Women in business: let’s go beyond tokenism and the status quo

Getting more women on boards requires leadership at the top. And we need to ensure women’s success isn’t compromised by a mid-career lag.

Authors Sheryl Sandberg, right, chief operating officer of Facebook, and Anne-Marie Slaughter, left, of the New America think-tank, have suggested women need to be encouraged to identify and eliminate bad habits that hold them back. In other instances, it's men who need to be educated to assess women objectively, writes ex-business school dean Carol Stephenson. Photographs courtesy of New America and Financial Times/Drew Altizer

Opinion

BY CAROL STEPHENSON

July 13, 2017

In 1996, my first formal speech on women in business described the "female model of leadership," and here we are still debating the same topic in 2017. Canada was one of the first signatories to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in the e...

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