Women in the U.S. are being disproportionately affected by the recession which has been handed to us by the banks and Wall Street. Their extraordinary and unabashed greed has put us all in jeopardy. Top Wall Street executives and automakers, when bellying up to the trough and taking a publicly-funded hand out, may have to rein themselves in and make do with a $500,000 salary. (Perhaps they saved something from the prior years’ $15 million-plus bonuses and can dip that to make ends meet.)
But women may lose their …

Cross-posted at Advancing Women
Today there is an ongoing flap about the consideration of Kim Gandy, President of the National Organization for Women (NOW), for Directorship of the Women’s Bureau in the U.S. Department of Labor. If you recall, NOW endorsed the all-male ticket of Obama and Biden in the general election. Some question her motives and believe it was a type of “pay for play”.
All the talk and back and forth in the blogosphere, with many women’s groups protesting Gandy as a choice, has set me to thinking …

Reposted from Gretchen Glasscock’s blog, Advancing Women. Gretchen Glasscock is a co-founder and contributing writer to The New Agenda. Ed.

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As NJ.com reports in “Princeton dean departs for Washington to work for Clinton,”
Anne-Marie Slaughter has resigned as dean of the prestigious Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs to serve the first female director of the State department’s Office of Policy Planning, reporting directly  to new Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is very clearly building out a robust and experienced team to deal …

Editor’s note: Beginning this month, The New Agenda Blog will be featuring regular columns from a diverse group of contributors. Gretchen Glasscock is Founder and President of Advancing Women, an organization and web portal that supports equity for women and minorities in the workplace through career and financial parity. She’s also the editor of the Advancing Women Career & Biz Blog and a co-founder of The New Agenda.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to a lobby filled with employees as she arrives for her first day at the State …

Editor’s note: Beginning this month, The New Agenda Blog will be featuring regular columns from a diverse group of contributors. Gretchen Glasscock is Founder and President of Advancing Women, an organization and web portal that supports equity for women and minorities in the workplace through career and financial parity. She’s also the editor of the Advancing Women Career & Biz Blog and a co-founder of The New Agenda.

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I have to admit I feel intensely conflicted when I see stories like the following:
“Democratic women in …

Editor’s note: Beginning this month, The New Agenda Blog will be featuring regular columns from a diverse group of contributors. Gretchen Glasscock is Founder and President of Advancing Women, an organization and web portal that supports equity for women and minorities in the workplace through career and financial parity. She’s also the editor of the Advancing Women Career & Biz Blog and a co-founder of The New Agenda.
Remember those Looney Tunes animated cartoons where the characters Wile E. Coyote (also known simply as “The Coyote”) and the Road Runner …

I think it should be pretty clear by now that our U.S. government could perform a lot better.  To say the least.
And one of the things which has often kept change from happening is that “good old boys”, the entrenched and entitled, are often fond of the “status quo”, whatever that may be.  It’s what has kept them in office and empowered,and, lately, digging a deeper financial hole for ourselves.  A trillion dollar hole,  we now are discovering, with other trillions of dollars of debt to come.
Not a very good …

Editor’s note: Beginning this month, The New Agenda Blog will be featuring regular columns from a diverse group of terrific contributors. Gretchen Glasscock is Founder and President of Advancing Women, an organization and web portal that supports equity for women and minorities in the workplace through career and financial parity. She’s also the editor of the Advancing Women Career & Biz Blog and a co-founder of The New Agenda.
A little less than a month ago, I wrote a blog post, How About A Stimulus Package For Women’s “Human Capital” …

I’m a big believer in proclaiming “Women of the Year,” because I believe in identifying positive role models who give us all something to aspire to.
It also helps to give us hope when some of our goals, such as electing a woman to the White House, seem at times to recede before us like those refracted heat waves that appear to form shapes and then vanish in the desert, leaving us wondering where is our palm-lined pool of shimmering water? Nothing but miles and miles of dry, hot desert when …

Thursday Obama announced his pick to head the SEC: veteran regulator Mary L. Schapiro, who will be the first woman to chair the SEC on more than an interim basis.
Once dismissed by the head of the Chicago Board of Trade as a “blond, 5-foot-2-inch girl,” and dissed by then-New York state Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer (remember him, the guy whose career imploded in a call girl scandal, which led to his resignation as Governor of New York?), Schapiro has risen through hard work and tough, smart moves to …