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People with MS, which afflicts women disproportionately, can live in fear of letting colleagues down. Some think talking about it could be seen as “whining.” Two women who have the disease offer tips on being good, supportive coworkers.
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?”
As soon as I saw the hair-raising findings about the harassment of senior women in technology my mind swung to another recent study of 56 schools and the insight it provides on changing cultures of conflict.
Mother’s Day usually brings women and children together. But as a growing number of Latin American women migrate to the U.S., many of these women will spend the holiday far from their children–some of whom have forgotten them.