Egon Zehnder, a global executive search firm, started a campaign last year – Leaders & Daughters – to mark International Women’s Day. The campaign includes both male and female leaders from companies like Apple, Verifone, and Hyatt writing encouraging letters to their daughters to help…
“What do you do?” I love to ask this question when I meet someone new—at parties, at the gym, at the dog park. I’m insanely curious about how people make a living, especially when their world is so different than my own. But the question,…
I just got home from my first ever journalism class. God, even writing that sentence makes me feel lighter, like I’ve just shed 30 pounds—sort of like one pound for every year I’ve been away from university since graduating in the 1980’s. At nineteen, I…
Leave it to Fox News to hit another one out of the ballpark. A little while back, one of their male commentators was debating the wage gap between men and women. Sure, women earn less than men, but that’s because they are less ambitious and…
When I met my husband, he was doing a Ph.D. in philosophy and firmly on the road to an academic career. This was what my hard-core engineer Dad referred to as an intellectual holiday, not a real job. Certainly there was an insular character to…