Unilever has announced that it has the same number of women as men in leadership roles globally for the first time – a year ahead of its goal to achieve gender balance across management. The Anglo-Dutch FMCG giant, which owns brands including Ben & Jerry’s, Dove, Lynx and Magnum, said it is now run by 50% women at management level – up…
Google Assistant is honoring prominent women in March with the help of its latest feature launched for Women’s History Month.
For every college graduate who finds a job immediately after they walk across the stage, there’s another who made it their plan to attend graduate school. If you’re someone who always had grad school as your plan, there’s a chance that you still aren’t quite sure what you’re walking into or what you’ll need. While it may be difficult to…
Now in its 5th consecutive year, Leading Ladies Africa, in conjunction with YNaija, presents its #100Women list—chronicling 100 of the most inspiring, influential, powerful and innovative women in Nigeria. “We’re thrilled to be able to show the world the diversity and multifacetedness of what it truly means to be a Nigerian woman,” says Francesca Uriri, Founder, Leading Ladies Africa. “Nigerian women…
Because its “Person of the Year” is Often a Man, Time has Chosen 100 “Women of the Year.” By Caitlin O’Kane Time magazine has chosen 100 “Women of the Year,” selecting one trailblazing woman to represent each year from 1920 to 2019. It’s a distinctive way to celebrate Women’s History Month, but it’s also an acknowledgment that for many years, women’s contributions…
Written by Joon Yun, MD, the president of Palo Alto Investors and coauthor of the book Essays on Inclusive Stakeholding for Worth.com. All opinions are reserved to the author. The world is caught in the vortex of the coronavirus story. So what happens from here? I don’t know, and no one else does either. That said, my intuition—based on the temporal and spatial…
The benefits of gender equality are not just for women and girls, but “for everyone whose lives will be changed by a fairer world”, the chief of UN Women said in her message for International Women’s Day (IWD) at UN Headquarters on Friday, being celebrated in New York, ahead of the official day. As a “massive year for gender equality”,…
Happy International Women’s Day to all the incredible women around the world and the men who continue to fight for gender equality. FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE The Global Connections for Women Foundation (GC4W) Launch “The Circle” on International Women’s Day to create more ways for women to stay connected, to renew, and to continue to evolve their lives in ways…
One of the best ways to get better is to learn from the wisdom of others.
As many saw in Oscar-winning short film Hair Love, black hair is beautiful, but it’s also notoriously difficult to manage. One of the first hair memories Naza founder and CEO Natanya Montgomery has is of her mom brushing her hair into three afro puffs on the top of her head. When she was seven, she started coming to terms with the…
