High-Achieving Women Reclaiming Our Relationship With Power
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 [...]
Am I a feminist? My whole, half century life as a professional, a wife, a mother of two and now a women’s leadership advocate I’ve never had a comfortable answer to this question. While this might seem odd since I now run a women’s site, I know more women who feel this ambivalence about identifying [...]
Study: Women at the Wheel: Do Female Executives Drive Start-Up Success? (Dow Jones, 2012) Finding: More women in executive positions means more successful start-ups. Note about The Woman Effect Research Index: This study was performed by researchers not affiliated with InPower Women. Our Research Index includes all relevant research to the subject of women, business and power. We [...]
When I interviewed Mike Howard, Chief Security Officer at Microsoft, on the subject of leadership, we also had a great conversation about the role he sees gender and diversity playing in modern organizations. I listened to understand Gendership – the partnership of women and men working and leading together – from his perspective so I [...]
Hey Guys, Welcome to InPower Women! If you landed here, you may be wondering how you got here and why you were intrigued enough to click through to this post. Welcome to gender-partnership! InPower Women is a site primarily for women, where we support each other in activating The Woman Effect in ourselves and step [...]
An open letter to the next generation. I’m old. My generation – either Gen X and the Boomers depending on which source you use – isn’t going to save the world, despite the fact that we’re going to keep trying. Sheryl Sandburg said it best in her Barnard Graduation address in 2011, the numbers just [...]
If you’ve been following The Woman Effect blog post series you might reasonably believe that I think that women are great leaders (I do!), and if we just put women in charge of the world all our problems would be solved (I don’t!). In fact, The Woman Effect isn’t just about the women at all; it’s [...]
As you may know by now, I’ve been on a research quest to understand why The Woman Effect is helping organizations and economies succeed when there is significant presence of women in leadership. My fourth (and final for now) finding turned out to be a happy surprise. In our search for leadership roles and work-life [...]
Why are women so good for business? Reason Number 4: We’re good investors. In the ongoing hunt for insights to understand The Woman Effect Manifesta, I’ve discovered that the Return on Women (WOR) is really high! – I’ve been delighted to discover that women have excellent investment instincts! Since I can’t think of a more [...]
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The Woman Effect: TEDx MassAveWomen Video & The Research Behind It
On December 3, 2012 I had the honor of speaking to a group of powerful women in Washington DC at a TEDx event, TEDxMassAveWomen. I’m very excited because I’ve long wanted to distill down what InPower Women’s about, into a simple but powerful video, and this gave me that chance (video below). Since so much of [...]