By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
“I learned the importance of sponsorship along the way,” said Lisa Davis, Director and Global Product Manager at Citi Global Transaction Services. “And I didn’t realize what a sponsor was until I didn’t have one.”
She recalled a year when she didn’t get a promotion she was expecting. “I had [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
This year on The Glass Hammer, a topic we’ve discussed frequently is passion – why uncovering your true passion about your work can help advance your career and can make you happier. The value of passion really comes down to being “authentic” – when you’re doing what you truly [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
The Glass Hammer is pleased to announce the publication of our first ever research paper, “Women in IT: Ambition and Advancement,” produced in conjunction with our sister site Evolved Employer. We polled readers who work on technology teams to find out how they feel about the next level. [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
Today The Glass Hammer is taking time to celebrate the things we’re thankful for. Our new office, a packed slate of fab events in the next few months (more info coming soon…), and even the slightly unseasonably warm weather here in New York (cheers for sweater weather!) are some [...]

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By Elisabeth Grant (Washington, D.C.)
On Wednesday, November 9, 2011, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) welcomed over 2,000 attendees to its 2011 Awards Dinner. The event featured President Obama as the keynote speaker, paid special tribute to the women Freedom Riders, and raised over a million and a half dollars to continue the National Women’s [...]

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By Isabel Eva Bohrer (Madrid)
In her book The See-saw: 100 Ideas for Work-Life Balance, Julia Hobsbawn speaks from experience. As a working mother with five young children and a young business, Hobsbawn had spent had spent a long time working extremely hard on finding her priorities and her own work-life balance. “I realized that the [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
Yesterday, the Foundation for Social Change and the UN Office for Partnerships kicked off the second annual Global Conference for Social Change with a Women and Girls Education Summit. The Summit featured several programs across the world for educating and empowering females.
Louise Guide, Founder and CEO of the Foundation [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
Last week, the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE) and Flex-Time Lawyers honored the fifty best law firms for female lawyers. And while the competition was fierce, according to Deborah Epstein Henry, Founder and President, Flex-Time Lawyers and author of Law & Reorder, the legal profession still has a [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
Last week the World Bank released its latest research on women in developing countries. The report “The World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development,” revealed that while gender equality is making progress across the globe, there are still many gaps.
And while gender equality in itself is a core [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
A recent report out of the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission has revealed that at the current rate of advancement, it will take 70 years before gender parity is reached in the boardrooms of the FTSE 100 – and that’s just parity by numbers. It doesn’t even measure [...]

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