Illustration by Keetra Dean Dixon for NYTimesarticle “Learning to Love Criticism“ Tara Mohr reports in a New York Times article, “Learning to Love Criticism,” on studies showing that “powerful women tend to receive overreactive, shaming and inappropriately personal criticism”, and
NYTimes: Technology’s Man Problem
Source: www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/technology/technologys-man-problem.html Quotes: Among the women who join the field, 56 percent leave by midcareer, a startling attrition rate that is double that for men, according to research from the Harvard Business School. A culprit, many people in the field
NYTimes: Sponsors for Women
Source: www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/opinion/sponsors-for-women.html Quotes: Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, suggest that women are partly responsible for their absence in the executive suite in all professions. What might help is a sponsor, someone with power
NYTimes: Women Hurting Women
Source: www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/opinion/sunday/kristof-women-hurting-women.html Quote: “Metrics like girls’ education and maternal mortality don’t improve more when a nation is led by a woman. There is evidence that women matter as local leaders and on corporate boards, but that doesn’t seem to have
NYTimes: When Women Rule
Source: www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/opinion/10kristof.html Quotes: “A notable share of the great leaders in history have been women: Queen Hatshepsut and Cleopatra of Egypt, Empress Wu Zetian of China, Isabella of Castile, Queen Elizabeth I of England, Catherine the Great of Russia, and