Category: PDJ

By Grace Austin Discrimination against women by laws, policies, and other legislation around the globe is still a major impediment to gender equality, despite all the progress made towards female empowerment throughout the world. These issues, according to the UN, include laws discriminating against or not protecting women from a too-early age of marriage, nationality,… Read the full article

By Kimberly Gerber, president and CEO of Excelerate Virtual communication has changed the way employees communicate, presenting major advantages and some new challenges. Today’s mobile workforce have an amazing array of technologies available at their fingertips to connect themselves with other workers, customers, competitors, and resources available across the world. On the flip side, many… Read the full article

During Barack Obama’s first term as president, most of his pro-employee legislative agenda was stymied by Congress. Undeterred, the Obama Administration turned to administrative agencies such as the Department of Labor, National Labor Relations Board, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to move forward its workplace agenda. The stakes continue to be high for employers… Read the full article

By Grace Austin Founded in 2010, The Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) was created with the mission to develop initiatives to improve diversity in the legal field. The LCLD seeks to unite both corporate legal departments and individual firms to take action on a national level. “Our world is diverse. The organizations that participate… Read the full article

Elizabeth Cogswell Baskin is president and CEO of Tribe, Inc., an internal communications firm that works with national and global brands like UPS, Coca-Cola, Target, Embassy Suites, Chick-Fil-A, Porsche, Invesco, and Elavon. She is also the author of several books, including Run Your Business Like a Girl, a study of female entrepreneurs. She has created… Read the full article

By Judy Shen-Filerman Many professionals who have come from other cultures are not used to the way Americans socialize at work. Our sarcastic humor, our “how was your weekend as a passing-by comment” make make many non-natives feel on the periphery and unwelcome in work circles. Professionals have mentioned not understanding the humor or feeling… Read the full article

By Noëlle Bernard The failure to understand the legal system is a major cause of the short lifespan of many small businesses in the United States. In order to help small businesses avoid becoming one of the 660,000 firms that close each year, the Small Business Administration (SBA) offers free counseling through the nonprofit association… Read the full article

By Bari Zell Weingberger | WEINBERGER LAW GROUP, NEW JERSEY New Department of Defense statistics show that women serving in the military are now three times more likely than men to end their marriages. What does the stress of war do to marriage? In recent years, this question has been answered by Department of Defense… Read the full article

Dr. Toby S. Jenkins “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” – Christopher Reeves Who are you really and what people, places, and experiences contributed deeply in the making of you? The traditional view of powerful leaders has often been white, male, and upper… Read the full article

By Grace Austin Crowdfunding has been used for nearly every avenue that one could possibly think of: small businesses, nonprofits, and even movies. Now the phenomenon has reached higher education. A new crowdfunding website, Angeldorm, seeks to offer the first major online fundraising site connecting students to donors. Student loan debt is a fact of… Read the full article