by Elizabeth Harrin (London)
After 30 years of legal experience at Linklaters you’d expect Diana Good to know a thing or two about the industry.  She has seen a great deal of change since she joined the firm as a trainee in 1979.  She became a litigation partner in 1988 and specializes in running complex high […]

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When Lisanne Schloss picked up the phone and heard founder of Women in the City, Gwen Rhys, on the other end, it must have been a tense wait until Gwen broke the news.  Lisanne had sat through a panel interview a few days before, and this was the call with the results.  She’d done it: […]

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by Elizabeth Harrin (London) 
Carol Bell holds a string of accolades for her work as a project manager on major construction projects including most recently becoming the first winner of the Property category in the Women in the City Awards.  Construction isn’t necessarily the first choice for women in project management, but the challenges and rewards […]

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by Elizabeth Harrin (London) 
Amanda Blanc chose insurance from the start.  After leaving university in 1989 she joined the Commercial Union graduate training scheme.  Since then she’s become Chief Executive of Towergate Retail Division at Towergate Partnership Limited, Europe’s largest independently owned insurance intermediary.

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by Elizabeth Harrin (London) 
You wouldn’t expect a biochemistry degree to open many doors in financial services but Denise Pollard-Knight has found that her life sciences background has given her an excellent grounding for bioscience investment management. She is now Managing Director of Nomura Phase4 Ventures, a venture capital subsidiary of Asia-based investment bank Nomura, and has […]

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by Sima Matthes (New York City) 
Of the six companies among the Fortune 100 ranking for this industry—Boeing (#27), United Technologies (#39), Lockheed Martin (#57), Honeywell (#73) , Northrop Grumman (#76) and General Dynamics (#87)—all have women in the C-suite. 

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by Elizabeth Harrin (London)
“I don’t think women find it harder to succeed than men,” says Sara Caplan.  “I think often they choose a different lifestyle.”  And management consultancy is a very specific lifestyle choice.  It can involve long hours, being away from home, and being expected to hit the ground running as soon as you […]

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by Sima Matthes (New York City)
According to Progressive Grocer, the grocery industry - retail, wholesale and manufacturers - has traditionally had few, if any, females in the C-suites. The article, focusing on the Top Women in Grocery, published earlier this year, celebrated the progress women have made in recent years, “introducing a much-needed female perspective […]

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by Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
In these tumultuous times, who could blame a gal who wants to escape for a little while into the nonsense that is “reality” television or to go a live concert to sing cheesy hair band songs of her youth at the top of her lungs?  Here are some of the […]

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by Sima Matthes (New York City) 
Kudos to Madelyn Lankton of Travelers Insurance (#93 on Fortune 500), who recently received the Women In Insurance Leadership Award from Insurance Networking News (INN).
Ms. Lankton is the senior VP of Travelers Claim Shared Services.  She was recognized for making a “significant impact” on her business according to the INN.  […]

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by Sima Matthes (New York City)
All eyes are on the market today, looking to see if the $700 billion “rescue plan” will have the desired effect of soothing nervous investors and turning around the downward market spiral.  This intense market scrutiny put us in mind of those who, among other things, process the market transactions.  And, […]

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by Sima Matthes (New York City)
When you think cutting edge, you think Silicon Valley.  Within the Valley, there’s a smaller community of internet companies, and, regrettably, these companies can hardly be called cutting–or leading–edge on gender equity.   
So why the dearth of women?  Quoted in a 2007 article in the Guardian UK, Jenny Slade, the communications director […]

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by Sima Matthes (New York City)
We try to focus on the positive here at The Glass Hammer, giving examples of women who’ve made it or are well on their way to the top of an industry.  And much progress has been made, as can be seen from our reports on women in industries from pharmaceuticals […]

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by Sima Matthes 
 
According to a 2007 report, women make up fewer than 5% of the total number of CEOs in the automotive industry.  However, the recent appointment of Kim Harris Jones to the position of senior vice president, corporate controller and auditor at Chrysler LLC, may be a sign that the industry on the road […]

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by Pamela Weinsaft (New York City) 
Writing for PharmExecutive.com, Kristin Rand recently asked “Where are the women in Pharma?” (article) .  The article reported on a study–commissioned by the nonprofit Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association and fielded by Booz Allen Hamilton–which showed that, despite a concentrated effort on the part of the industry to ensure diversity, women at the top of […]

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by Margarita Shelley-Smith (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
The Glass Hammer recently spoke with Michelle Crumm, the co-founder and chief business officer of Adaptive Materials, an innovative company in Ann Arbor, MI. Adaptive Materials (AM) develops portable, quiet and efficient fuel cell systems capable of converting low cost, ecologically friendly fuel into electrical energy. These devices are already being […]

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by Heather Cassell (San Francisco)
What do Liquid Paper, the submarine telescope and lamp, Kevlar, the windshield wiper, and the rotary engine have in common?  They were all invented by women. Women have been creating innovative technologies that benefit the lives of people worldwide since before the start of the Industrial Revolution; however, until relatively recently, […]

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by Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
 
Last week, Fortune named its Global 500 companies.  This year, women lead 12 of those companies, an increase of 2 women over the prior year’s list. 
Less than a week later, however, it was announced that Patricia Russo, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent and architect of the merger, will be stepping down by […]

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It’s the first bud of the spring that gets noticed. It pokes its head out of the dirt, and blooms regardless of whether others around it are doing the same thing. This is true of women at the top of corporations as well. Often, they’re the only women at the table, and […]

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By: Bailey McCann
Recently, Glass Hammer spoke with Maria McLaughlin, the Director of Marketing for Appro International, a technology firm in Milpitas, California. Appro specializes in high performance computing for the oil and gas and financial services industries; government labs, energy and defense departments; electronic design automation; digital content creation; education and manufacturing sectors.
According to the […]

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