Is Your Office Layout Causing Gender Bias?

Most office layouts are set up to favor men's work styles.

When it comes to climbing the corporate ladder, women get less access to career-advancing opportunities, they're less likely to see fellow women in senior management, and they're less confident that they'll reach the top ranks, according to the Women in the Workplace 2016 study, conducted by LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company.

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Maternity men: ad dads holding the baby

In Sweden, they are called "latte pappas" – the swathes of men frequenting coffee bars with their babies who have fast become a global visual shorthand for the possibility afforded by shared parental leave. In the UK, we haven’t even reached the stage of agreeing on a name for this new breed of hands-on fathers. House husband, stay-at-home dad, daddy-mummy ("D-ummy" for short) are just some of the terms being used to describe the tentative beginnings of the UK’s own parenting revolution.

Sheryl Sandberg Shares 14 Ways Her Friends Helped Her Career - Lean In

"When I met Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, she told me she wanted to be unapologetically a woman and unapologetically black, and she wasn’t going to brush either off to the side to fit in. Mellody was a big part of my path to Lean In. Many people urged me not to talk about gender. She said, "Yes. Write the book."

Why Purpose at Work is More Important Than Ever

The radical changes happening in the United States workforce are impacting organizations. If organizations don’t plan to make changes now, they are at risk of losing relevance in tomorrow’s workforce, which will look and function differently than today’s workforce. In particular, leaders are watching as every 8.5 seconds another Baby Boomer turns 50, leading to the reality that 75 million Baby Boomers will retire in the next 10-15 years. Losing 45% of the workforce is alarming.

This is what work-life balance looks like at a company with 100% retention of moms

When Phil Graves, a father of three young girls, worked for Deloitte, his days looked a lot like those of many working professionals. He left before the kids were up to commute to work in San Francisco. He raced through his day, and dashed home to make the bedtime crush: bath, bedtime stories, a few sweet snuggles before lights out for the kids, dinner with his wife and a flurry of emails before bed.

“All my quality time with my daughters was on weekends,” he said.

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