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How Companies Can Make Workplaces Work for Moms
Reshma Saujani is founder of the nonprofit Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms (on which McKinsey has served as a knowledge partner), a campaign to…
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Giants’ Alyssa Nakken becomes the first woman to coach on an MLB field
The call to take her place in baseball history, one that Alyssa Nakken had long prepared for, came in the third inning Tuesday night, when the San Francisco Giants’ first base coach was ejected for…
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She visited Ukraine to reconnect with her dad. Now she’s deploying aid.
“Slava Ukraini,” says Zhanna Galeyeva as she watches a group of young girls busily drawing on a recent afternoon. “Glory to Ukraine.” In an airy, sun-filled room of what used to…
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How to get more women in leadership roles? Don’t ask them to apply
As you may have noticed, despite decades of training efforts, recruitment drives, and mentoring programs aimed at getting more women into the executive suite, most corporate bosses are still men. Three economists in…
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Faces of dominance: Why the faces of women and men are perceived differently by liberals and conservatives
A new U of T Scarborough study finds that liberals and conservatives differ in how they perceive dominance in women, which may influence their likelihood to vote them into political office. “We found that conservatives…
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Twelve Famous Female Trailblazers You Should Know About
Some of the most incredible advocates, inventors, writers, politicians, and activists have been famous women. Chances are you’ve already heard about a whole bunch of them: Rosa Parks,…
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New Group Launched to Elect More GOP Women Governors
A group of veteran political operatives has launched a new organization to help recruit and support Republican women seeking to run for governor…
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Nellie Bly, Journalist and Changemaker, Is Honored With New York City Monument
She was a journalist, traveler, suffragist, inventor, industrialist, and woman’s rights activist, but first and foremost she was a humanitarian. Her name was Elizabeth Jane Cochran, but she was better known by her nom de…
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Kathy Hochul Is Standing on a Very High Glass Cliff
Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, was seated at the center of an ornate dining table, nursing her throat with honey and lemon. It was late March, the height of New York’s…
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‘Why not me?’: the boot camp giving Indigenous women the tools to run for office
On a picturesque island just a 30-minute ferry ride from downtown Seattle, Juanita Perez described losing a recent race for a delegate seat for the Tlingit and Haida tribes: “I didn’t have all the tools to do…