BY: Melissa Jun Rowley ForbesWomen Telma Taurepang is fighting for the lives of indigenous peoples across the Amazon. As the general coordinator of the Union of Indigenous Women of the Amazon (UMIAB) she develops projects supporting indigenous communities that are...
By Megan Henney As the number of prime-working-age single women continues to rise, (by 2030, it’s expected to jump to 45 percent) a number of retailers are expected to reap the rewards from that growing population over the course of the next decade. Women’s changes in...
It was just a tweet posted at 1:21 p.m. on a Wednesday asking how women protect themselves when they go for a run. The tweet’s author, TV and comic-book writer Amanda Deibert, had no clue it would be shared more than 15,000 times and start a global conversation on...
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article about how many women are starting businesses after the age of 50. I heard from many entrepreneurs that the article resonated with them. Then, almost coincidentally, I had lunch with Kriti Sapra. In her late 20s, Sapra will...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS Local) — Teenage girls and women living in “period poverty” in Philadelphia don’t have to worry as much as before about having access to pads and tampons thanks to a local health advocate. Sexual health counselor Lynette Medley, 50, said she began...
By Jason Kottke Women in Rock & Roll’s First Wave is a project by Leah Branstetter that uncovers and highlights the women who pioneered rock & roll in the 50s. For sixty years, conventional wisdom has told us that women generally did not perform rock and...
