Covid-19 has put a stop to many things this year. But one thing still very much on the calendar is International Women’s Day (IWD), the worldwide event that celebrates women’s achievements – from the political to the economic, and the social – while calling for gender equality. The day has been celebrated since the early 1900s, […]

The unprecedented situation we’re all facing right now has put world leaders under a new level of scrutiny. Some of them, of course, are drawing attention for their mishandling of the crisis – no prizes for guessing who – but many are drawing praise for their timely, compassionate and above all effective response. As it […]

Jeanine Prime of Catalyst is a writer I’ve only recently got acquainted with, but I find her experience worth reflecting on. Much of her work seems to focus on ways to engage men in the promotion of gender parity and what I find especially striking about her approach is that it’s so direct and so unapologetic in […]

Recently I came across an article that grabbed my attention with its suggestion that women get more effective as they get older . The thinking goes that females keep feeling the pressure to prove themselves in a way that men do not. And second, whereas men tend to stop asking for feedback once they reach a certain […]

The Women in Leadership concept can, if we’re not careful, seem to be synonymous with the image of the glass ceiling. As if the struggle for sexual parity is confined to skyscraper boardrooms. Ironically – given the pain of bumping up against that glass ceiling – we might focus on this issue because it’s the […]

Navigating a career for a woman can still be tough, despite all the advances of the past 25 years. Sexual harassment is commonplace — and not just in Silicon Valley. Women still regularly encounter external obstacles to advancement, some obvious, others almost invisible. Then there are those of own making. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not reverting to the […]