How This Entrepreneur Is Uncorking The Wine World By Laura Begley Bloom When it comes to the global wine industry, straight white men dominate the field. A new company, Go There Wines, is aiming to disrupt things by building a unique platform that is making a difference by championing women winemakers, winemakers of color and queer winemakers from lesser-known regions around…
7 Pieces of Bad Career Advice Women Should Ignore by Cindy Gallop Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Young women entering the workforce are typically inundated by a wide range of career tips to help them succeed. Although most of this advice is probably well intended, that doesn’t necessarily make all of it helpful. In fact, many suggestions are more likely to perpetuate than reduce…
Meet The Tech Founder Working To Make Women’s Commutes Safer By Bianca Barratt In today’s workplace, it’s not unusual for employees to find themselves leaving work late into the night. Whether it’s due to working late shifts, attending events, or simply socializing with colleagues, walking alone in the dark – either to get to public transport or a final destination…
Women Are Leading The Tech Nonprofit Sector. Meet Six Solving Problems They’ve Lived. By Shannon Farley The share of women in tech leadership roles recently dropped to 28%. This gender gap presents a huge problem, and not only for workforce diversity. Women experience the world and its myriad of problems differently than their male counterparts. This difference in experience can result…
How Latina Entrepreneur Corina Burton Once Failed, Then Launched A Multi-Million Business By Christine Michel Carter As of January 2023, fewer women were still in the labor force than in February 2020. Single mothers continue to be the subsegment of this group most likely to be unemployed, and it is directly related to childcare. Specifically, the employment rate fell from 84% among single mothers who…
Why Everyone Wins With More Women In Leadership By Solomon Amar The future is female. Research shows that companies with more women on their boards outperform those without by a significant margin, and organizations with greater gender diversity among senior leaders are more profitable. Yet despite significant progress, the proportion of women in senior management roles globally grew to 32% in 2022—the highest number…
Celebrate Black History Month With 9 Black-Owned, Female-Led Brands By Anna Keeve February is Black History Month, a time that celebrates the achievements of Black Americans and honors the legacy of African-American culture in the US. The 2021 Black History Month comes on the heels of last year’s events still fresh in many minds; it was a momentous time that brought…
Increasing Equitable Choices For Women In Healthcare By Rod Berger The less-than-desirable statistics on U.S. women entering science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields are well-documented. According to the American Association of University Women, many girls and young women are often systemically biased away from science and math during their educational journeys creating access and opportunity issues later down the road.…
Julia Haart Talks Netflix Reality Series And Helping Female Entrepreneurs Julia Haart talks about life after a messy divorce that played out in the second season of her Netflix reality series “My Unorthodox Life” and how her focus now is helping women succeed in business. By Dana Feldman “I am good! I am standing strong!” said Julia Haart when asked…
Tiffany James, Founder Of Modernblkgirl, Is Making The World Of Trading And Investment Accessible To Women Of Color By Pauleanna Reid In 2019, Tiffany James followed a friend’s advice to invest in Tesla stock. When the brand’s valuation skyrocketed in 2020, James’ $10,000 investment grew to over $2 million. James had planned to use some of those earnings to start…
