Annie Duke was often the only woman at the poker table, which influenced the way people saw her, and the way she saw herself. Feeling like an outsider can come at a cost, but also can be an advantage.
Ashley Milne-Tyte
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Ashley Milne-Tyte
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Ashley Milne-Tyte is a journalist and the host of The Broad Experience, a podcast on women in the workplace. She is an adjunct professor at the Columbia Journalism School, teaching radio storytelling skills.
Yuki Noguchi
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Yuki Noguchi
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Yuki Noguchi is a correspondent on the NPR Business Desk in Washington, D.C. Her work ranges from economic news to content on the workplace environment and cubicle culture. Continue reading...
Sallie Krawcheck
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Sallie Krawcheck
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Sallie Krawcheck is the former president of global wealth and investment management for Bank of America. Currently, she is in charge of 85 Broads, a global women’s networking organization that seeks to connect female professionals from all industries. Continue reading...
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
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Sylvia Ann Hewlett
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Sylvia Ann Hewlett is an author, economist, and the CEO of the Center for Talent Innovation. She is the director of the Gender and Policy Program at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Her work focuses on the development of business relationships, career advancement, and the retention of talented women in the workforce. Continue reading...
Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Anne Marie Slaughter
MEMBER EXCLUSIVE
Anne-Marie Slaughter is the President of the New America Foundation, previously having served as the Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department. While often focusing on Foreign Policy and International Relations, and considered one of the very top minds in her field, she sparked an entirely reinvigorated work/life balance discussion with her article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” in the Atlantic Monthly, still the magazine’s most widely read and shared article to date. Continue reading...
Debora Spar
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Debora Spar is the President of Barnard College. Besides being a scholar on issues of international political economy and a former professor at Harvard Business School, Spar is a zealous advocate of women's education and leadership. Continue reading...
Betsey Stevenson
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Betsey Stevenson
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Betsey Stevenson teaches Public Policy at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and serves on President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors. Her research is focused on how public policy impacts the labor market, particularly the experience of women in the labor market, the economics of the family, and subjective well-being. Continue reading...
You’ve Heard of the Glass Ceiling – What About the “Glass Cliff?”
Jill Abramson's firing as editor of The New York Times has prompted conversation about biases that affect women in positions of authority. Was the “glass cliff” to blame? Two prominent fields of research explore this question.
Gender Imbalance in Academic Science
Women are underrepresented in the top ranks of academic science, but they attend grad school in equal numbers as men. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to science correspondent Joe Palca about the disparity.
