by admin | Apr 29, 2016 | Diversity in Workforce, Future of Work, Leadership Development
To tackle longstanding workplace discrimination, many future-focused organizations are adding diversity officers to their leadership teams. Why? Because the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission didn’t solve the ethnic, racial and gender imbalances prominent in the...
by admin | Jan 14, 2016 | Women in Workforce
I was speaking to a room full of top, female mortgage industry professionals and asked what they most struggle with while working in a male-dominated industry. I don’t know what I expected them to say, but I certainly didn’t expect these successful women to answer my...
by admin | Oct 1, 2015 | Women in Workforce
At this rate, it will take 100 years to get gender equality at work. That’s what author Emily Peck says when writing about a recent *study by LeanIn.org and McKinsey & Company called, “Women in the Workplace.” That sounds discouraging to say the...
by admin | Apr 16, 2015 | Diversity in Workforce, Future of Work, Leadership Development, Management Tips, Women in Workforce
Do you remember Henry Higgins? He was a character, played by the actor Rex Harrison, in a 1964 movie called “My Fair Lady.” During the movie, Henry Higgins sings a song called, “Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?” and the last line of the song is, “Why can’t...
by admin | Mar 12, 2015 | Diversity in Workforce, Future of Work, Human Capital Analytics, Women in Workforce
After four months of rejection by employers, a man named Kim did one simple thing that changed his luck. He added “Mr.” to the front of his name on his resume. And then he got a job. Discrimination and bias, often unconscious, are still alive and well in the United...
