By Natalie Guevara As Bank of America’s Seattle market president, Kerri Schroeder works to ensure the bank is improving the financial lives of its customers. “That means making sure that clients have a good experience with us, no matter how we serve them, and making sure that we deliver the entire firm to address their needs,” she said. During the pandemic, she…
By Anne Branigin In most cases, being named a L’Oréal Paris spokesperson would be quite the glow-up for the honoree—the French cosmetics company has built up an impressive and diverse roster of celebrities to represent it over the years. But take a casual glance through the resume of Jaha Dukureh, a prominent women’s rights activist who was recently named L’Oréal’s…
Lauren Hobart’s appointment to helm of Dick’s Sporting Goods brings number of women running Fortune 500 companies to a record By Vanessa Fuhrams In a year especially hard on many working women, the corporate world can hail one major milestone: A record 41 female CEOs are slated to be soon running Fortune 500 companies. The Tuesday appointment of Lauren Hobart as…
By Cheryl Robinson For many celebrities, fame is more than being on the big screen or performing on a stage or scoring a game-winning goal. It’s about using their likeness to bring awareness to different social justice topics or rare medical conditions or assisting underserved communities. From NBA champion LeBron James to best-selling author J.K. Rowling, celebrities have donated time,…
The founder and CEO of wellness brand Beekeeper’s Naturals shares how she gets it done and her mission to change our medicine cabinets for good. By Michella Ore As a trader at Goldman Sachs, Carly Stein never imagined that if she were to one day be named to the coveted Forbes 30 Under 30 list, it would involve bees. But beekeeping—as the…
Government moves to close gender gap by requiring 30% female membership By Simon Goodley Germany’s coalition government will introduce a mandatory quota for the number of women working as senior management in the country’s listed companies, in a move hailed as a “historic” step towards sexual equality in German boardrooms. In a deal agreed on Friday evening by Angela Merkel’s…
From abolition to #BlackLivesMatter…the women who have fought the good fight.
In February 2020, Julia Paige stepped into a new role as the Global Director of Social Impact at Uber. She did not imagine then that she would be leading the company’s response to a global pandemic. But just one month later, when the news of the coronavirus outbreak broke, Paige had her hands full. Thankfully for Paige, she thrives under…
By Maria Prohazka A couple of weeks back, I was part of a panel discussion at Creative Business Cup — a network for innovative businesses — in Copenhagen, addressing the topic of female entrepreneurship. Some rather prominent and successful female entrepreneurs were on the panel alongside of me, but the discussion quickly devolved into how, today, men in the Western nations are still more likely to…
Math anxiety is a real thing. In fact, women struggle with a fear of math more than their male counterparts. According to the US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, that fear begins to show up in young girls as early as the second grade. In turn, the urge to avoid numbers often impacts the professional and financial decisions…
