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Here’s who made Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business list
Accenture CEO Julie Sweet and General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra top the new 2020 list of Fortune's Most Powerful Women in Business, which was released Monday. Because of the multiple crises marking this year -- the pandemic, economic shocks, an overdue...
Climate Crisis and Talking to Children
Climate change, climate crisis and telling children the truth. Climate change, climate crisis and talking to our children. Truth telling. It sounds so easy, it sounds so natural. Are we doing them a disservice by telling them half-truths? And what if the truth...
Kamala Harris and the shameful history of slamming women as ‘unlikable’
In reviewing Kamala D. Harris’s performance in Wednesday night’s vice-presidential debate, two thoughts occurred to President Trump. “Totally unlikable,” he said during an interview on Fox Business. He also called her “a monster” — twice. Trump, who has never been big...
Women are not financially illiterate. They need more than condescending advice
Debate about recent and upcoming changes to superannuation, including the early release scheme and the proposed rise to the superannuation guarantee, has been running hot for a few months now. Likewise, the fact that women have been disproportionately hit by the...
What works for women microentrepreneurs?
A meta-analysis of recent evaluations to support female entrepreneurship Around the globe, women participate less in paid economic activities than men. The gender gap in labor force participation is around 14 percent in the median OECD country, 26 percent in the...
How The World’s Most Powerful Women Are Reacting To The Death Of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
It felt like the grief came instantaneously. Within minutes of the Supreme Court’s announcement Friday night that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had passed away at the age of 87 , tributes in her honor poured across social media, in text messages between family and...
Meet the Women Leading Today’s Labor Movement
By Hilary Weaver This Labor Day, the U.S. is battling a pandemic that has resulted in the deaths of more than 187,000 U.S. residents and millions of lost jobs. The crisis has necessitated those deemed “essential workers” to continue to risk their lives every day, but...
Balancing Career & Family with Theresa Carroll
Theresa Carroll: Award Winning Entrepreneur, Founder/Co-Owner Homestead Inn & Thomas Henkelmann, Principal & Managing Member Homestead Associates LLC ‘Boy, it’s been an interesting time to be a woman because we’re groundbreaking.’ SO HOW DID THIS MOTHER OF...
With pandemic, more women are choosing feeling good over looking good
It's not that we women have stopped caring about beauty. We just care more about our well-being. By Elizabeth Wellington Recurring beauty appointments were once staples in our planners. We set firm dates for colors, cuts and weave maintenance. We penciled in times to...
Will The Coronavirus Exacerbate Inequality For Women Entrepreneurs?
It is a hard time to be a small business in America. Payroll subsidies for businesses have ended at the same time that unemployment payments are decreasing for workers, leaving business owners hard-pressed to pay employees and consumers less likely to make purchases....
