Making Medicine Better for Women By Logan Lutton Being a physician is challenging. Being a woman and a physician might be even harder. Tammie Chang, M.D., a physician and author, details the unique challenges facing female physicians and what women in medicine can do about them in her new book, “Boundaries for Women Physicians: Love Your Life and Career in…
Women Less Inclined to Self-Promotion Than Men, Even For a Job Study finds female workers’ deep discomfort over touting skills, experience adds to gender gap in promotions, pay By Christina Pazzanese Self-promotion is an essential tool for career advancement, whether in job or performance reviews, or just networking. But not everyone feels equally comfortable doing it. A new study suggests…
Girls learn about STEM careers from local women in Junior Achievement “Dream Fair” event By Lora Painter On Friday, April 29th, 2022, on the campus of Western Michigan University, Junior Achievement of Southwest Michigan introduced 7th and 8th-grade girls to the exciting possibilities of working in STEM-related fields. The message students heard from the event is they can do anything…
How are women reinventing the workplace? Bryant University Women’s Summit By Patricia Andreu According to Virginia “Ginny” Clarke, the business world is in the midst of an enormous transformation. Clarke, the founder of a talent and leadership consultancy, doesn’t just mean the more flexible workplace precipitated by the COVID pandemic. She sees a seismic shift in the very constructs of…
Why Women Aren’t CEOs, According to Women Who Almost Were It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers. By Susan Chira A year ago, dressed in suffragette white and addressing a cheering, weeping convention, Hillary Clinton stood for possibility. Now she is a reminder of the limits women continue to confront — in politics and…
How pandemic changes to work can help ‘level the playing field’ for women, according to a female CEO By Morgan Smith Although the pandemic has had a devastating toll on women’s careers, one female CEO believes the emergence of remote work has also created new, unique opportunities for women to climb the corporate ladder. Diane Bryant is the chairman and…
What are you wearing these days? How have your fashion choices evolved since you put down your sweat pants and donned real pants again as life reopens post-pandemic? There’s a one in six chance it was made by a woman, according to the UN. There’s also a one in eight chance a woman bought it for you since women make or…
A woman turned her hobby of bedazzling Disney popcorn buckets into a career that’s earned her $40,000 so far By Amanda Krause Jessica Fain is a lifelong Disney fan who’s “all about sparkle and glitter,” as she told Insider. So before a Disney World trip in 2021, it only made sense to the 36-year-old Georgia native to cover a popcorn…
Studies show that women are thinking about and approaching investing their money differently than in the past. Fidelity Investments’ recent 2022 Money Moves Study report shows that women started investing their money a decade earlier than their previous generation. There are many advantages to investing earlier, and one of the primary reasons is having more time for your money to grow. Growing your…
You, like many women, may find yourself trapped in job that you don’t particularly enjoy or connect with on any level. Maybe you followed the footsteps of your parents into a prestigious career that doesn’t align with your personal interests. Or perhaps you took a role because it sounded like a “logical” choice. Whatever the case, it’s common to feel…
