Catalyzing

The TV show Mad Men has come to an end. But the Mad Men culture lives on in real-world advertising agencies. As founder of The 3% Conference, an organization dedicated to increasing the number of women in leadership roles in advertising agencies, Kat Gordon aims to put an end to that. Here’s what...

“Do you think I’m doing this okay?” my friend Susannah suddenly asked me. I was visiting her in Madison, Wisconsin, where she lives with her husband and their four-month-old daughter.

“Doing what okay?” I wondered. It took me a minute to realize she meant caring for the baby. My first...

Our President & Chief Executive Officer Deborah Gillis is the fourth President in Catalyst’s 52-year history. In this month’s Ask Deborah, we posed a reader’s question about equipping hiring managers to counteract the biases women of different national identities and cultural backgrounds...

Every year on Equal Pay Day, Catalyst blogs about the frustratingly persistent gender pay gap. This year, we decided to go beyond the numbers and ask real women to share their stories of pay inequity in their own words. We included two such stories on our blog last week; below are two more. We...