“I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.” ~ Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube Summary: Women CEOs are few…
“I knew that if I wanted to gain anything of value I must remember that it was not mine alone to keep.” ~ Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche, Financial Educator Summary: Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche is an award-winning teacher of financial empowerment and is quickly becoming America’s favorite, personal financial educator. The Budgetnista specializes in the delivery of financial literacy and…
“To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.” ~ Toni Braxton, Singer/Songwriter, Ambassador for Lupus & Artism Summary: Toni Braxton is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, record producer, actress, television personality, and philanthropist. Rising to fame in the early 1990s, Braxton quickly established herself as an R&B icon and became one of the best-selling female artists of the 1990s…
“For a long time, girls have been disenfranchised, facing early marriages, dropping out of school, gender violence, little access to economic empowerment or to capital for businesses. We are not disempowering men by empowering women, we are trying to create an inclusive society where each and every person has an opportunity to maximize on their potential.” ~ Vivian Onano, Women’s Rights Activist…
‘“You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.” ~Zaha Hadid, Architect Summary: Zaha Hadid has become one of the most influential female figures in an otherwise male-dominated industry. Her outstanding contribution to the contemporary architecture has been recognized by the world’s most respected institutions across the world, and…
Gestational Diabetes is first diagnose during pregnancy, but did you know that the disease affects nearly one in 10 pregnancies, even if the mother-to-be did not have diabetes before she conceived. The following are important findings on Gestational Diabetes presented by two health experts. 1. Gestational diabetes is becoming far more common. “The proportion of women diagnosed with gestational diabetes doubled between 1996 and…
Kick-start your workout with these 10 exercises that target every part of your body from Adam Campbell’s The Women’s Health Big Book of Exercises, in which he includes over 600 exercises, along with scores of cutting-edge workouts from the world’s top trainers. 1. Abs: Mountain Climber with Hands on Swiss Ball The benefit: It’s one of the simplest, yet most effective…
At every stage of women’s lives, nutrition and regular exercise are the cornerstones of good health and optimal energy. But certain vitamins and minerals become especially important at particular times of life. Knowing which matter most can help you choose the best foods and supplements. Nutrition for Girls in Childhood and Early Teens The best guarantee that growing girls get the nutrition they…
Jeena Cho, a Forbes contributor who covers mental health, mindfulness and work-life integration, is also a lawyer who teaches other lawyers and professionals to practice mindfulness and meditation. She notes the irony in this, as layers may seem like an unlikely group of professionals to practice mindfulness and meditation, but there’s a growing number of law schools and firms teaching these…
Sociologist Susan Walzer published a research article in 1996, called “Thinking About the Baby,” pointing to this household gender gap. Scholars had already documented that women, even those who worked full time, were doing the majority of what came to be called the “second shift”: the work that greets us when we come home from work. Walzer was interested in…
