Two women who lost their jobs at Twitter when billionaire Elon Musk took over are suing the company in federal court, claiming that last month’s abrupt mass layoffs disproportionately affected female employees. The discrimination lawsuit…
And where they’re going. Over the past two years, something contagious swept through the American workforce. We’re not talking about the pandemic, but rather the spread of an interesting sentiment: Employees grew detached from their…
Female leaders in the workplace are crucial to the success of an organization. It has been observed that women who hold leadership roles are more likely to be proactive, supportive, and engaged with their teams than…
Elizabeth Holmes was infamously suspected of lowering her voice to be taken more seriously in a male-dominated Silicon Valley. Turns out, that may have been unnecessary, a recent study suggests.
As American workers have reevaluated their lives and careers en masse in recent years, they’ve ushered in major workforce trends — from the “great resignation” to the “great reinvention”…
We work with professional women all the time on their career negotiations: training them, advising their employers, and studying their successes and pitfalls. One of us (Kathryn) is a negotiation coach and trainer and the…
A new study reveals a persistent gap between men and women in their perceptions of how men are truly showing up — or not — in the workplace. This gendered disparity was magnified when survey participants were asked about many of the salient micro-behaviors aligned with allyship for gender equity. Men are also more likely to view themselves and other men as active allies and advocates than women do, but men who participate in allyship programs appear to be more aware of what real allyship action looks like and are more likely to report taking actions to mitigate gender inequity.
Women have overtaken men and now account for more than half (50.7%) of the college-educated labor force in the United States, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. The change occurred in…
Workforce expert Joan Kuhl chats with two women leading the charge to amplify diversity and growth at Haleon – the world’s biggest consumer healthcare company – amid a time of economic uncertainty.