Welcome to the broad experience. I'm Ashley Milne Tite. So this is the first episode of my new show,

which is about women and the workplace and success. When I was a reporter for Marketplace, I developed

a real passion for the topic of women in the workplace. The reporting I did convinced me

there really are differences between the way men and women behave at work and the experiences they have there.

And obviously, many women's experiences aren't that positive.

We know only 3% of Fortune 500 companies have female CEOs.

And women are increasingly dropping out of the workforce at a certain point rather than trying to juggle work and family. Meanwhile, women are actually graduating college in greater numbers than men.

I'm going to talk about the big things and the small things that inhibit women from getting

as far as many of them would like and how they can achieve success and visibility at work.

Talking of visibility, something I've really thought about until recently was how few women

you see in the opinion column of newspapers. It turns out around 80% of op-eds in this country

are written by men. If you're wondering what this has to do with careers, op-eds bring the

writer attention, obviously, sometimes nationally, and certainly within their organization or industry, but they can also lead to things

like speaking engagements, book deals, even movie deals sometimes. The OPED project is an organization

based in New York that works with women and minorities to get their voices into the public sphere.

They run workshops and seminars for everyone from university professors and retirees to women who are about to leave jail.

Catherine Lanford leads a lot of the OPED Project seminars.

And we are their coach and their editor and their teacher.

And we have had remarkable success.

At Yale alone, we now have the head of the physics department,

the first woman to ever do so,

is now a regular columnist at CNN.com.

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