Great leaders come in all forms, but most employees can agree that organization, decisiveness, and honesty are key factors in determining what makes a capable leader. These are the same characteristics that make women in leadership roles successful. For female leaders in particular, there’s an even deeper layer of skill required to guide a workforce in an age when many…
Organizers of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival signed a pledge committing to policies promoting more gender equality, in response to activism from women in the film industry. “The world is no longer the same. We must examine our own practices, our habits and our history,” said festival head Thierry Fremaux, who has faced criticism for the annual event’s inclusion of…
The designer, who died Tuesday, played an important part in the story of American women in fashion and beyond. There is a lot of talk these days about the lack of women at the top of fashion brands — the statistics are terrible, the gender imbalance striking. It is one of the reasons Kate Spade, the designer who was found dead…
With women still pushing to reach the top, they are faced with a range of challenges that many of their male CEO counterparts don’t have an understanding of. It is these issues that are preventing many women from achieving their goal of becoming a leader at their company and diminishing their ability to get ahead in business. Members of Forbes Coaches Council share what…
The future Lean In author gathered her female employees in a room to discuss challenges they’d faced in their education and careers. “I thought my experience was unique to me as a shy, female, Indian student,” Poojar Sankar says. “But it was American girls, too—girls from Harvard and Stanford undergrad who said they didn’t have the support they needed in school.” Poojar…
Tina Brown’s annual Women in the World Summit has been a smashing presentation since it began humbly in Broadway’s Hudson Theater in 2010 This year’s roster included Nobel peace laureate Leymah Gbowe, Ronan Farrow interviewing key #MeToo luminaries from Europe, the ever-regal Viola Davis, the prima ballerina Misty Copeland, and Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton back again, but this time as a moderator of an irony-limned panel on authoritarianism’s rise. But…
Britain’s 25 most aspirational and influential women have been named by magazine Vogue — and there are some very familiar faces on this list of global citizens. Meghan Markle, now the Duchess of Sussex, Amal Clooney, and J.K. Rowling, who in their own ways embrace global citizenship, are all featured in what the magazine described as an “extraordinary cast of leaders defining —…
Women are underrepresented in STEM fields. It’s a well-documented fact that fewer collegiate women seek and earn degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics-related programs than their male classmates. Why does this gap exist? Some reports suggest that women may feel intimidated by being the minority in science classrooms or face work-life balance hurdles getting an advanced degree while raising…
Stacey Cunningham made history last month when she became the first female president of the New York Stock Exchange in the institution’s 226-year history. Cunningham — who began her career with the exchange as a 19-year-old intern in 1994 — said she was touched when colleagues said she was an example for their own daughters. She also acknowledged women who…
Of the CEOs who lead the companies that make up the 2018 Fortune 500 list, just 24 are women. That number is down 25 percent from last year’s record-breaking 32 female CEOs, the highest share of women since the Fortune’s first 500 list in 1955. While women were at the helm of 6.4 percent of the companies on 2017’s list, that number…
