So you recently had a baby. You are bleary-eyed and massively sleep-deprived to say the least. In the US, after about six weeks, your paid-maternity leave ends and its time for you to head – or rather wander – back to work. At this point, you really wish you had chosen one of the more “family [...]

It’s easy to find people who will critique your business and tell you how to run it. But no one actually explains the hard part:  how to make money.  I know many women entrepreneurs who, like me, tend to focus on the creative side of business, with a thousand new ideas racing in our brains, [...]

Pretend you were pushed out on to a playing field. Everyone had a ball and was throwing it. It looked like there might be two teams based on there being people in red shirts and blue shirts. You are expected to join in, play the game and win. But you don’t even know the rules. [...]

“Everyone thinks you are failing.” “Everyone thinks you are difficult to work with.” These are the kind of feedback comments that are often hurtful and difficult for a woman to accept. We are trained socially and wired emotionally to strive to be liked. However, these are two examples of what I call bogus feedback. It [...]

As I write this, the U.S. national debt is more than $15 trillion.  Although my own debt isn’t quite that high, I can really relate.  For most of my adult life, I’ve had problems with money.  In spite of inheriting a fierce frugality compulsion from my Depression-era parents, underearning and debting always felt more like [...]

Editor’s Note: Jack Zenger & Joseph Folkman, who run the leadership development consultancy Zenger | Folkman, have a post at Harvard Business Review highlighting a gender-based study they conducted on business leadership. The data indicates although there are many more men than women in business leadership positions, more women were rated by their peers, their [...]

Editor’s Note: Depressing, yet unsurprising story on Jezebel, via Bloomberg Businessweek, comparing salary figures for men versus women. Data culled from U.S. Census figures says the median female salary exceeded the amount paid to men in only one of 265 “major occupations.” The census data underscore the lack of financial progress made in the years since [...]