Gender issues

Women Go Big or Go Home

by Nancy D. O’Reilly, PsyD On post-Inauguration Saturday, women definitely went big. Even those who stayed home watched as more than 4.6 million marched for women’s rights as human rights in 642 cities on every continent on the globe. As you know my mission is to promote women supporting other women, which includes women recognizing […]

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Share Your Story and Move On

Award-winning storyteller, Michele Weldon seemingly had it all, the perfect marriage with a handsome, charismatic man, three sons, and a successful career in journalism, but the truth was very different. She told the stories of other people while working as a journalist for major newspapers and magazines, but when she decided to tell her own

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When Women Lead, We All Win

New research, conducted by Mario Macis at Johns Hopkins University found that although women in many developed countries have comparable education and jobs to those of their male counterparts, earnings disparities between the genders are greater in wealthier countries. Macis set out to examine the reasons for the persistence of wage and leadership gender gaps

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Believe and Be the Leader You Can Be

By Dr. Nancy O’Reilly We’re all leaders. We’re all born with significant talents and abilities to become leaders. That’s why I’m amazed to hear women say, “I’m not a leader. I can’t do that.” My challenge has been to create a path for women to say wait a minute; what are your dreams; what do

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When Information = Female Empowerment

by Rebecca Tinsley, founder of Network for Africa and Leading Women Co-Author “Why waste time teaching people about their human rights when they’re hungry?” It’s a reasonable question, until you witness the expression on the face of a woman in a remote rural African village when she learns she is officially, legally equal to a

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Women Speak Up and Stand Out

Today, Transformational Leadership Coach Regina Huber speaks five languages and has 18 years of corporate business experience in six countries. But she had to build her self-confidence to get where she is today, CEO of her own company, Transform Your Performance, and helping other women to speak up and stand out. As a shy little

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Inspiring Role Models

Inspiring Role Models Support Other Women

In the past few years, I’ve met some of the most inspiring women of my life. These women support other women by reaching out to help them succeed. These advocates for change know that the more women they help up the ladder, the more they will transform outdated ideas and create new possibilities for generations

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Now Is the Time for Women Parity

Newsmaker, commentator, best-selling author and co-author of Leading Women, Gloria Feldt tells women that we already have what we need to achieve parity in leadership and earnings right now. We don’t need to pace ourselves, go with the flow and wait until 2095 (as predicted by the World Economic Forum) to become full and equal

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Leading Women and the Likability Penalty

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer and founder of Lean In, recently wrote in a People Magazine exclusive that despite the myths that women don’t support one another, women are incredible allies and accomplish amazing things. Sandberg writes that in order to get ahead we must first of all band together and address the likability

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Diversity Means All of Us

I recently attended my second Diversity Woman Business Leadership Conference, this year in Baltimore. Once again I welcomed the feeling of inclusion; we are all women coming together to support one another. If I were ever to feel set apart, I might expect this to be the place, where three quarters of the attendees were

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