There have been several provocative articles lately around gender issues. For example, Atlantic Monthly’s “The End of Men“, The Shriver report “A Woman’s Nation“, or Newsweek’s “Women Will Rule the World.” Needless to say, the titles are designed to get a rise from readers – and they do. That’s a different issue. What struck me, Read the full article…
Back in the 70’s, the only identified biological difference in cognitive ability between men and women was spatial visualization. That is, in general, males are better at mentally manipulating two-and three-dimensional figures. We also knew that the corpus callosum that connects the 2 halves of the brain is thicker in females than males meaning the Read the full article…
Lately, I’ve been digging through data and interviews related to the book on Gender and Innovation that I’m working on with Jacqueline Byrd. The bulk of the data comes from 10,000+ respondents to Creatrix, an instrument created by Jacqueline. As for interviews, so far we’ve completed 20 (12 women and 8 men). As unique and Read the full article…
Great question- posed by Claire Cain Miller of the NY Times to start a group interview of Gina Bianchini (Co-Founder & CEO, Ning), Monica Morse (Board member, Astia), Rashmi Sinha (Co-Founder & CEO, Slideshare), Cindy Padnos (Founder & CEO. Illuminate Ventures and author of the well-researched white paper High Performance Entrepreneurs: Women in High Tech), Read the full article…
According to the just released White House Project: Benchmarking Women’s Leadership, despite women’s education qualifications, acceptance of women as leaders by 89% of the population, and plenty of women in the pipeline, they continue to be underrepresented in the top ranks of the 10 industry sectors studied. They also are systematically underpaid. The basic question Read the full article…