If influencing a mass of citizens toward sustainable behavior is anywhere within your mission, start with women.

I often write about sustainability hidden in plain sight, in terms of what a person or company may already be doing that could be or help drive further sustainability.  In the same way, women … Read on >

“I think we exaggerate the degree to which the sexes are mired in conflict.” – Nicholas D. Kristof

Americans, with help from “the media,” tend to exaggerate problems due to a) tradition – such thinking is embedded in our DNA,  and/or; b) sexy “sound byte-itis” – such thinking makes … Read on >

“The End of Men,” a cover article for the July/August issue of The Atlantic written by feminist scholar Hanna Rosin, got me thinking about our extreme cultural pendulum swings.  Do we really need to swing from seeing women as wholly unimportant to seeing men as wholly unimportant? My gender … Read on >

Updated: Noon, eastern time, 3/10/10 – this poll has closed.

Thanks to plentiful submissions, we now have a big list of incredible women who have made their mark in sustainability.  Because the polling widget I’m using limited us to 64, I left off some names that seemed to represent more … Read on >

Though the findings in a recent Slate piece are nothing new on the face of it, the body of research on gender and competitiveness should be looked at with new eyes.  As the writer, Ray Fislar, put it: Like many gender differences, the “competitiveness gap” is taken … Read on >

1)  Businessweek recently posted an interesting piece by Jeff Bussgang (note: male perspective) on gender and leadership in the VC realm.  In it, he offered up several ways to look at sexism in that field – which then launched some engaging discussion in the comments (and yes, I added … Read on >

My recent post on whether or not marketing to women has to be a women-only pursuit (short answer – absolutely not) got me thinking on a broader point: why does it take a bit of gender outrage (and, so-labeled “feminist” commentators/authors/bloggers often get things going) in order for human … Read on >

There’s a false assumption that floats freely around the marketing to women “space” – that marketing to women must be handled by women.  That may well keep a lot of more traditionally male-oriented industries or brands (or men in those companies) from taking the leap, and learning more about the … Read on >

Are men better leaders or women?  Do we need to clear out all the guys and bring in only women to run our companies and organizations today?

How about looking at the great skills and innate abilities each human brings to the table and working from there – leaving gender … Read on >