High-Achieving Women Reclaiming Our Relationship With Power
I started InPower Women to rewrite the feminist narrative on women and power. Here we favor InPowerment over empowerment, we provide resources for you to learn more about your own power and we activate The Woman Effect every day. I also write for Smartbrief on Leadership & The National Journal. Follow me! (I follow back) LinkedIn Google+ Twitter RSS
It takes a lot of guts to be an entrepreneur and it takes even more guts to be a single mom entrepreneur. That’s why Mary Ellen Slayter, Founder of Reputation Capital Media Services, is one of my personal heroines. She’s running a successful business that’s growing quickly, helping corporations turn the online publishing paradigm into [...]
I recently saw Iron Man III with my family and it was a good time. Bad guys. Good guys. Destruction. Even a humble pie big enough to go around. As I enjoyed the pyrotechnics and good-guy triumph, however, I was reminded of how completely our comic books reinforce the most unhelpful of bad boy leadership [...]
Study: Lessons From the Leading Edge of Gender Diversity (McKinsey: Barsh, Nudelman, Yee, April, 2013) Finding: By integrating the findings of several years of research, McKinsey has distilled four qualities of the organizations with the greatest gender diversity. Note about The Woman Effect Research Index: This study was performed by researchers not affiliated with InPower Women. [...]
Jory des Jardins is an InPowerhouse. As one of the co-founders of BlogHer, she and her partners dedicated their business to helping empower women – personally and economically – and as a result, Blogher has become a hotbed of women on the web (full discloser, InPower Women shows up there from time to time!) Jory [...]
Photo Credit: Free Digital Photos Ladies, I write a lot for women, but I talk to many men who want to help us too. I recently wrote this for Smartblogs on Leadership (where lots of men hang out) and thought you might like to pass it on to the men you know that have women [...]
Why would anyone follow a leader with no self-confidence? They wouldn’t. Do women struggle with self-confidence more than men? Yes. Then why are we surprised when there aren’t as many female leaders as male leaders in our businesses and society? We shouldn’t be. Now, I know very well that moving women in to more leadership [...]
I want you to meet an InPower woman. Dallice Joyner has risen above the most abject circumstances of poverty and prejudice to be an effective and motivating leader of an organization doing much needed work in our society. Dallice is the Executive Director of the Northern Virginia AHEC, an organization providing cultural competence and language [...]
Staying healthy is a critical career and leadership skill. We simply can’t be powerful in the world and make the difference we want to make if we don’t have the energy to it all (whatever we believe “it all” is in our own lives). As I’m finding personally, as I age, my challenge to stay [...]
Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, Lean In, has generated a ton of dialog about women and work – not all of it positive, and not all the criticism from men. Actually, the only criticism I’ve read or heard has been from women, and it seems to literally illustrate her point that sexism is very cultural and [...]
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What’s Wrong With Women’s Empowerment?
What’s wrong with women’s empowerment? Nothing and everything. At its best, women’s empowerment programs are an organizational (or social) recognition that cultural barriers diminish women’s chances to succeed and make an attempt to counteract those forces to give women a better chance. Why? Not just because it’s the right thing to do from a social [...]