March Is Women’s History Month Who Should We Celebrate? There are so many women who should be celebrated. And many more who we may never have heard of personally, but to someone, a woman who should be admired. Maybe they only did something trivial, like give a cup of coffee to someone who needed an […]
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Welcome to the country. But I live in the country. No this is country. By Sylvia Beckerman I’m confused. I’m a confused New Yorker who grew up in Queens and then the suburbs of Long Island, moved to Los Angeles, Denver, Israel back to Queens, New England – a variety of places in New England […]
A day after celebrities and corporations — from Stephen Curry to Google to President Trump — marked International Women’s Day, Bay Area activists rallied Saturday in Oakland’s Fruitvale district for a more explicitly political version of the holiday celebrating blue-collar women. Called International Working Women’s Day, organizer Jennifer Abella of the Filipino women’s empowerment group […]
You can overcome your fears if you learn to listen to them differently. March 2, 2019 by Karen Finn Leave a Comment When the Kansas tornado picked up Dorothy’s house and whisked it off to Munchkinland, she was naturally afraid. Feeling scared of life after divorce isn’t much different, really. Marriage, with all its imperfections […]
Female entrepreneurs have long known how hard it is to raise money from a roomful of men. “I would walk into these rooms of late-40s, early-50s dudes — potential investors — and they would just look at me blankly, like, ‘I do not get it,’” said Rachel Drori, the founder of Daily Harvest, a delivery […]
As a woman rising in today’s executive workforce, you need every edge you can get. While studies continue to underscore positive correlations between companies with gender-diverse leadership teams and profitability, women executives are still far scarcer than their male counterparts. For example, a recent study found that 75% of businesses have at least one woman in […]
The feeling of exclusion as a female in tech is a familiar one. I’m not an engineer, but I have a bachelor’s degree in business and am a self-taught digital marketing strategist. As a female founder, I’ve raised more than $10 million dollars in the last 15 years. Even so, I’ll never forget what a […]
Adam Shell, Once your children leave the nest, it’s time to rethink your real estate. Here are 3 tips to follow. Sharon Greenthal always dreamed of living in a cottage by the sea. So when the freelance writer and blogger became an empty nester after her two kids left home following college, she turned that dream into real […]