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Women of color attorneys continue to face challenges in the legal profession
By WomenSuite at 23 July, 2009, 8:26 am
Catalyst has released a new study, Women of Color in U.S. Law Firms, as part of its Women of Color in Professional Services Series on professional women of color. The research determined that women of color generally experienced more stereotyping on the basis of race and gender than their white female counterparts, the feeling of being an “outsider”, diminished professional development opportunities, and a lack of candid feedback.
Read More >>Excelle.com: Job Search Information for Women
By WomenSuite at 14 July, 2009, 11:30 am
In the market for a new job? Check out Excelle.com, a Monster.com site which provides a fantastic array of career-related resources for women. The site features articles on interviewing, salary, office politics, handling generational differences at work, even fashion tips. More after the jump.
Read More >>Women Executives in Technology Roundtable
By WomenSuite at 22 June, 2009, 9:38 am
If you have a little extra time and an interest in technology, you might enjoy this women executive roundtable; the panelists discuss current issues in the tech industry. You can check out the video after the jump.
Read More >>Dealing with hypervisibility (Part 2 of 2)
By WomenSuite at 16 June, 2009, 11:38 am
Hypervisibility “refers to the additional scrutiny that you receive because you appear different from others. In Part 2 of our series on hypervisibility, we discuss 4 ways to manage it successfully.
Read More >>The Rules (and not the dating kind)
By WomenSuite at 1 April, 2009, 9:34 pm
One of the members of our WomenSuite group on LinkedIn posted a discussion about the importance of etiquette in the workplace and I was really happy to see the topic being discussed. I believe that understanding manners, protocol and etiquette (these are all different, by the way) is of considerable importance as one moves up the [...]
Read More >>You Inc.: Personal branding and professional success
By WomenSuite at 10 March, 2009, 4:43 am
At the recent Indianapolis Women of Color Conference, I led a workshop on personal branding. I’ve embedded the slides below for you to view. You Inc.: Personal Branding and Professional Success
Read More >>Hypervisibility at Work
By WomenSuite at 25 February, 2009, 8:12 am
Research on professional women of color often describes our “invisibility” in the workplace. But what about when the reverse is true? What happens when we find ourselves overly visible—when everything we say or do seems to draw extra scrutiny from colleagues and supervisors? It’s called hypervisibility. Hypervisibility is a common experience for professional women of color, [...]
Read More >>Giving back…and helping women grow professionally
By WomenSuite at 14 February, 2009, 6:51 am
When working hard and living at 80mph, it’s easy to forget how good it feels to give to others. Today I’d like to highlight an organization that is giving back in a way that is helping women to become professionals, with all that it entails. Dress for Success is a group on a mission: to help women achieve economic [...]
Read More >>In case you missed it…
By WomenSuite at 10 February, 2009, 8:20 am
Because we did: the recent issue of Women of Color magazine focused on technology and business. You can read the issue online here. We also found a recently launched magazine, Diversity Executive, for diversity practitioners. It includes a neat online community that’s worth checking out.
Read More >>Women of Color in Higher Ed
By WomenSuite at 10 February, 2009, 8:04 am
Photo credit: shiladsen (Flickr) There’s a really interesting article on the challenges facing professors of color on Chronicle.com with some important references to the challenges facing women of color in the academic world. I hope we will see more articles on women of color academics—they are a largely invisible group, even in diversity discussions.
Read More >>Research on Black women executives
By WomenSuite at 4 February, 2009, 3:35 pm
As part of Black History Month, I’d like to highlight some important research on Black women executives that was released in 2008 and confirmed in a recent 2009 poll. In early January, the Executive Leadership Council® and Harris Interactive® polled senior corporate executives about the challenges facing and opportunities available to Black women in executive roles [...]
Read More >>Women & Exec Ed
By WomenSuite at 29 January, 2009, 5:48 am
Lately there has been a big push to enroll women in executive education programs, and for a lot of women, such programs are great ways to further their education without giving up their careers—though of course it takes alot of work. In the Wall Street Journal, there’s a piece highlighting a few of these programs.
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