging figures on the glacial progress women have made in cracking the male-dominated board rooms of corporate Am...

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Science Acknowledges: Women Make Teams Smarter

Margaret Heffernan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Margaret Heffernan

A pathetic 18 percent of the companies surveyed say that their executive teams visibly monitor programs for gender diversity. It's yet another example of just how blind corporations are to their own interests.

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UK Goes Forward To The Past! A Cabinet That Looks Like... Eton (No Blacks, Gays or Jews Need Apply)

Martin Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Martin Lewis

Fortunately for this true-blue Tory son of the landed gentry, David Cameron has been able to pick a cabinet that looks like his alma-mater -- Britain's most exclusive, elite, boys-only private school Eton.

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