Catalyzing

We hear a lot about the dismal outlook for women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, otherwise known as “STEM” fields. Study after study shows that girls are discouraged from entering STEM fields beginning in early childhood and continuing throughout college. At college...

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...