Encouraging female students and professionals to pursue STEM education and opportunities is more important than ever. To help strengthen interest and participation in STEM fields, PepsiCo and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) have proudly kicked off their annual PepsiCo/SWE Student Engineering Challenge. Now in its fourth year, this competitive program encourages undergraduates to compete for scholarship prizes and a…
An extraordinary student mobilization in the form of March for Our Lives brought hundreds of thousands to the streets of U.S. cities Saturday to demand tougher gun laws, in a muscular display of political determination less than six weeks after the Parkland school massacre. At many of the March for Our Lives events across the United States, speakers reminded the hundreds…
“It’s important to me that I use my platform and my voice to help break the stigma that you have to be a math or engineering wiz to be interested in technology and code.” – Karlie Kloss. At 25 years old, Karlie Kloss — the current face of brands including Adidas, Express, L’Oréal Paris and Swarovski — is a veteran model, make…
Here is how women in NYC can find an interest-free business loans. WE Fund Crowd is a city initiative designed to champion the cause and needs of women business owners in New York by providing interest-free business loans. Any woman in New York can apply for a zero-interest loan of up to $10,000 on the Kiva Crowdfunding Page, and the city…
Top 10 Cities for Women in Tech in 2018, according to Google Diversity Report. The company revealed that women make up just 31 percent of their overall workforce. When looking specifically at tech roles within the company, women hold just 20 percent of those positions, up from 17 percent three years ago. Outside of Google and across the tech industry…
The FMCG giant has committed to increase its investment from 23% to 50% in the number of female-led startups through its incubator programme called Unilever Foundry. The company has worked with almost 10,000 startups in the last 4 years. The company’s VP of marketing, Aline Santos, announced their plans at Mobile World Congress on February 27. Though Unilever is ahead…
From the beginning, Dior has striven to highlight and promote women, to make them “not only more beautiful, but happier, too,” according to the formula set out by Christian Dior in his memoirs. “We wanted to celebrate International Women’s Day, and we quickly decided we should be empowering the young,” says Emmanuelle Favre, senior vice president of human resources at Dior.…
On record with Aly Raisman, U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist, “I believe that Everyone is a Survivor of something.” On January 19th, 2018, Aly a 3-time U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist added her voice to a chorus of countless other women—who have spoken about the sexual misconduct scandal, the biggest one yet in the sports history. Larry Nassar was sentenced up to 175…
