By Robin Madell (San Francisco)
When we hear about women in the boardroom, it is often about their absence rather than their presence. The research firm Catalyst finds that only 15.7 percent of board directors are female in the United States—a number that has remained largely stagnant for the last five years. Creditsafe reports that women [...]

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By Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles)
According to Matt Wallaert of GetRaised, a site created to help women plan for and request a salary increase, one of the biggest obstacles women encounter when asking for a raise is just that, working up the nerve to actually ask.
“Confidence is a big issue, but it’s not the only one,” [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
Public interest in the topic of women in leadership has increased significantly in the past year in Europe – thanks, in part, to the UK’s Lord Davies report published in February, as well as EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding’s Women on Boards challenge issued in March.
Reding urged publicly listed [...]

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Contributed by Armi Matienzo
Men have dominated the day trading profession for years, but even as the number of women traders has steadily increased, the gender inequality is still very apparent in today’s trading and investing world.
My colleague Lauren Snedeker and I are the only female members of TradeGuider Systems International, a computer software company [...]

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By Julia Moon (New York City)
In the last few years, a significant portion of the 70 million Generation Y individuals has entered the workforce – and studies show that this new generation of employees is unique: Gen Y are both high-maintenance, but also high-performance.
Gen Y employees are known to be excellent team-players, multitaskers, and innovators. [...]

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By Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles)
A new report from the Conference Board of Canada, an independent non-profit applied research organization, has found that the percentage of Canadian women in senior management positions has changed very little and that men are two to three times as likely to hold a senior executive position. Ruth Wright, the Conference [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
Depending on whom you ask, the UK’s recent foray into the issue of gender equality on boards has produced big results – or results that are not big enough.
According to the Guardian, in the past six months since the Lord Davies Report was released, FTSE 100 boards have [...]

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By Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles)
According to a recent Northwestern University report entitled Are Leader Stereotypes Masculine?, the characteristics that people commonly ascribe to women, men, and leaders contribute to the challenges that women face in obtaining leadership roles and performing well in them.
The study also found that women are viewed as less qualified in [...]

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By Cleo Thompson (London), founder of The Gender Blog
Alex Crawford, whose coverage of the capture of Tripoli for UK news channel Sky News made recent headlines, has declared that it’s “offensive and sexist” to ask how she raises her four children and adds that she objects to the way in which female war correspondents [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
According to a Gallup poll conducted this year, over one in six American workers (between 13% and 22%), is providing care to an elderly or disabled family member, relative, or friend – and the majority of caregivers – unsurprisingly – is female.
The poll also revealed that “Nearly one-third of [...]

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