By Elizabeth Harrin (London)
The UK has a new initiative for women who want to make it to the top: Women for Boards, sponsored by MWM Consulting, aims to support female high-fliers in their drive to become non-executive directors for major companies.
“Female board directors remain rare and still face a steep climb to the top,” [...]

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By Jessica Titlebaum (Chicago)
For all the progress women have made in the workplace, the numbers just aren’t showing it. One Chicago group is shaking its head at the statistics and looking at ways to increase the amount of women on corporate boards.
The Chicago Network, an organization dedicated to connecting and promoting high-profile women, has [...]

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By Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles)
For the past five years, the UC Davis Graduate School of Management has worked in conjunction with the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives (FWE&E) to collect the data for their Study of California’s Women Business Leaders, which takes a census of California’s women directors and officers and sheds light on [...]

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By Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
Russian-born, Israeli-bred Natalie Kaminski has moxie. The chief executive and founder of FinCode Solutions came by herself to the United States at the tender age of eighteen, with only a high school diploma under her belt and a desire to build a career; in what, though, she wasn’t sure.
As [...]

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By Andrea Newell (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
The Exxon Mobil Foundation’s Women’s Economic Opportunity Initiative has partnered with The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) to support and advance women’s leadership around the world. The Global Women in Management program, a month-long workshop developed and facilitated by the CEDPA and sponsored by ExxonMobil, was most recently [...]

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Jacqueline B. Libster (New York City)
Creating workforce gender equality is a multifaceted project, including the work to help women at the top right now, as well as planting the seeds for success for future generations. That’s why many organizations are working to help girls and young women develop leadership skills that will carry them from [...]

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By Elizabeth Harrin (London)
When I worked for a global financial services firm in Paris, I constantly found myself explaining to my French colleagues that both my degrees were in literature but in the UK I was still employable. French business is the bastion of people (read: men from wealthy backgrounds) who have gone to [...]

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Contributed by Caroline Ceniza-Levine of SixFigureStart™
I often get market-related questions: what are employment prospects; what are the hot industries; who is hiring. Keep in mind that employment statistics are not worth following for your career planning. Fears of 10% unemployment are misplaced. The statistic you care about is either 0% or [...]

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By Elizabeth Harrin (New York)
After a year off, you would imagine that employers would be falling over themselves to welcome new mothers back to the workplace. Apparently not. One in three women report that going back to work after having a baby is difficult, according to a new study by the NCT, UK’s [...]

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By Elizabeth Harrin (London)
The global economy has taken a battering recently – but not everywhere has been equally affected. Ernst & Young’s ITEM Club, one of the UK’s best-known independent economic forecasting groups, is predicting that the emerging markets will grow about 1% this year. Admittedly, growth up until recently had been around [...]

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