Twitter chat: What’s behind the tech industry’s gender gap?
As of 2013, women held 57 percent of jobs in the U.S. workforce, however, they held only 26 percent of computing jobs. What's the reason for the tech industry’s gender gap? Join us for a Twitter chat on the topic…
Don’t count on corporate gender quotas to break the glass ceiling
Could increasing the percentage of women on corporate boards have a trickle-down effect on the workforce? That's not the case when quotas, and later sanctions, are used to force businesses to invite more women to the boardroom.
How ‘Lehman Siblings’ might have stemmed the financial crisis
Former Citigroup CFO Sallie Krawcheck calls diversification "the one free appetizer in investing." That applies not only to the stock composition of a portfolio, but to the gender makeup of a company. Bringing more women into the room, she says,…
Why there aren’t enough businesswomen at the top, and what Sallie Krawcheck’s doing about it
Women earn nearly half of all advanced business degrees, but they're still underrepresented in executive positions. Former banking CEO Sallie Krawcheck explains how fairy tales have told women to keep their heads down and how her network encourages women to…
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress are making a concerted election-year push to draw attention to women's wages, linking Obama executive actions with pending Senate legislation aimed at closing a compensation gender gap that favors…
Costly generic drugs, security at the nations' airports and the global gender gap.
In an extended interview Kathleen Gerson sheds light on the findings of a new report.
The World Economic Forum published a report recently that says the United States finishes far from the top of a list when it comes to gender equality. American women finished 23rd on the list of 136 countries. Kathleen Gerson, a…
An article on balancing career and motherhood has drawn nearly a million views online and sparked a bigger debate about the role of women in the work force. Judy Woodruff discusses the subject with Anne-Marie Slaughter, Monica Olivera of MommyMaestra…
