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A New Voice

I have been reading Leah Eichler’s column Women@Work in the Globe since she began writing them in September 2011. She is a new and very welcome voice in the paper and I have enjoyed reading many of her columns. They are well written and well researched and cover many of the topics near and dear to my heart. For example:   On  October 1, 2011 Leah wrote a column “Why we need the metrics on women’s climb to the top” which included several great comments from Barbara Annis of Barbara Annis & Associates in New York, Beatrix Dart of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and Deborah Gillis of Catalyst. I wont’ repeat these comments here because it would cause ...

Establishing a Mentorship Program. Part 1

I asked Nancy to tell me about her involvement with mentoring. She said: “It goes back to my strong, passionate belief that we don’t have enough women in business, especially in commercial real estate. I have a legal background, so I’ve read a lot of articles about the percentage of women that drop out of law.  The common theme in most of those articles is that women drop out because they don’t have any mentors.  They have nobody to look up to, to talk to, to tell them that there’s light at the end of the tunnel and that if they stick it through they can have a fulfilling career.”   She continued: “I’ve been involved for years with an organization called ...