Women and the Media: Fast Facts
How are women portrayed in the media? There’s good chance you’ve never considered the shocking facts in the infographic below.
How to Create a Women-Friendly Workplace
Last night I served on a panel discussion in front of hundreds of women working for a well-known global tech company. I gave them three specific habits designed to evolve their culture to a higher state. (More on that in a minute.) The challenge topic was “How can women better support each other in the […]
The Return on Investment of Gender Balanced Leadership
Many strong arguments have been made by authors Gerzema, Sandberg, Grant, Herman, and others for an increase in the number of women in business leadership roles, including at board, C-suite, and general management levels. But here are the simple, research-based facts: Women make companies smarter. Women make companies more profitable. Companies with more women outperform those with fewer women across a range of […]
Nelson Mandela and Graça Machel: Building Love, Breaking Barriers
Nelson Mandela left us in 2013, but his wife, Graça Machel, remains an endearing symbol of his generous spirit and leadership. She’s still hard at work in Africa, promoting a vision she shared with Mandela – that we can achieve anything when we work collectively rather than individually. Graça Machel has played an historic role […]
The Future of Gender Diversity
Three prominent female leaders from across the globe offer their views on the role of diversity and how it might shape future development in their regions. 1. Erica Pedruzzi Member of the Board of Directors, C4B Compliance for Business, Argentina What is your personal view on the role of diversity in the South American region currently […]
Newborn Girls to Achieve Gender Equality by Age 81
Progress for women in the past 20 years has been unacceptably slow, with areas of stagnation and regression. This is the conclusion of an authoritative global review of progress on gender equality, to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, which UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will present to […]
African Women Can Transform The Continent
African women can and will be agents of change for the continent’s transformation at all levels. This was the message delivered by the African Development Bank’s Special Envoy on Gender (SEOG), Geraldine J. Fraser-Moleketi, during a Pre-Summit Ministerial Consultative Meeting on Gender that took place on January 20-22 ahead of the 24th Summit of the African Union […]
Emma Watson: Are You Man Enough For Equality?
Since the HeForShe launch in New York last September I think it would be fair to say that my colleagues and I have been stunned by the response. The HeForShe conference was watched over 11 million times, sparking 1.2 billion social media conversations, culminating in the HeForShe hashtag becoming so popular that Twitter painted it […]
What Leadership Legacy Is Victoria’s Secret Leaving For Our Children?
On today’s TV news Victoria’s Secret was showcased with their upcoming world-celebrated parade of angels. Admittedly the show they will put on in London in a few days is spectacular. No other fashion parade in the world creates as much expectation and interest. Servers and entire networks are said to have gone down as global […]
Can You Hold Yourself to a Higher Standard Than Self-Interest?
Business is bad. I am not referring to financial performance but rather moral performance. Capitalism is amoral. It has no intrinsic moral agenda. You can start an enterprise that makes boatloads of money selling cigarettes or selling treatments for the lung cancer it causes. Actually both these business models are currently thriving. And as far […]
