081 / Glass Half-Broken with Colleen Ammerman

<p>Has the glass ceiling been shattered? Well, with only 8% women CEOs in the Fortune 500, approximately 25% women holding the 5 most critical C-suite positions in the thousand largest corporations, and zero women presidents in our nation's 245 year old history…I’d say there’s cracks, but no shattering quite yet.</p> <p>In today’s episode of “This Is Woman’s Work”, Colleen Ammerman - Director of the Harvard Business School Gender Initiative, a researcher with Life and Leadership After HBS, a study of the post MBA alumni that examines how race, gender and other factors shape their life and career experiences - talks about glass ceilings. She’s the co-author of <em>Glass Half-Broken:Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work</em>, where the pervasive organizational obstacles and managerial actions that create gender imbalances are identified, and solutions and strategies are provided so companies can BECOME glass shattering organizations.</p> <p>There is still much progress to be made and while we’re working on shattering all the glass, I invite you to build your confidence. Don’t let yourself be surrounded by people who diminish, devalue or drain your energy. Confidence may be the most important resource you have.</p> <p>This Is Woman’s Work.</p> <p>To learn more about Colleen you can find her on LinkedIn or Twitter @colleenammerman, or get added to her mailing list by visiting: <a href="http://www.hbs.edu/gender"><u>www.hbs.edu/gender</u></a></p> <p>To learn more about what we are up to outside of this podcast, visit us at <a href="//www.nicolekalil.com">NicoleKalil.com</a></p>