With no protections or rights for domestic workers in Cambodia, an expat here has started a job training center that requires employers to pay a decent wage, provide one day off a week, offer paid sick leave and holidays, basic health care and an eight-hour work day.

These common patterns of talking make us sound unsure of ourselves and can stand in the way of being seen as confident leaders, says Judith Humphrey in this excerpt from the book “Taking the Stage.”

The 114th U.S. Congress convened Tuesday, Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C., with 104 women, a record. Eighty-four women will serve in the House of Representatives and 20 in the Senate. There were 100 women in the last Congress. Here is a sampling of their Tweets.

Germany’s youngest and first female stockbroker for the NYSE and later its only war correspondent in Vietnam talks about how it happened. Good contacts and good timing helped. But she also jumped at opportunities.

Female co-owners of the fish processing Sea Dot unit in Chennai, India, are struggling to keep their comeback enterprise going. After several good years, times have gotten tough. As the economy slackened, so did their sales.

Supervisor David Campos introduced the legislation in the hope it will have national influence on income inequality policy. A source of San Francisco’s divide between “haves and have-nots,” he says, is the gap in how men and women are being paid.

Forget the downbeat aftermath of the midterms. Today’s climate is ideal for expanding women’s leadership. America’s millennial women will soon be among the largest political leadership blocs and we should engage them now.

Today–National Boss’s Day–belongs to that critical person in the life of a working mother who provides the flexibility we all need. The author found a pair of winning-ticket bosses, but U.S. working mothers should not have to rely on the luck of the draw.

In my own experience, tips were based on how much you flirted or laughed at crude or sexist jokes. That’s no way to earn a living and it breeds a culture of harassment flagged by the “Glass Floor” study released last week.