Power within a company gets a bad rap. Often it’s associated with greed but the reality is that power is needed by leaders who are accountable within an organization. Be it with financial results or company strategy, leaders need the ability to influence the...
Astro Teller is the captain of moonshots for X (formerly Google X), who is tasked by Google with inventing breakthrough technologies designed to make the word a better place. Here he answers questions about his role in the fight for gender equality at work. 1. Did you...
A Workplace for Women TO RETAIN WORKERS, offer options. Flexibility and a sense of autonomy are crucial for retaining women, especially mothers with young children. Performance metrics for all employees should be based on results, not hours spent in the office....
The human body is quite complex and there are many factors at play at all times. Keri Glassman thinks that many women still focus on calories and using willpower to lose weight and be healthy. However hormones, emotions, cravings, and even our social schedule...
Women in today’s patriarchy have exponentially more rights and opportunities than our mothers and our mothers’ mothers and our mothers’ mothers’ mothers had before us. So life for our female ancestors was terrifying in ways that are hard for us to imagine in today’s...
As Aug 1-7 is National Breastfeeding Week, a week to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies around the world, I’ve been reflecting on my personal journey to motherhood– as I am still in awe of the experience. Putting the miracles aside, nothing...