It’s time for your annual review and compensation meeting. You take a deep breath, walk into your supervisor’s office, and an hour later come out with an excellent review—and a 3 percent pay raise. Your male colleague goes in next. He comes out with a...
In 1983, Michele Hoskins had hit rock bottom. She was going through a divorce, supporting her three young daughters as a makeup artist and living in her mother’s attic on the South Side of Chicago, near where she had grown up....
When Janet Parker had been at IBM for about 10 years, she realized she had a solid career in place—and panicked. “I had started my career at IBM in sales and was thrilled,” says Parker. ...
Tina Wells started her first business when she was just 16, tipping other teenagers off to products she thought they would like....
With all the gains made in the workplace in recent decades, one inequity persists, and it’s a huge one: for every dollar a man earns, a woman in a comparable position will earn less....
In 2011, when Ernst & Young CPA and partner Karyn Twaronite was asked to take on the company’s post of Americas inclusiveness officer, she had to think hard about the offer. ...