By Alicia Villanueva Chavez on Sep 14, 2015 Female artisans in Peru have gained access to world markets to sell their crafts. They are also learning to demand their rights to find balance in their lives. “When we began training we wanted only to embroider to earn money, but at each meeting something new to [...]
By Ruth Simon. Published in The Wall Street Journal, August 19, 2015. The growth rate of new businesses remains stalled, but the share of women-owned firms has climbed. While the growth rate of new businesses remains stalled, fresh government data shows that the share of women-owned firms has climbed. The total number of U.S. firms [...]
Social change comes quickly, almost unexpectedly quickly, these days and for the first time in a long time a positive bit of change hit the NFL on Monday with the announcement that Arizona Cardinals Coach Bruce Arians was making a move to hire what is believed to be the league’s first female coach. Jen Welter [...]
New Video Series Released Today in Advance of 92Y’s New Women inPower Fellowship July 14, 2014, New York, NY--Today, 92nd Street Y (92Y) and Ellevate Network announce the launch of their dynamic “Women Who Lead” video series, spotlighting women leaders in business, finance, technology and media. The series features Ellevate Network's Chair, Sallie Krawcheck, and other [...]
Published on the BBC, June 9, 2015. The female figure in Facebook's friends icon used to be at the back, but now she's been moved front and centre and we've found out why. Facebook designer Caitlyn Winner says she noticed the male icons were symmetrical (except for the hair) but the woman "had a [...]
By Samuel Smith, published in The Guardian, July 8, 2015. Female job seekers are much less likely to be shown adverts on Google for highly paid jobs than men, researchers have found. The team of researchers from Carnegie Melon built an automated testing rig called AdFisher that pretended to be a series of male and female [...]
By Mary Pilon, published on POLITICO, 7/6/2015. This is a Great American Sports Town and here it was that I watched the Women’s World Cup, taking place 3,500 kilometers away in Vancouver, Canada. By kickoff Sunday night, hundreds of soccer fans had poured in to Lincoln Park to gather around a mammoth screen to watch [...]
By Theresa Agovino. Published in CRAIN's New York. Nicole Anasenes was surprised by media stories that focused on her gender when she was named chief financial officer of Manhattan-based Infor about 18 months ago. "I'd been in finance all my life," she explained, "and no one cared [about gender]." The difference: Ms. Anasenes (No. 45 [...]
This weekend, CRAIN's published its 2015 list of most powerful female leaders in New York. From finance to nonprofits and the arts, check out the complete list on CRAIN's website to read more about these top female influencers. To read the full article, visit http://www.crainsnewyork.com/features/most-powerful-women-2015.
By Ben Leubsdorf. Published in The Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2015. Americans put in more hours at work last year. They also managed to find more time to sleep and watch television. For employed Americans, work took up an average of seven hours, 45 minutes per workday in 2014, up 10 minutes from 2013, according [...]
