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…
Bonnie Marcus has worked in corporate America for over 20 years and personally experienced and witnessed gender bias every day. She shares, “Some of it was overt, especially in the earlier years, but most of it was so subtle that it caused you to think twice about whether it was your own sensitivity to the issue. It is these obstacles women…
While many believe that women’s leadership seminars and conferences cannot help achieve the larger goal of gender equality, we at GC4W firmly believe the contrary. In recapping on the recent Conference For Women, Shawn Anchor shares his belief that conferences of this nature have a powerful effect: if conducted in the right manner. Shawn shares that 71% of the Conference…
Even in today’s society, the presence of gender roles pervades everyday life: including the workplace. Allyson Case, CEO of Integro Rehab LLC, tackles the issue of gender prejudices in the world of construction and what it means to be a woman in the workplace. Allyson shares, “Over the years, one of the questions I am often asked is: ‘How do you…
Let’s face it, there are tons of articles, opinions, and viewpoints of the best and worst of job interviewing. Everyone and their brother have advice, but according to Gary Golden – a professor at Muskingum University, there is one crucial question you should always ask the interviewer or interviewers before leaving a job interview. The one last question to always…
A lot of behavioral economists’ research centers around the fact that we’re pretty much hard-wired to go against sound economic reasoning and to make a big mess of our finances. But we’re not doomed to failure. We can use what they’ve learned about how our brains work—for and against us—to set ourselves up for success. You may not know him,…
More than 40 years after women began pouring into the workplace, only a handful have made it all the way to the top of corporate America. Why are women CEOs so rare? The percentage of chief executives of Fortune 500 companies who are women just passed 6 percent, creeping up (and occasionally dropping back) at a glacial pace. Why don’t…
Many people have dreams of creating a global empire as successful as Oprah has done, but many fail to realize that her brand was not built overnight, in fact Oprah has been building her brand for the past 40 years and it took many failures and pivotal moves to get her where she is today. Below we will look at…
A new study suggests a stereotype-free childhood could help to set your children up for success. It’s a rough and tumble world out there, so we’re all keen to arm our kids with whatever skills they’ll need to thrive despite the challenges. That’s why anxious parents comb through a flood of advice on everything from the right way to read to kids…