We’ve all heard of the glass ceiling, an invisible barrier hindering women from rising within the ranks of corporate America. The term was coined in the 1980’s and even resulted in a special ...

Women, and especially women of color, remain scarce at the highest levels of leadership for elite U.S. research universities, a new study says — and it’s not because of a “pipeline issue.” One example ...

An American Express program that gives rising women executives the opportunity to shadow a senior leader aims to close the gender gap at the top of the corporate ladder. WSJ's Shelby Holliday reports.

Early on, Mecca Santana wanted to be a lawyer. She was told otherwise. “My uncle said, ‘You’re not going to be a damn lawyer,’ ” said Santana, an African-American woman, to an audience of about 60 ...

The lack of diverse employees in the executive ranks of companies is often referred to as glass ceiling discrimination. The barriers facing black employees, however, are even more acute (especially ...

An analysis of more than 100 research universities in the U.S. has found that women hold just over a fifth of leadership roles. Only 8 percent of universities in the study have an equal number of men ...

It was the fundraise heard around Twitter. Adam Neumann, the infamous entrepreneur behind WeWork, raised a stunning $350 million from Andreessen Horowitz for a yet-to-launch real estate company called ...