By Robin Madell, San Francisco Imagine if you were able to recruit women from across the country to spend hundreds of hours debating how best to help women stay on the leadership track at American companies. Then imagine what might happen if a small group of those women spent countless more hours distilling the resulting [...]

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By Michelle Clark (Keene, New Hampshire) According to a recent study by Mercer, the percentage of women assigned to international projects currently sits at 13 percent, a 3 percent increase from 2010. Mercer’s research suggests that 39 percent of companies say that employees with international experience are promoted more quickly, it is encouraging to see [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) As more and more investors take notice of research showing the outsized returns that women produce in the alternative investments industry, pension funds are becoming the source of a growing call for diversity. Investors want plans to better reflect the diversity of their constituency, and they are keen [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Last week, it seemed like the next country in line for boardroom gender quotas might be Germany. Over the past few years, Germany has championed an effort to encourage top companies to set their own gender targets. Reportedly, Chancellor Angela Merkel has been frustrated with the slow pace [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Six months ago, FTSE 100 and 250 companies were being commended on their efforts to bring more women into the boardroom. The first half of 2012 saw a big uptick in hiring women to director roles, with 44 percent of new board appointments in the FTSE 100 going [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Today women and men are more likely than ever before to identify themselves as feminists – and that’s despite relentless attacks on the movement by media personalities, politicians, and pundits. In fact, according to a recent survey of people who voted in the 2012 election, 55 percent of [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Today women are more likely than ever to be the primary financially contributor (breadwinner) in their households – but that doesn’t mean we’re comfortable with it yet. At least, that’s what a new study out of the Simmons School of Management says. Mary Shapiro, Professor of Practice at [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) According to a new study, companies would be foolish not to hire more women to their boards of directors. The reason, as the authors say, is that women are better at making complex decisions: “women simply have the capacity to make better directors and their presence on corporate [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Ever since Lord Davies of Abersoch released his 2011 report on the shockingly low representation of women on UK boards of directors – 12.5 percent of FTSE 100 directors in 2010 – companies have ramped up their efforts to attract women to these posts. The report recommended that [...]

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By Robin Madell (San Francisco) CodeProject is the world’s largest independent community of coders and developers. But in early 2012, Sean Ewington, Jeff Hadfield, Chris Maunder, and Terrence Dorsey recognized three related areas in which they believed CodeProject was not living up to its full potential: helping women embrace programming in greater numbers, enter the [...]

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