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Are you hoping to become a corporate board member?  Here are 10 tips to help you in your goal.

Brocade executive, Christine Westland, offers some advice to women who want to become board members.

“I don’t believe in generalizing leadership styles by gender. It’s not productive for people to say that women are better communicators, or women are more inclusive, or aim for more concensus. In my experience, I simply don’t find them to be true.”

A former Cisco executive discusses how Watermark, a networking and educational organization, runs  networking events that are designed to be useful and effective. “It’s not about pushing business cards across the table — it’s about building meaningful relationships.”

If you’ve seen a movie, watched a television show or flown on Delta Air Lines in the past couple of decades, you’ve probably listened to music written and/or produced by Tena Clark, a dynamic firebrand, GRAMMY Award winner, and successful entrepreneur. Learn more about her extraordinary story.

Though Yahoo’s new CEO Marissa Mayer didn’t ask to be a role model for pregnant executives, she has nonetheless become one. But beyond Mayer, what is the effect ov her choices on executive women across the board and in the boardroom?

With the announcement of new Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, the balance tips in executive women’s favor as another power female takes the reins in Silicon Valley. But the conversation hasn’t been focused on Mayer’s significant leadership accomplishments, or her plans to turn Yahoo! around. Rather, we’ve heard more about her pregnancy and maternity leave plans than her capabilities to lead the internet giant.

While recently reading about the massive losses surrounding the Facebook IPO and JP Morgan’s hedging losses, I couldn’t help but notice how it was men who caused the vast majority of these recent (and several past) problems…

Give it up, Ladies. The fight for equal pay is useless. We are never going to earn as much as men because we don’t work as many hours.

What are the opportunities for women executives in this new, and rapidly changing work environment? Sage Group CEO Cara France says it has become more important than ever for women to stay connected and keep their skills sharp and fresh.