Female leaders talk about how they lead by example

Fast Company put out an article last week call "What Glass Ceiling? Killer Career Advice From Women Who Lead By Example."  Though the title is misleading, the article does address the growing problem of the dearth of female leaders at the top and how women are trying to break new barriers in leadership. Check it out here.

Diversity Best Practices Report on Sponsorship

The following report was done by the Diversity Best Practices Association and passed along to me via workingmother.com. it highlights the importance of sponsorship and how major corporations are implementing the programs in their workplace.

Check it out here: http://www.diversitybestpractices.com/files/_attachments_articles/rr-sponsorshipjune2011.pdf

How to Act Like a Leader

Dianna Booher on CNN.com today gives 7 essential tips for acting like a leader. For more information, check out the article here.  

Act with integrity


• Listen like you mean it
  
  
• Commit to what you communicate
  
  
• Be accountable for results
  
  
• Engage emotionally by being approachable
  
  
• Never whine
  
  
• Follow protocol in mixing business with pleasure

Role of Women is Shifting

Check out this article on how women are changing leadership styles.

Some of the trends to note are:

1. According to current research, women now fill the majority of jobs in the US.
2. Bloomberg reports that women now fill 51.4% of professional and managerial positions. Another study showed that 60% of all Masters degrees are going to women.
3. Twenty-three percent of men don’t make as much as their wives. Single women between the ages of 22 and 30 earned 8% more than men in that age group in most American cities.
4. C Level moms are no longer remarkable. In the IT sector, it became more common when we saw organizations like Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, EBay and Yahoo run by women who often had families as well as big jobs. Women often manage differently than men. Those organizations reflect that difference.
5. Homes are now purchased twice as often by women than men.
6. Single motherhood is now frequently a conscious lifestyle choice worldwide. Futurist Faith Popcorn reports that a third of Japanese women in their 30s are unmarried. Marriage has lost its status of mandatory life goal.
7. Asians are leading the business trends toward more matriarchy with a third of Thailand’s CEOs being women and China showing 34% of all senior management positions being held by the ladies.
8. Catalyst Organization reported in December that in the US those organizations with higher levels of gender diversity in the boardroom outperform companies with zero board women by 84% on sales, 60% on invested capital and 46% on return on equity.

From Tech Republic.com

Women in Wine

                                                  image by Jeanne Noonan for New York Daily News

Props to these fantastic ladies for forging ahead in a male-dominated industry. I have met some of those "good ole boys" from the spirits business and let me tell you, they are not easy. Read the article from the New York Daily News to find out more.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/female-sommeliers-mandy-oser-running-wine-programs-top-york-city-restaurants-article-1.1008806

The Corner Office

The Sponsor Effect: Why Qualified Women Don't Make it to The Corner Office       

        

Bloomberg's Changing Landscape



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Bloomberg: "Daddy" is the new "Mommy"

Check out this article from Bloomberg on the recent trend for men to stay home with the kids while women head off to work.

Behind Every Great Woman