When Richelieu Dennis came to the U.S. from his home in Liberia to attend Babson College, he wasn’t expecting to stay. But unable to return home owing to the first Liberian civil war, stay he did, building the personal care products company SheaMoisture with his college roommate Nyema Tubman in Harlem and later establishing a larger holding company, Sundial Brands, that would…
A new Quinnipiac University poll finds that among women, Democrats are leading on the generic congressional ballot by a 58% to 33%, a 25-point margin. Republicans, though, lead among men 50% to 42%, an 8-point margin. That large gap between how women and men say they will vote in the midterm election is consistent with an average of live interview polls taken…
Female soccer fans packed a stadium in Tehran after the de facto ban on their attendance was lifted. For the first time in nearly 40 years, female soccer fans helped pack an Iranian stadium’s stands to cheer on their country in the World Cup after a decadeslong ban was briefly lifted. The historic moment at Tehran’s Azadi Stadium marked a…
Michigan State University announced it had settled with 332 sexual abuse victims of Lawrence G. Nassar, a physician who worked with the school’s gymnastics program. The settlement will pay $425 million to 332 victims, or about $1.28 million each; it will set aside an additional $75 million in a trust for any future claims of sexual abuse against Mr. Nassar. Half a…
“Regarding girl power, I am still banging on that drum, and I’m not going to stop.” “When I used to sing, I’d get that feedback all the time when I went onstage,” says Victoria Beckham, as her microphone buzzed when she started speaking at Forbes’ Women’s Summit. She is, of course, speaking of her career as Posh Spice, one of five women…
Breshna Musazai, also known as Afghanistan’s Malala, earned her diploma after surviving a Taliban attack. When “Afghanistan’s Malala” walked painfully to the stage with the aid of a walker to collect her college diploma last month at the American University in Kabul, the entire audience gave her a standing ovation. Breshna Musazai, 28, completed her law studies after she was…
Early in her career, Samira Negm, a Cairo-based engineer, programmed self-parking features for cars. But she spent nearly as much time driving a car as she spent programming one. Millions of people moved from home to work every day in her city of more than 20 million; her daily commute to work could at times run to three hours or…
Despite the fact that women earn almost 60 percent of undergraduate degrees and 60 percent of all master’s degrees in the U.S., they comprise only 25 percent of executive- and senior-level officials and managers, hold 20 percent of board seats and only 6 percent are CEOs, according to the “Women’s Leadership Gap” report by The Center for American Progress. According…
After an Uber board member’s wisecrack and the interruption of Senator Kamala Harris during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, The New York Times asked women to share their own experiences. More than 1,000 responded, offering up vivid anecdotes of times they had been interrupted, penalized for speaking up, belittled or discriminated against in terms of salary, promotions or pregnancy. Some women asked…
Thousands of women turned cities in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales into rivers of green, white and violet on Sunday to mark 100 years of voting rights – since the first women won the right to vote in Britain. Wearing scarves in the colors of the suffragette movement that fought for female political rights, women marched through London, Belfast,…
