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Jennifer Palmieri: 3 surprisingly simple ways to change our ‘world where women are consistently undervalued’
The author, political adviser and former White House communications director shares what she has learned over the course of her career and how women can begin to break free from existing power systems. This morning, I managed to be late for a television hit I was...
Commune…Cult…Freedom
"Life is the sum of you choices" - Albert Camus "My story is about family that may have been separated but couldn't be broken." - Patrica Walsh Chadwick Peace Love and Freedom...The Hippie Era Commune vs cult. It was the 1960’s and the hippie era. Peace, love and...
Here’s how much men and women earn at every age
Women in the U.S. earn 81 cents for every dollar men make in 2020. That’s the raw gender pay gap, “which looks at the median salary for all men and women regardless of job type or worker seniority,” Payscale explains in a 2020 report on the state of the pay gap. The...
Despite barriers, women in business continue to innovate
Women are opening new businesses at faster rates than men despite historic barriers to capital, pay and assumptions about women’s roles at home and in the workplace. According to the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, women owned just 4 out of 10...
Women Entrepreneurs – Passion, Risk and Beginnings
Women Entrepreneurs and Beginnings I have always loved starting from the beginning and creating. From the beginning, I knew that the business was going to be a success. Why? Because there was a need and a void that was waiting to be filled. The excitement was in...
Women Ask Themselves, ‘How Can I Do This for One More Day?
The value of women’s work, both paid and unpaid, has never been more apparent than during the coronavirus crisis. As Diane Coyle recently noted in The Times, women’s shift into paid employment was one of the great economic transformations in recent history, but it did...
How This African Soccer Team Is Helping More Women To Code
Mbali Hlongwane, founder of Pink Codrs Africa, found an unlikely ally in her fight to get more African women coding and into STEM careers: South African soccer team, Kaizer Chiefs Football Club. According to Hlongwane, Pink Codrs Africa, an organisation of female...
Even when women outnumber men, gender bias persists among science undergrads
by Anne Manning, Colorado State University Increasing gender diversity has been a long-sought goal across many of the sciences, and interventions and programs to attract more women into fields like physics and math often happen at the undergraduate level. But is...
Taking Control of Your Life
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship." -Louisa May Alcott "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." -Amelia Earhart Life and Taking Control You never know when life is going to give you a jolt. It’s what you...
Passion, Women and Advocacy
The Beginning, Women and Becoming Necessary In the beginning it was about doing something that seemed necessary. Or rather, what I thought was missing and became necessary. There had always been a question in the back of my mind that asked ‘Why as women do we always...
