In a recent blog post, Tara Barbieri, director of program sales at solution provider giant CDW, addressed several issues impacting women in the workplace, especially mentoring, in which workers of both genders should play a part. "Everyone can make a difference by reaching out to women in the organization and providing them advice and a sounding board for their career development," she wrote. "The additional connection to another person in the organization improves retention and workplace satisfaction."

Barbieri also took aim at moving female talent up the ladder. While survey data supports that "moving women into leadership roles benefits organizations financially, the pace of change is amazingly slow. Unfortunately, women tend to be shuffled into administrative and execution roles rather than strategic and creative roles."

Want to read more about women in the workplace? Here are links to recent articles:

CRN: Women CIOs say success comes from their ability to steer conversations to solutions, not products (December 2016)

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: Lots of companies still have no senior executives who are women (March 2017)

INC.COM: How women can empower each other at work (March 2017)

INC.COM VIDEO: How the most successful women accomplish their goals (March 2017)

FORBES: One day is not enough in pursuing gender equality (March 2017)