MBAs Won’t Fix Women, Women Will Transform MBAs

Ever feel like everybody is trying to “fix” women? Constantly trying to make women into better versions of themselves or something else entirely?

ParityLex SchroederNovember 12, 2013education, parity, WomenComment

Mothers or Others? Why Choose? How Maternity Leave Policy Crushes Women’s Leadership Parity

Jamera Lee Massop was an administrative assistant in New York when she became pregnant. She didn’t think being pregnant would or should impact her job.

ParityGloria FeldtNovember 8, 2013equality, maternity, Work/Life Balance Comment

What Will Motivate Men to Push for Gender Balance?

With all the talk about the need for women’s leadership today, I often find myself thinking, “Where the hell are the men?”

ParityLex SchroederNovember 5, 2013parity, Women's Leadership, womens movement Comment

22 Countries Outrank U.S. in Gender Equality

There are 22 countries, including Burundi, Nicaragua, Latvia, Lesotho, and the Philippines, where women have greater equality with men than they do in the United States, according to the World Economic Forum’s 2013 Global Gender Gap Report.

ParitySusan Weiss GrossNovember 4, 2013equality, gender, parity Comments

When Will Women Rule the World?

World leaders have long recognized the value of empowering women, for their sake and to help achieve such long-term social goals as eradicating poverty, educating children, combating disease, and protecting the environment

ParityTake The LeadOctober 28, 2013parity, Power, Women's LeadershipComment

High Quality Childcare and Early Childhood Education Should be at Top of Feminist Agenda

Sheryl Sandberg exhorts women to “lean in”and “close the ambition gap”, but it’s unlikely to happen as long as working mothers are left with sub-par options regarding the care and education of their young children.

ParitySusan Weiss GrossOctober 7, 2013childcare, education, Work/Life BalanceComment

Gender bias: Complex Problem, Simple Solution

Gender bias in the workplace, media or anywhere else is a complex problem to understand, let alone “solve.”

ParityLex SchroederSeptember 10, 2013cynefin, gender bias, systemic change, systems thinking, Women's Leadership Comment

Lobby for Janet Yellen to be Head of Fed As Strike for Parity in Women’s Power

President Obama could take a major step toward advancing women’s equality by appointing Janet Yellen to be Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. But it appears that he may blow it.

ParitySusan Weiss GrossSeptember 9, 2013Finance/Money, Leadership, parityComment

Women and the Nonprofit Sector: A Drastic Need to Rewrite the Narrative

I would like to give a shout out to all of the women in the nonprofit sector.

ParityKaitlin RattiganAugust 29, 2013equality, non-profit, parity Comments

Here's To The Empowerment Entrepreneur In Each Of Us - Celebrate Women's Equality Day

We have “Battling” Bella Abzug to thank for Women’s Equality Day on August 26

ParitySuzanne Braun LevineAugust 26, 2013empowerment, independence, Women's equality dayComment

What Have You Labeled As “A Man’s Job?”

Today is Women’s Equality Day, which makes the discovery I share here particularly apropos.

ParitySusan Weiss GrossAugust 26, 2013equality, mans job, women in the workplace Comments

Women's Equality Day 2013: Learning from Civil Rights Leaders

It was all over the news for days. Every pundit, every political talk show, every newspaper running big retrospective spreads. Op eds galore, and reminiscences of what it was like to be marching together toward equality. Tomorrow, August 26 is Women’s Equality Day, the day that

ParityGloria FeldtAugust 25, 2013Ms Magazine, Women's equality day, womens movement Comments

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