Why Transportation Agencies Need More Women Engineers Reprinted from Governing.com By Daniel C. Vock North Carolina is trying to recruit girls for careers in engineering not only to fill anticipated vacancies but also because hiring more women could make the roads safer. The North Carolina Department of Transportation (DOT) is using newspapers, masking tape and [...]
How hiring a gender-diverse workforce can improve a company's bottom line Reprinted from Gallup.com By Sangeeta Bharadwaj Badal Gender diversity is vital to any workplace. Not just because it's a laudable goal; it simply makes bottom-line business sense. If you need proof, look no further than a recent Gallup study, which finds that hiring a [...]
Are you holding your own daughter back? Here are 5 ways to raise girls to be leaders. Reprinted from MAKERS Team & The Washington Post Photo Credit: Klaus mVedfelt via Getty Images Could we be hindering our daughters from becoming strong leaders? According to the Washington Post, new research from the Harvard Graduate School of [...]
Reprinted from MAKERS Team & The Washington Post Are you holding your own daughter back? Here are 5 ways to raise girls to be leaders. Could we be hindering our daughters from becoming strong leaders? According to the Washington Post, new research from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and its Making Caring Common project found [...]
Reprinted from: LeanIn.org By: Stephanie Taylor Christensen (This is the final segment in a ten part series from LeanIn.org) Lesson #10: YOU DISAGREED WITH YOUR BOSS—IN THE OPEN Let’s say your manager invites you to share a project’s findings at a meeting attended by lots of company bigwigs. Your presentation goes off without a hitch: The attendees [...]