At a September street fair in Jersey City, N.J., Aisha Taylor Issah knew she couldn’t run from her idea anymore. About a year before, she’d first had the idea to create a space to help women of color showcase their businesses while also providing them with resources and tools to help them grow. Issah says she avoided the idea for…
Demonstrators gathered in cities, including New York and Washington, to protest climate change, pay equity and other issues.
Melanie Strasser-King was just about ready to give up on her baking business when celebrity chef and entrepreneur Ayesha Curry paid her a visit. “I had all of these orders, my daughter wasn’t sleeping through the night and I would break down and be in tears,” says the Melanie’s Bakeshop founder. Curry wasn’t there to place an order, she was…
There’s a scene toward the end of Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Little Women, a starry-eyed update of Louisa May Alcott’s 19th-century novel, in which headstrong Jo (Saoirse Ronan), the character Alcott modeled on herself, anticipates decades of female creative doubt. A writer struggling to produce the popular, contrived sentimental stories of her day and slogging even harder to figure out what…
With fashion collaborations now a dime a dozen, it’s rare to find one that feels genuinely surprising. In a sea of influencer capsules and glorified marketing stunts, & Other Stories’s new link-up with Giorgia Lupi certainly qualifies—and if her name doesn’t ring a bell, your friends in tech definitely know her. As an information designer, Lupi is known around the world for…
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,…