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Recently Google and Forbes both recognized African female entrepreneurs, highlighting the continent’s entrepreneurial energy. This publicity is a welcome alternative to Westerners’ dominant image of Africans as dependent people in misery.
What made so many people unwillingly to put their names on my petitions to get a single woman on the boards of Land O’Lakes and Discovery Communications? I decided it was all about fear, which comes in these following flavors.
Usually, when I talk about adding women to boards, I’m asked one question: “Why?” Everyone wants to know why we should add women to leadership positions. My answer is, “why not?”
For almost a century, workplace design created homogenous offices or open cubicles for “typical” white-collar workers. As that changes, design leadership will require diversity to meet the increasingly individualized needs of the workforce.
To give credit where it is due, some companies such as Avon have been giving to girls and women for a long time. But for the most part, corporations lag way behind. Here are four ways to close the “giving gap.”
The heckling of an unmarried female assemblywoman in Tokyo highlights a work-life imbalance problem that is tied to delayed motherhood.
The business community in Asia-Pacific has many reasons to ratchet up its low numbers of women on corporate boards. Candidates are out there and available to fill the pipeline and the posts. They just need training, mentoring, networking and sponsors to become more visible.
Women are more likely to be appointed to powerful positions when an organization is in crisis, putting their leadership into question, say Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett in this excerpt from “The New Soft War on Women.”
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Personality risk factors, such as worrying and retreating under stress, can undermine an otherwise strong female manager or executive. Fortunately, there are ways to curb this and help women enjoy their proven strengths.
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Women’s work force participation and entrepreneurship are both roaring ahead. But while these gaps are closing, women still have a big problem with financial planning. Let’s resolve to change this in 2013.