Her Podcast Helps Women Find Comfort in “Life After…” Moments When hardship occurs — be it a divorce, a loss of a loved one, an unexpected layoff at work, or something else — it can be difficult to find joy again. But Girl Scout alum Sylvia Beckerman, 70, is one woman helping others access the […]
Category Archives: Empowering Women
And just like that…We’re back And just like that, Labor Day was upon us, and fall is around the corner. No can be the right time for some new beginnings. I took the month of August off to decompress and basically do nothing. Yes, I had a list of things that I was going to […]
Lindsey Ault-Authier did not plan for a career in the private sector. The 2006 graduate of Fairfield University originally set her academic focus on art history. In her senior year, she was able to land an internship at a recruitment agency that led to a full-time job offer and an unexpected career in human resources […]
‘Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.’ – Oprah Winfrey So Many Women and Announcing… As we roll out Season 8, I’m delighted to tell you that our podcast series Sylvia & Me has been enjoying great success. Our weekly downloads […]
Pin-up photos and smutty jokes have long been commonplace on trading floors, but the finance world is gradually opening up to women — underlined by the arrival on Monday of Jane Fraser at the head of Wall Street banking flagship Citigroup. Her elevation marks “a milestone,” according to Lorraine Hariton, director of Catalyst, an organization […]
Policymakers haven’t always considered how economic shocks impact women and men differently — or how governments should respond. When the 2008 recession hit, few asked how stimulus measures would affect women compared with men. That approach won’t work for the COVID-19 crisis. As leaders face the enormous challenge of rebuilding post-pandemic economies, women must be […]
The last four or five years have been rough going. It’s tempting to think of that time as one of seemingly endlessly awful, catastrophe piled atop catastrophe in some perverse game of Jenga. We’ve gotten used to everything being so fraught and high-stakes, the times themselves almost hostile to human thriving. So it can be […]
Heather Pulier Outset is an innovative low-risk take on a joint savings account. “I welcome input from everyone to make sure we are building Outset Financial into an Insurtech company that delivers. I want to have our mission of financial literacy, intimacy, and security touch as many lives as possible.” Charlotte Darr Charlotte is providing […]
For over a decade, CouldYou? has driven innovation in the non-profit sector offering transformational programming providing menstrual health education and the CouldYou? menstrual cup in The United States, Ghana, Uganda, South Africa, Cape Verde, Mozambique, and Liberia. San Diego, CA-The CouldYou? Women and Girls’ Health Initiative promotes empowerment of women and girls through the distribution […]
Walmart can tell you how many of anything are in a given store or warehouse at any moment. Apps track your heartrate and your phone tracks your location at any moment. C-suite executives monitor everything in their organizations daily. Big Data dominates our economy. Yet, we don’t have consistent, standardized and real-time data on the […]