Masculine models of leadership prevail
A new report by Northwestern University, Chicago, shows that both men and women still see women as being less qualified or less “natural” in leadership roles. (more…)
Lessons on the way to the top
A new course on leadership at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, will give more than a dozen of its female MBA students a taste of what it feels like to be at the top – the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, that is. (more…)
Leading women into senior management
What started as a series of informal social gatherings among the high-ranking women at State Street, the Boston-based financial services provider, has become a fully fledged effort to develop and promote female managers. (more…)
Why too few women hold top non-profit jobs
Women may hold the vast majority of staff jobs in the non-profit sector, but female leadership is sorely lacking at the senior management level. Of the top 50 leadership positions in the sector, men hold 62 per cent and women 38 per cent, according to a recent national Non-profit Employment Trends Survey. (more…)
Talk the talk: can women harness the language of leadership?
There is a large body of research into the different language styles used by men and women that broadly categorises transactional, direct statements as “masculine” and indirect, relational language as “feminine”. But is this simply stereotyping, or is it based more concretely in how language operates? (more…)
Double top for women at Premier Farnell
The former BUPA boss Val Gooding is taking on the chairmanship of engineering services group Premier Farnell, supporting chief executive Harriet Green and with her becoming that rare thing in the corporate world – an all-female chair and chief executive team. (more…)
Getting to the top of any organisation has always required toughness and political skill. If you want to be the chief executive you must be ready to roll up your sleeves and fight it out. (more…)
Nooyi speaks out for more women in management
Indra Nooyi, chairman and chief executive of PepsiCo, the US beverages group, has been urging the world’s biggest corporations to involve more women in management. (more…)
The labyrinth of leadership
In 2007, two psychologists – one a professor from Northwestern University, Chicago, and the other an associate professor from Wellesley College, Boston – wrote a book about how the labyrinth is a more accurate metaphor for women’s obstacle-strewed career paths than the glass ceiling. (more…)
Career progression
There is a banking adage that the best time to ask for a loan is when you don’t need one. The same goes for jobs. (more…)
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