women and leadership

As an inspired teacher and now Director of Education at Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Dena Simmons teaches us so much, especially about what we thought we 'knew.'  Congratulations on your TED talk live at Town Hall I was lucky enough to attend last fall that's already been viewed by over 450,000 people. My New Year's hope and prayer: your incredible talk (and walk,too, by the way!) might transform hundreds of thousands children's lives. 

December 2016

Last week I joined many other Hunter alumna (including one from the class of '46!) to marvel at the ingenuity, passion and commitment of the early leaders in the suffrage movement. Inspiring and fun! President Jennifer Raab, Congreswoman Carolyn Maloney and other prominent New Yorkers, told fascinating stories and reminded us of how hard this path toward equality can be!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/30/arts/design/revisiting-the-fervor-of-the-womens-suffrage-movement.html
 

Culture is the way we think, act and interact...

Not such great news on how our culture is doing on advancing women into positions of leadership on corporate boards. "In the U.S., women occupied just 16.9% of board seats at Fortune 500 companies last year, ...a figure that has barely budged over the previous eight years."

Is it time to change the game, the dealer or the cards?

How might a corporate culture tackle these unseen barrier to women rising in the corporation? Three academics suggest solutions after first stunning the reader with just how deeply ingrained and intractable these barriers are.

http://hbr.org/2013/09/women-rising-the-unseen-barriers/ar/1