Written by guest contributor Alice Saldanha As a child, I was restless. A squirming, chattering, tumble of a girl, I could never sit...

In almost every industry, women of color receive less support, and experience double standards, microaggressions, and unconscious bias....

Written by guest contributor Stacey Soluade Kate Stanforth was training to be a professional ballet dancer when suddenly, one morning at...

Written by guest contributor Jodi Rosenthal Picture this: You are standing in front of a room of clients, ready to take them through an...

Jane Egerton-Idehen rose from slums of Lagos to run a $200m client account. The Nigerian founded Women & Career to help women reach...

Written by guest contributor Margarita Samsonova Many people are looking for ways to reconnect with nature. We are starting the global...

Gauri Agrawal is empowering Indian women with her craft brand Sirohi. Using traditional textile skills women are turning waste into high...

Join us for this LIVE session with Joanna Jordan, founder and CEO of Central Talent Booking. Joanna Jordan is the founder and CEO of...

Welcome to the second series of The Making of... from The Female Lead Our guest this week is Mandu Reid, leader of The Women's Equality...

Join us for this LIVE session with Sue Unerman and Mark Edwards, authors of Belonging: The Key to Transforming and Maintaining Diversity,...

Joan MacNaughton powered to high level civil service and board positions. An influential figure in energy industry, Joan had to overcome...

By guest contributor Alice Saldanha Reshma Saujani’s 2016 TED talk ‘Teach girls bravery, not perfection’ has stayed with me over the last...

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere...Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly". Martin Luther King Image...

Author, journalist and amputee Ella Dove explains the importance of representation – in the workplace and beyond. A few months after my...

By guest writer Georgia Cohoon International Women’s Day – the day when we appreciate how amazing we are. Women of all types too –...

Next week is International Women's Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. And...

To create workplace and world that works for everyone we need to encourage and enroll the presence of conscious male allies at work and...

The Female Lead has launched a new campaign aimed at closing the ‘Entitlement Gap’ between women and men. What is the ‘Entitlement Gap’?...

The Female Lead has unveiled its pioneering research into why women have still not achieved equal progression and pay in the workplace....

When Edwina Dunn explained that The Female Lead were interested in doing research into women at mid-stage career, I knew they were onto...