Women in Leadership

We all know that women are underrepresented in leadership roles – just 11% of senior executive roles are held by women in Australia and only 2% of CEO’s are women!  sphinxx is constantly reporting on surveys, articles and companies that are leading the way in advancing women in leadership.  Here you’ll find some tips and tools to help you recruit, retain and develop women in your workplace into leaders; and also advice to help you forge ahead in your own career.

• MEDIA RELEASE: sphinxx, the network for senior and aspiring female business leaders celebrates Australia’s first female Prime Minister as a win for all women
• New National Survey Combatting "Glaring research omission" From the Diversity Council of Australia, do it, forward it, make a difference
  
• Regardless of an MBA: Women lag in compensation and advancement. New findings
  
• Blowing the whistle on Dragon Lady bosses 
• Does having women on an exec create better results?
• Women on Boards, Congratulations
• Glass Ceilings = Glass Walls?
• Tip for Employers - why putting your head in the sand about gender pay equality won't help
• Quentin Bryce receives honorary doctorate from Sydney University
  
• Introducing She Owns It
• The threat of stereotypes in organisations - new US finding
• What does a man know about what the happiest and most successful women do differently?
  
• NEW SPHINXX SURVEY REVEALS DANGEROUS LEVELS OF UNCONCIOUS GENDER BIAS IN THE WORKPLACE
• Exciting new program, BIG step forward
• Workplace bullying petition
• The Modern Woman's Anthology
• sphinxx SheEO receives Edna Ryan Workforce Award for improving conditions of female workers
• Tips for getting ahead at work
• Another Angle on board diversity - does it really improve financial returns
• Educating women the key to improving business in the developing world
• Did we have a women's movement in Australia?
• 6 steps to getting what you want in your career
• How to be heard in meetings - secrets to overcoming the men who hijack your ideas!
• Who's afraid of the big bad quota?
• Join a women’s trade delegation to the Middle East
• France puts forward legislation to mandate gender equity on boards; while in Australia ASX introduces guidelines for targets
• Taking your leadership to the next level with board positions and volunteering - a success story
• Step aside BRIC... The Female Economy is the next frontier of marketing opportunity
• NEWS RELEASE: sphinxx survey identifies glass ceiling dilemma
• Do you need help with negotiating in the salon or in salary discussions?
• The facts about women, leadership and gender equality
• What women really want in business - will you please complete our 4-minute poll?
• Women hitting the High-Potential Ceiling
• Women face a "grass ceiling" cap on earnings 
• A female angle to creating a sustainable competitive advantage in business
• Women: the Antidote to the Financial Crisis – this is what we like to hear!
• Are Talent Management Systems unwittingly biased against women?
• Women and the Vision Thing - Women are judged to be less visionary than men in 360-degree feedback – a HBR survey
• The Athena Factor: a new Harvard Business Review Research Report examining the female brain drain
• Women Confront a "Grass Ceiling"
• Centred leadership - how talented women thrive. A new approach to leadership can help women become more self-confident and effective business leaders.
• Women the rising stars of financial planning
• When women won't negotiate…
• Women and Technology: The Ugly Truth
• Working Parents Toolkit - tips for employers
• How star women build portable skills
  
• HBR Ideacast: How Women Become Leaders
• EOWA Australian Census of Women in Leadership
• Where are the women in leadership in Australia?
• I Do’s and Don’ts : How Changes in Marriage, Divorce and Childbirth Are Redefining the Workplace
• Stepping off the career fast track is easy. What’s hard is getting back on. Careers, companies, and economies suffer when highly skilled women cannot get back where they belong (a fantastic article from HBR)
• Act and plan as if you are a CEO. How to develop a CEO’s strategic acumen
• A fantastic book: The Difference “Difference” Makes - Women and Leadership
• Women Must Learn the Language of Power

If you have an idea to help working women to improve their confidence and competence at work, we’d love to hear from you!