Forty-year-old Parveen Akhter is the founder and Managing Director of Glamour Boutique House and Training Centre, the only small factory run by a woman in Jessore, a small town in the southwestern region of Bangladesh. The 4,000 square feet-factory produces textile and clothing and employs 52 women. For Akhter, this is not a small win. Twelve years ago, when she…
The saying, “If she can’t see it, she can’t be it,” speaks to the importance of introducing girls to female role models, especially in areas where women’s accomplishments were often overlooked or minimized such as in science, mathematics, and technology. A new poster collection aims to bring more of these women’s stories to light — and inspire today’s Mighty Girls with the…
The Female Founder Collective, Jennifer Best Communications, and She’s Next Empowered by Visa is presenting Workshop: A Day for Female Founders. In this one-day immersive educational experience, female entrepreneurs will learn how to foster success for their companies and hear from guest speaker in the industry. With interactive keynotes, workshops, and one-on-one sessions, this conference will tackle every aspect of…
This weekend, SPOTTED Fashion Group will host a pop-up event during New York Fashion Week. This event is meant to revolutionize the runway by celebrating all women and their unique styles. In addition, 10% of ticket sales will support GC4W’s Entrepreneurship Scholarship program. The GC4W Entrepreneurship Program provides female founders and entrepreneurs from across the world the training and development…
For this NYFW pop-up event in September 2019, we will be partnering with Spotted Fashion Group, a community and events platform founded in 2018 to showcase every woman’s individual style. The purpose of this event is simple yet powerful: we want to feature confidence as the only label on our runway. With REAL women of all different shapes and sizes,…