Leana Wen is the sixth president in Planned Parenthood’s 102-year history, and only the second doctor to hold the role. Under fire from conservatives in Washington and state capitols, Planned Parenthood chose Leana Wen, an emergency room doctor whose family fled China when she was a child, as its next president Wednesday, picking a woman who won praise for her steadying hand as Baltimore’s health commissioner during the city’s convulsive protests in 2015.
When men openly express anger, it elevates their status, while when women express anger, it hurts their status. If you work with a black woman, it’s likely she’s censoring herself most of the day. Everything from her hair, attire, tone of voice, hand gestures, accent etc is being internally policed. Most of us don’t get to be ourselves at work.
PagerDuty scores a $1.3 billion valuation in a $90 million round, celebrates becoming a “unicorn” company in San Francisco. CEO Jennifer Tejada famously said: “People will test your conviction as a leader all the time. If you’re not consistently demanding and painting a vision for what you want this community to look like, you’re not going to get there.”
A new informal study shows that 58% of tech employees from companies like Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and more feel like they are frauds.
Organizations serve various demographics: Millennial-minded network Levo; Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In; technology-industry dinner series Girl Geek X; and the cannabis industry’s Women Grow.
Conversations between women have massive benefits for the individual and the organization. As the author advanced in her career, she hosted women-only lunches, created open channels of communication, reached out to each woman who joined the firm with an open door policy – sharing advice and my personal experiences, including how to say no to doing traditionally gendered (and uncompensated) tasks.
Here is all the evidence you need that women in STEM are the greatest.
Creating the right environment can help organizations develop employees with grit. The idea of cultivating passion and perseverance in adults may seem naive, but abundant research shows that character continues to evolve over a lifetime.
Anne Salomon is one of the scientists featured in the documentary “Ms. Scientist” – a successful applied marine ecologist and professor.
It’s unlawful for private sector employers to prohibit employees from discussing wages and compensation. Take advantage of that protection. Open discussion of salaries among peers and co-workers, experts said, is a powerful tool to fight pay inequity.
