A new analysis done by Bloomberg tells us what many have been saying for a long time. Female entrepreneurs simply don't get their fair share of venture capital dollars, at least in the tech world where they did their research. On average they got 77%...
Hiring as a Female Boss Reality: for millions of years until about 40 years ago, men ruled stuff. They worked outside the home and women generally took care of the home and children. Women only earned the right to vote in the US in 1920. The...
Vive La Difference A classic book, Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus, acknowledges that we are indeed different from each other. In caveperson days, the men were hunters, the women gatherers. This has led to the perception that men tend to do well focusing intensely...
Learning the Value of Time Shifting I have worked with so many amazing women over my legal career. One from a number of years ago stands out. When she came to me early in her career she had a young daughter and was raising her on...
Men: Man Up! In March I started this series on women in business from what is apparently a rare male perspective. In this post we talk about how men and women alike can be aggressive, goal driven and successful in business without undue sacrifice of personal...
Sheryl Sandberg, the incredibly talented COO of Facebook, has helped reignite a debate about as old as the feminist movement and maybe the human race itself. What do women need to do in order to find equality not only in the workplace, but in the...
The American Bar Foundation just completed a study in which they learned that roughly a quarter of those who took the bar exam in 2000 are not practicing law currently. The study checked on this same group in 2003 and 2007 as well. Only 9%...
A champion for Wall Street, for women and for reverse mergers, Muriel "Mickie" Siebert passed the other day at age 80. Mickie was the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. She also took her brokerage firm public through a...
The great TV show Mad Men reminds us of an era when it was very simple for men. Put on a suit and tie and go to work, or get on a plane, or go out to dinner, or pretty much anything else for that matter....
This has been quite the last century or so for women. The right to vote in 1920. "Rosie the Riveters" hit the factories with all the men at war during the 1940s. The women's liberation movement starting in the 1960s but really picking up steam...