Four Work-Life Challenges That Can Be Especially Difficult For Women of Color
A key premise of taking an explicitly inclusive approach to work-life issues is that people of different gender, social, cultural and racio-ethnic groups experience work-life challenges specific to their group. […]
Work-Life Solutions and Important Differences: Let's get inclusive
Work-life issues are important to everyone, but not everyone has the same kinds of work-life challenges. Even though we know we are not all the same in our work life […]
MAC's Apology for Juarez Makeup Line: Effective and Authentic
It’s not often that I get to follow up a post about an organization’s disappointing actions with a post celebrating that very organization’s next step. Given how easy it is […]
BlogHer's Bright, Shiny Secret
Many conferences have a quiet, dark secret. The folks attending share some longing yet to be fulfilled, some disappointments buried deep, some ideas that will never become actions. Many professional […]
IS TEDWomen Sexist? Use the "Group Replacement Test" and tell us what you think
Everyone who’s ever asked the question: “Is this Racist?” “Is this Sexist?” “Is this Anti-Semitic?” “Is this Homophobic” or the plain vanilla “Is this Offensive?” has tried the Group Replacement […]
Followup on the TEDWomen Conversation
June Cohen, one of the producers of TEDWomen, kindly replied to my piece over at The Huffington Post. I discovered that I couldn’t fit my entire response– plus the important […]
Separate Still Isn't Equal: Sexism and TEDWomen
I really, really wanted to put this post here on Authentic Organizations, but my colleagues at The Op-Ed Project told me to shoot big…. so here it is, on The […]
Target Misses the Mark on Diversity: Corporate Donation equals Corporate Homophobia
How do you know whether an organization is racist, or sexist, or homophobic? You can use my 6 Degrees test, or you can use an even simpler method: You can […]
Find Your Tribe at BlogHer: MeetUp for Leadership, Business & Organization Change Bloggers
BlogHer is a great place to meet other women who are trying to change the world with their blogging. Everyone you meet there has some kind of expertise and insights […]
Changing the CEO at BP: It won't make a difference, except where it will
For the past 90 days and counting, we knew this day was coming. You didn’t need an Irish bookmaker to tell you that Tony Hayward’s tenure as CEO of BP […]