Despite the strides taken by law firms to increase the number of women lawyers in leadership positions, only a dismal 18.8 percent become partners in the nation’s biggest firms.
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How do you develop clarity on your leadership vision? Lawyer and certified coach Bonnie Flatt offers her suggestions.
Women have increasingly become the primary breadwinners in their families but they feel less prepared to make financial decisions. This is one key finding in Prudential’s 2012-2013 Research Study on Financial Experience & Behaviors Among Women.
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In business, bullies are would-be leaders who, rather than use their talent for assessing strengths and weaknesses in the service of their team and their company, instead look to construct an uncontested fiefdom. There can be a very thin line between a bully and a leader.
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According to historian Nathan Ensmenger, the earliest computer programmers were women. In the 1940s, the University of Pennsylvania hired six women to work on the ENIAC or the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer which was considered as the world’s first electronic computer. In the 1960s and even a few years after, Ensmenger revealed that programming was rife with opportunities for women. Even Cosmo encouraged their readers to pursue it as a career.
Academics from the University of Leicester School of Management and Essex Business School at the University of Essex revealed that the women working in a hedge fund in London struggled at each stage in their adult life in the company.
Feeling invisible is a pretty big setback, and it can torpedo a young woman’s confidence. Even in the middle of my career, it felt like a punch to the solar plexus.
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In many demanding roles, it can easily become routine to focus your attention on achieving specific business objectives. The more you focus on equipping yourself to advance, the more indispensable you become to your company. It’s a win-win situation.
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There’s a new angle to the glass ceiling conversation and this one puts part of the blame on women — those that choose not to work outside the home to be precise.
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Many women, like me, hang on to Sheryl Sandberg’s every word, tweeting her one-liners en masse as soon as they hit media sites and giving her the status of an oracle, or at least business superstar. But if we plan on continuing to claim Ms. Sandberg as our version of the ideal woman, it’s important to explore why her and why now.