South Africa is the world’s seventh largest producer of wine. The wine industry accounts for 4.6 percent of the Western Cape’s GDP and is the nation’s biggest permanent employer in agriculture. However, the industry is almost exclusively filled with wine companianes owned and operated by white men.
Read MoreIf you’re anything like us, you were also jumping for joy when you heard that UN Women Goodwill ambassador Emma Watson gave us one doozy of a New Year’s present: a feminist book club dubbed “Our Shared Shelf.”
Read MoreA new finding by Harvard PhD candidate Heather Sarsons is making waves in the world of economics, particularly in the world of published women economists.
Read MoreIf you’re like me, and you’ve always been more of a Colbert Report connoisseur than a Daily Show devotee, there’s a good chance you hadn’t even heard of late night’s newest kid on the block until recently. But it has been impossible to escape one name as of late: Samantha Bee.
Read MoreUnsurprisingly, men’s professional sports have historically been a boy’s club. However, in a sweep of groundbreaking new hiring decisions, 2015 became the year all that began to change. As Elliott Almond outlined in the LA Daily News, Becky Hammon first opened the door in 2014 when she was hired as the first woman assistant coach in the NBA. Then, in the summer of 2015, the Sacramento Kings got female assistant coaches trending by hiring former WNBA coach and Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman. The NFL followed suit when Sarah Thomas became the first full-time female official and the Arizona Cardinals hired coaching intern Jen Welter for their training camp. Baseball also saw progress with Justine Siegal as a guest instructor for the Oakland A’s, making her the first female coach in MLB history, and Jessica Mendoza broke into the world of men’s sports commentary as an analyst for “Sunday Night Baseball” and then covered the ESPN College World Series from the booth.
Read MoreLast year was victorious for women in the military. For the first time, a pair of women completed Army Ranger school and the Pentagon made the announcement that all military combat positions would finally be open to women. However, 2016 is already bringing up memories from the past when women’s service was considered secondary to that of their male counterparts. In April 2015, Elaine Harmon, a veteran who flew as a pilot in the Second World War, passed away. And since then her ashes have been deemed ineligible to be laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery.
Read MoreAlong with hitting the gym more often and finally finishing that David Foster Wallace novel (right?!), my big resolution for 2016 was to simply be more confident. Strengthening one’s style of speech is a big step towards projecting more confidence. Rather than interjecting with, “Sorry, but I think there might be another way to consider that problem,” I’ll say, “I have an alternative solution.” Not bad, right? And now this same type of filter now exists for your emails in the form of Just Not Sorry.
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