Lean Out book – Maureen F. Fitzgerald

Stop Telling Women to Lean In

We think that women are advancing, but are they really? We think that women just need to work a bit harder to get those top positions and we just need a few more women in the pipeline in order to balance out the numbers. But this is simply not true. Despite the promises of

Here is my tedx talk on implicit bias

Yippeee… I am so excited to share my TEDx talk! The title is: “Implicit Bias: How We Hold Women Back.” Please share widely!

Best Solutions to the Gender Gap by PwC!

Must read. I just saw the new report on gender equality published by PwC. Its called Time to Talk: What Has to Change for Women at Work. It suggests three actions: Transparency around pay and promotion; Strategic support for women including sponsoring women; and a new model for work-life balance that includes parenting time, re-entry

Here is my TEDx Talk: Implicit Bias!

Yippeee… I am so excited to share my TEDx talk! The title is: “Implicit Bias: How We Hold Women Back.” Please share widely!

I got rave reviews at my recent talk

BRAG ALERT! I gave a talk at the University Women’s Club last week. It was a preview of my TEDx talk (that I am giving on Nov 12). I have been getting some flack recently since gender equality is still a bit of a HOT topic. So I was glad to get this positive

Please come to my TEDx SFU on November 12

I am so excited about (finally) doing a TEDx talk! Please buy tickets since they might sell out. It is on Sunday November 12 in Vancouver on Granville Island at the Arts Club Theatre (on the water!). My talk is called: Lean Out, Don’t Lean In- How to close the gender leadership gap. I explain

Listen to my Radio Interview summarizing my 3 books

Here is my Radio Interview from this week. In case you missed it. It was great talking about why I wrote the books and how I want to change the world! http://cirh2.streamon.fm/listen-pl-11116

We need to Occupy Women to heal from Hillary’s loss

I know why Hillary did not get elected. It’s not because so many American women voted for Donald Trump (about 50-65% of white women) but rather because we are swimming in an INVISIBLE out-dated culture (with old mindsets and systems) that leads us to make to bad decisions. I think that if we challenge this culture (I urge everyone to read my three

Lean Out- How to Dismantle the Barriers that Hold Women Back

I am excited to tell you that I got mentioned in SLAW, Canada’s largest legal blog! Here is an excerpt. Why Lawyers Need to Lean Out and Not Lean In “Enough about the glass ceiling. It’s time to redesign the building so that women and men at all levels can be good employees and

Women in retail face triple whammy in pay gap

Here is an excerpt from the news today: Gender pay gap worst in retail “Although almost 60 per cent of the province’s overall retail workforce is female, men still outnumber women in the highest-paid retail job: management. Men are also paid more than women in every single category of retail work, and are more