by Liz O’Donnell (Boston)
Who’s really keeping women out of the executive suite — the man in the boardroom or the man in the bedroom?
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Women hold only 15 percent of all board seats and more than half (68 percent) of public corporations still have no women among their top compensated executives. Women are still earning, on [...]

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by Heather Cassell (San Francisco)
Shellye Archambeau, chief executive officer of MetricStream, a market leader in quality governance, risk, and compliance process and management solutions for diverse multi-national corporations, always knew she wanted to run a company.
More than 20 years experience in the technology industry, Archambeau is one of the few African American women leading the [...]

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Contributed by Martin Mitchell of the Corporate Training Group
In case you were too busy to have kept up with all the news, contributor Martin Mitchell has gathered some important market events from last week to help you start this week well informed:    Â
Mergers and Acquisitions

The world’s second biggest cement maker, Holcim purchased the Australian operations of [...]

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by Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast of the United States, destroying countless homes and neighborhoods and displacing hundreds of thousands of people throughout Louisiana and Mississippi.    The images were all over the news.  There was an outpouring of money and support.  And some, including Caroline Finley and [...]

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By Jessica Titlebaum (Chicago)

London is one of my favorite cities so I jumped at the chance to travel across the pond to cover the International Derivatives Expo (IDX) last week.  Hosted by the Futures Industry Association (FIA) and the Futures and Options Association (FOA), the two-day event gathered some of the most influential players in [...]

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by Liz O’Donnell (Boston)
In the 1997 blockbuster movie “The Full Monty,”  Tom Wilkinson’s character loses his job but fakes having one to hide the truth from his wife. He gets up every morning, puts on his suit, tucks his morning paper under his arm and heads out, only to return home after five p.m. In [...]

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by Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
There aren’t many professional women who can claim that they decided to pursue a career in accounting while they were inside an Italian mountain.  Yet that’s exactly where Heather Paquette, Partner in the Midwest Information Technology Advisory (ITA) Practice in the Chicago office of KPMG LLP, came to her decision.  [...]

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Contributed by Caroline Ceniza-Levine of SixFigureStart
What can I put in the resume to guarantee an interview? How do employers decide who to invite from the resume pile? What keywords can I use to make my resume stand out online?
I get a resume-related question at every workshop. I have written before and say in every workshop [...]

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By Andrea Newell (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
As we have previously reported, a 2004 study by Catalyst, a global non-profit organization dedicated to expanding opportunities for women in the workplace, showed that Fortune 500 companies with more women board directors performed significantly higher than the companies with the least number of women board directors: 53% higher return [...]

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by Liz O’Donnell (Boston)
When Lisa Powers joined Phillips Lytle LLP, a Rochester-based law firm, in 1999, she didn’t think to ask about the firm’s maternity leave policy. She was thinking about her career, not starting a family. However, in 2002 she got pregnant and discovered the firm had “one of most generous maternity policies.” Phillips [...]

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