Women in Leadership

Sustainability Leadership Through Branding: A Woman and a Community of 50,000

Graciela Tiscareno-Sato | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Corporate Branding, Green Conference, Sustainable Business, Women Entrepreneurs, Sustainability, Branding, Sustainability Conference, Green Business, Women in Leadership, Small Business News
Graciela Tiscareno-Sato

I recently interviewed a woman affecting positive environmental changes through the process of branding. Branding -- as in, corporate branding done by corporate marketers? Yes, but we must understand how she defines branding first.

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Gender Armageddon and the Broken Women's Movement

Amy Siskind | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Naral Pro-Choice America, Second Wave Feminism, National Girlfriends Networking Day, Mentoring, Abortion Rights, Sex and the City, The New Agenda, Women in Leadership, HBO Girls, Kirsten Gillibrand, Networking, Politics News
Amy Siskind

I'll own it. The reason I'm mesmerized by the girls in Girls -- the hapless, aimless, tragic victims -- is because of guilt. We've let these young women down.

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An Alternative Approach to the G20 Summit

Tara Pichardo-Angadi | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: G(irls)20 Summit, Women's Leadership, G(irls)20 Summit 2012, Women in Leadership, Global Women's Issues, Impact News
Tara Pichardo-Angadi

We should get to the point where being a woman or a girl is a non-issue as regards rights and access to health, education and jobs. This is still not the case in too many countries.

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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 We Need to Abolish This Word

Tara Sophia Mohr | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Girls, Women, Slut, Rush Limbaugh, Teenage Girls, Sandra Fluke, Prostitutes, Feminism, Women in Leadership, Women News
Tara Sophia Mohr

We can take this moment to let companies know we will not support them if they support this kind of demeaning speech in the media.

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Why Women Rule At Negotiation

Tara Sophia Mohr | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Women and Money, Negotiation, Women, Stereotypes, Reframing, Women in Business, Stereotype Threat, Women in Leadership, Gender, Women News
Tara Sophia Mohr

Women, can you change your vision of a what a highly skilled negotiator looks like, to a picture that looks more like you?

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Stop Passing the Buck, Ladies

Katrina Alcorn | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Working Women, Women, Work-Life Balance, Women Executives, Women in Leadership, Feminism, Working Mothers, Women News
Katrina Alcorn

Yet, time and time again, I heard brilliant, successful women get on stage and say: "It's not going to change in our lifetime."

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Women: Stop Calling Yourselves 'Controlling'

Tara Sophia Mohr | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women in Leadership, Feminism, Women's Empowerment, Women Assertiveness, Women Controlling, Women Expression, Healthy Living News
Tara Sophia Mohr

Women, here's my recommendation: strike the word "controlling" from your vocabulary. It's loaded, it's gendered and other stuff is hiding underneath it.

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Women Leadership: Voters Launch A Power Surge Of Women

The Christian Science Monitor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iceland, Global Women's Issues, Argentina, Dilma Rouseff, Global-Womens-Movement, Angela Merkel, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Women Leaders, Brazil, Women in Leadership, Women in Government, World News

Over the past decade, almost every region of the world has seen exponentially more political seats -- legislative and executive -- go to women. Icelan...

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China's Secret Weapon: Women

Marcia Reynolds | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Chinese Women, Glass Ceiling, Women in Leadership, China, Women in China, China Women, China Glass Ceiling, Healthy Living News
Marcia Reynolds

It's not that Western women don't question, "Who am I and what is my life's purpose?" It's that we aren't asking it from the top rungs of the corporate ladder as they are doing in China.

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21 Companies That Have Excluded Women From Leadership

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Female CEOs, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Women's Careers, Catalyst, Sexism, Female Executives, Women in Leadership, Women in Management, Business News

By 24/7 Wall Street: More than half of the American workforce is comprised of women. It is well-known that they are paid less than their male counterp...

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How Do You Know if You Are Being Authentic?

Marcia Reynolds | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Authenticity, Be Authentic, Authentic Self, Authentic, The Inner Life, Your Authentic Self, How to Be Authentic, Communication Tips, Women Leaders, Women in Leadership, Healthy Living News
Marcia Reynolds

This year's catch phrase for women in business is, "Be your authentic self." What does this mean, really?

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Don't Sacrifice for Your Children -- Show Them Strength

Marcia Reynolds | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Opportunities for Women, Working Mothers, Role Models, Raising Children, Life Decisions, Women in Leadership, Mothers, Life Stories, Parenting, Healthy Living News
Marcia Reynolds

So many stories I read this week were about mothers sacrificing for their daughters. I believe you can also create stories that your children will love telling of how you stepped into your full potential.

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Where are the Women: U.S. Boardrooms May be Missing the Boat?

Ilene H. Lang | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women in Business, Women Board Directors, Women in Leadership, Ilene H. Lang, Catalyst, Catalyst Census, Business News
Ilene H. Lang

The results of the 2009 Catalyst Census of women in leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies are in - and they aren't pretty. One way to break this cycle and close the gender gap: start at the top.

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Where are the Women? To President-Elect Obama from the National Council for Research on Women

Linda Basch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Linda Basch

It seems only fitting, after an election with such an unprecedented presence of serious, female power that you would pledge to assemble a more gender-balanced team.

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