California has adopted a law (Senate Bill 826) requiring publicly held companies there to have women in leadership. As the law is phased in, a board with at least six…
Interview Update: On January 17, I appeared on Empowering Women, Transforming Lives. This program from Rebecca Hall Gruyter has reached #1 on VoiceAmerica’s Women’s Channel. Indeed, it boasts listeners from around…
On January 10, I had the pleasure of talking with women's empowerment advocate Teresa Hawley-Howard on her program Words Have Power, Use Them Wisely. Teresa is the co-author and compiler of Women…
Mandy Ginsberg, who in January 2018 became chief executive at Match Group, Inc. (owner of Match.com, Tinder, and PlentyOfFish, among other online dating services), credits her mother for giving the…
… is getting started.” So says Jenni Avins (Quartz, December 2015), and it’s hard to argue with that statement. How does one get started? Yesterday another author at Quartz offered…
With apologies to Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), who used the word “prejudices” in place of “assumptions” in the above quotation, I’ve recently seen and read a number of articles and…
On the Showtime series Billions, which just finished its second successful season, Maggie Siff (well-known to fans of the series Mad Men for her role as department store head Rachel…
... so says Alejandra Campoverdi, candidate for Congress in a special election for California’s 34th District, graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and former White House deputy director of Hispanic media.…
Law firms making progress in retaining and promoting their female talent have recognized a number of trends that reflect social science research, rapid changes in the legal marketplace, and an…
As recently reported by Stephanie Francis Ward at the ABA Journal, "behavioral persistence in the face of adversity" and the "sustained, passionate pursuit of goals"—the clinical definition of grit—have much…
