Posts Tagged ‘gender’
What Happens to Workplace Inequities During a Pandemic?
Keeping Women Visible During COVID-19 How do we maintain gender equity gains? It’s almost month four of the pandemic. We’ve gone from treading water as we faced the new realities to adjusting our view to a longer-term outlook for working from home and navigating virtual organizations and processes in the new normal. As we entered…
Read MoreGender Conversation QuickStarters. Advancing Women in the Workplace One Conversation at a Time.
Gender Conversation QuickStarters – A Staff Meeting in a Box. In November 2016 I launched Gender Conversation QuickStarters to encourage and facilitate meaningful conversations in the workplace between men and women. My objective was to create a staff meeting in a box to foster opportunities for men and women to discuss the different experiences they…
Read MoreVoices of The Women of The Vine and Spirits
The Women of The Vine & Spirits is an organization dedicated to empowering and advancing women in the alcohol beverage industry. They hold a yearly Global Symposium in Napa, CA. I’m honored to be asked to speak again this year and present a session entitled; How to Leverage Gender Diversity for Team Success. See you in…
Read MoreCelebrate Women’s History Month with Male Ally and Advocate, Jeffery Tobias Halter
To celebrate Women’s History Month, Julie Kratz, Founder of Pivot Point, interviewed Jeffery Tobias Halter for their podcast series on how male allies support women for gender equality. Jeffery is a gender strategist and the President of YWomen, a strategic consulting company focused on engaging men in women’s leadership advancement. As former Director of Diversity Strategy…
Read More2018: A Cultural Turning Point for Women
As #TimesUp puts Hollywood on notice, is your company ready to advance the conversation about women in the workplace? As Oprah Winfrey noted in her passionate acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award: So I want all the girls watching here, now, to know that a new day is on the horizon! And when…
Read MoreFlash Point: The Effect Of The #MeToo Momentum
The three things best-in-class companies are doing to advance women and what that means in the fight against sexual harassment. Earlier this year, I wrote about Women at the Tipping Point. More than 500,000 women had just marched on Washington, demanding that their voices be heard. Over the past year, I have spoken at or attended more…
Read MoreLeaving a Legacy for Our Daughters
When Holly Dowling invited me to be a guest on her Celebration of You blog/podcast, I knew that we would have plenty of topics to discuss and that we’d create future opportunities to collaborate. Our first podcast centers around gender equality, male allies, fathers of daughters and what a gender strategist does. Here’s the teaser from her…
Read MoreThis Father’s Day Give Your Daughter the Gift Of A Brighter Future
Father of Daughter Initiative Many men never make a connection between advocating for women in the workplace and the impact this will have when their daughter enters the job market. Dads, if we aren’t working today to advocate for women, then by default our daughters will face the same bias and gender pay issues that…
Read MoreMen: This Mother’s Day Become an Advocate for Women
What a difference a year makes. For the past couple of years, I’ve been saying that women’s advancement is stuck and the needle isn’t moving. Well, the needle may be stuck, but women’s voices are rising. In January we witnessed record-setting crowds for the Women’s March and while the headlines aren’t always positive, women’s issues…
Read MoreFemale Advisors More Likely to Be Punished For Misconduct
Evidently, there’s less of a ‘second chance’ for female advisors fired for misconduct – even though male advisors usually get one, a new study claims. If the National Bureau of Economic Research has its facts straight on investment industry bias against female financial advisors, Wall Street has a lot of explaining to do. A study…
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