Another plus for some career-driven, powerful women in their 20s and 30s, Schwyzer said, is that millennial men tend to be more open about gender roles.

CNN: Cougars in training: Young women dating even younger men

The legality of using social-media sites to screen job applicants is murky, as employers could open themselves up to discrimination lawsuits based on race, gender and religion.

WSJ: Facebook Profiles Found to Predict Job Performance

It begs the question: how open is the culture of your own organization when it comes to gender and innovation?

FORBES: What Spanx Teaches Us About Innovation

They open the door to potential lawsuits as those inaccuracies could point toward gender discrimination or other points of the Equal Pay Act.

FORBES: Are You Paying the Right Price for Employee Loyalty?

Her courses include Cultural Anthropology, Global Cultural Diversity and Gender through Comic Books, which she is teaching this spring as a massive open online course (MOOC) via Canvas.net.

FORBES: What Do Comic Books Teach Us About Gender Attitudes?