May I Say Something? 12 Things to Stop Doing

Yes, the statistics on numbers of women in boardrooms say there still is a glass ceiling. But Wendy Capland, CEO of Vision Quest Consulting tells Inc. magazine’s Minda Zetlin that many of the women she has coac...

[Q&A] Marsha Serlin: Put On Blinders

Marsha Serlin is CEO of United Scrap Metal, a company she founded in 1978 with $200, a rental truck and an indefatigable determination to succeed. It now employs more than 300 team members and continues to grow...

Shonda Rhimes: I Didn’t Break the Glass Ceiling

Shonda Rhimes is a screenwriter who became the first African-American woman to create and executive-produce a Top 10 network series when Grey’s Anatomy premiered in 2005. Since then she has created and produced...

Five Women’s Views From the Top

Adweek magazine interviewed five of the advertising/media world’s most powerful women for its Women’s Issue. The stated topic was “The triumphs and trials of smashing the ceiling.” Offering their opinions are N...

Glass Ceiling or Sticky Door?

Dr. Nemat Shafik will be only the second female deputy governor of the powerful Bank of England when she takes her new position this August. But the Egyptian-born mother of twins has dismissed all talk of her h...

Entrepreneurship Has No Glass Ceiling

You’re 60 or older but you don’t want to stop working; you just want to stop bumping up against corporate limitations on advancement. Then play a different game, Margaret Manning, founder of Sixtyandme.com writ...

Be Honest with Yourself to Break Through

Determination is a key tool in the effort to break through the “glass ceiling,” Loretta Minghella writes in the British newspaper The Guardian. The CEO of the Christian Aid organization, Minghella says honesty ...

Catalyst: 2013 Saw No Gains for Women

Women’s representation on Fortune 500 company boards saw no significant gain in 2013, the eighth consecutive year without significant improvement according to Catalyst, the nonprofit organization dedicated to i...

Mary Barra is General Motors’ First Female CEO

General Motors Corp. has named Mary Barra its CEO, effective Jan. 15, 2014. Barra, 51, who had been the firm’s executive vice president for global product development, will be the first woman to serve as CEO of...