Happy Veterans Day, readers! If you’re an American, today you’re probably thinking about the men and women who have served our country—but we bet you didn’t know how many of those women have gone on to start their own businesses.
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We love that new Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls himself a feminist. We love it even more that he’s practicing what he preaches.
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There are a few quips and phrases that make my body cringe like hearing nails on a chalkboard and one of them is the answer to the question “Why are we doing things this way?” which is often, “Because that is how it has always been done.”
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Kat Gordon started the 3% Conference three years ago to change the fact that only three percent of creative directors in advertising are female. (We know—crazy, right?) At its annual conference in New York last week, the organization announced a plan to do more than talk about the problem.
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One of the highest-profile women entrepreneurs in the world is having a rocky few weeks—and things aren’t calming down anytime soon.
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There’s no doubt about it: going to business school can boost a woman’s career. In a recent survey of MBA graduates by Bloomberg Businessweek, women who earned an MBA six to eight years ago reported that their degree increased their earning potential and connected them to a powerful network of fellow alumni. They’re also pretty happy with what they’re doing: 64 percent of women described themselves as “very satisfied” with their current job.
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Over the weekend the right-leaning Labor and Justice Party won a majority in Poland’s general election, setting up 52-year-old Beata Szydlo to become the country’s next prime minister. She will be the third female prime minister in the country’s history, and will take over from another woman, Ewa Kopacz of the Civic Party.
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The World Economic Forum may think we’re a long way away from leadership parity, but today’s business leaders have a much sunnier outlook on the issue. In a Weber Shandwick survey of 327 executives across the globe, 73 percent said they believe we’ll achieve gender equality in the C-suite by 2030.
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At least, that’s what Mattel wants you to think. And we have to admit: with marketing like this, we might be convinced, too.
The company just released a new ad that rebrands the iconic doll as a source of inspiration for young girls. If your daughter plays with a Barbie, Mattel seems to be saying, she’ll grow up believing she can be anything she wants to be, whether that’s a professor, a veterinarian, or a football coach.
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Israeli ad agency McCann Tel Aviv is known for its top-notch advertising work, but now it can add “brilliant women’s advocacy” to its list of company specialties. The agency recently rolled out a website, Persona, that lists nearly 700 Israeli women qualified to speak on panels on a wide variety of professional topics.
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I recently welcomed my first grandchild to the world—a beautiful baby boy named Greg. Shortly after he was born, I was asked what I would like his world to look like 25 years from now—in terms of gender roles and relationships both at work and at home.
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Jennifer Hyman and Jenny Fleiss know a thing or two about entrepreneurship. The Harvard Business School grads cofounded the fashion-rental service Rent the Runway, one of the most buzzed-about startups of the past few years (with $80 million in revenue projected for 2015), and now they’d like to help other women follow in their footsteps.
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