Posts Tagged ‘gender equality’
The Wowza Week of Women Changing The World 4 Ways
The last seven days have been nothing short of amazing. So my column this week is largely a pictorial with brief commentary on several categories of advances for women and gender equality unrolling before our eyes if we can only see and appreciate them.
Read MoreWhy Women Should Go for “Impossible” Jobs
Greetings from Arizona where I’m up reading (time zone change) with no one else awake to talk to about this horrible article The Next CEO Of Wells Fargo Will Be A Female…Human Shield, subtitled “Giving the worst job in American banking to a woman is the wrong way to make history.”
Read MoreMy Week of Intention and How You Can Elevate Yours
Issue 108 — September 23, 2019 It wasn’t my intention to meet a princess and have her introduce me for my speech at the WICT (Women in Cable Telecommunications) Leadership Conference. But it happened because I set my intention to appear on large stages this year. HRH Princess Beatrice of York and I were privileged to be among…
Read MoreHow to Snowplow the Way to Equal Pay
Issue 90 — April 1, 2019 You know those “snowplow parents” — the ones who clear away impediments that might hamper their children’s success? They’re getting their comeuppance in the wake of the recently discovered college entrance cheating scheme that has snared celebrities like Felicity Hoffman and Lori Loughlin and revealed the corrupt ways parents of…
Read MoreHow Two Women at Lilly Turned “Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” on Its Head and Broke…
Issue 89 — March 24, 2019 For centuries, the rite of passage for young Maasi men was to kill a lion. This deeply embedded cultural ritual demonstrated the adolescent male’s courage, agility, and readiness to be a warrior. It was a way to get a girlfriend too. But by 2008, the lion population had dwindled from 250,000 to…
Read More6 Lessons learned in 29 hours at SXSW for International Women’s Day
Issue 88 — March 11, 2019 Standing in the soft air of Austin, Texas, 90 miles from where it all began for me in the small town of Temple where I was born, I realize how far I have come. Bluebonnets were in bloom on the roadsides as I traveled from my hotel to the Innovation Mansion at SXSW…
Read MoreEqual Doesn’t Mean Equal Yet: Women’s Equality Day, ERA & The Story of My Life
My friend Carol Jenkins, a board member of the Equal Rights Amendment Coalition was updating me over lunch about the current attempt to get the ERA into the U.S. Constitution. “This is where I came in,” I said. The renewed effort, founded in 2014, comes almost a century after suffragist leader Alice Paul drafted the…
Read MoreThe Evolution of Male-Female Relationships: An Interview with Leon Silver
I recently had a chance to speak with my friend and Take The Lead board member Leon Silver, co-managing partner of the Phoenix office of law firm Gordon & Rees. Leon is a lifelong supporter of women’s rights and co-founder of The Liberty Project nonprofit. Gloria Feldt: You recently welcomed your first grandchild to the…
Read MoreAre Leadership Messes Women’s Opportunity?
Female leadership firsts are trending. Especially when an organization is in big trouble, it seems. Often the choice of a woman appears to be an act of desperation. Fix us, clean up the mess and make it all work. Call mommy to doctor a skinned knee, soothe the troubled waters.
Jill Abramson and Gender Bilingual Communication
With hindsight, this 2013 article all but predicted Jill Abramson’s unceremonious fall. Though according to the New Yorker rendition, her demise was precipitated when Abramson, the New York Times’ first female executive editor, confronted her boss, publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., after learning her pay was significantly less than her predecessor, I point the finger of firing fate much toward implicit cultural biases that influence behavior much more than any of us want to believe.