Super good news for your wallet if you work in San Francisco, Seattle, Austin or Pittsburgh. Awesome if you are in transportation, marketing and advertising, or IT. PayScale Inc.’s latest Q3 2019 PayScale Index, which tracks quarterly trends in compensation, shows that overall wages in the U.S. increased 2.6 percent in the past year, with job growth averaging 161,000 new jobs per month for the first nine months of the year.
Read More“This shows what happens when you tell the most difficult stories without fear,” says Nikole Hannah-Jones, accepting The Ripple Effect Award at the 25th annual Studs Terkel Community Media Awards from Public Narrative in Chicago. The New York Times columnist who created the 1619 Project of “print, audio podcasts, school curriculum, essays, stories, poetry and historic reframing” defining the context of 400 years of slavery in America, has received accolades and awards across the country for the effort.
Read MoreImagine for a moment what the world would be like if men and women held fair and equal shares of top leadership positions across every sector. What are the words you would use to describe such a world? Last weekend, I got to do one of the things that keeps me so powerfully committed to this mission of gender parity in leadership by 2025.
Read MoreLaverne McKinnon loves the underdog. And she also loves to persuade. A film and tv producer, leadership coach and adjunct professor with two decades of programming experience, McKinnon is all about telling stories of triumph—especially the ones we tell ourselves.
Read MoreCelebrating Women’s Small Business Month there is a lot to be positive about in the latest news: numbers are up for businesses overall, revenue and employment, especially for Black women-owned businesses. New from American Express, The 2019 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report, shows the growth from the percent of women-owned businesses of all businesses has grown from 4.6% in 19721to 42% in 2019.
Read MoreAs the rights of LGBTQ workers were recently considered in two cases before by the U.S. Supreme Court, there are other business initiatives to support LGBTQ employees and be more inclusive. But workplaces and companies need to do more.
Read MoreFive years after Canadian native Bracha Halperin launched her own business consultancy firm in 2013, she had an idea that there had to be a better way to rent out apartments. So she began launching the idea for Cazamio. As founder and chief operating officer, Halperin says, “It is the merging of two dynamic industries of real estate and technology.”
Read More“Appoint yourself,” Elaine Welteroth, author, journalist, “Project Runway” judge and former editor in chief of Teen Vogue, told a crowd of close to 2,000 at the 34th annual Chicago Foundation for Women luncheon. “We have a responsibility to make a difference right where we are.”
Read MoreGrowing up in Cleveland, Halle Tecco heard her mother tell of the struggles and heartbreak of her 10 miscarriages and a stillbirth, before adopting her and her brother, and then giving birth to her sister when Halle was 16. Her own struggles with infertility led Tecco to found Natalist, a science-backed company launched recently with $5 million in capital aimed at assisting consumers with their own reproductive health.
Read MoreGreetings from Arizona where I’m up reading (time zone change) with no one else awake to talk to about this horrible article The Next CEO Of Wells Fargo Will Be A Female…Human Shield, subtitled “Giving the worst job in American banking to a woman is the wrong way to make history.” I shake my head.
Read MoreNo victory laps just yet. A new report from The Center for American Women And Politics at Rutgers University shows a disruption of the gendered view of national politics, if not quite a victory. While the 2018 midterm elections revealed that “women candidates disrupted the (White male) status quo in American politics and challenged assumptions, and they outperformed among non-incumbents at nearly every level in both primary and general elections,” the 2020 elections are still hazy on the horizon, the report states.
Read MoreThirty years ago this year The Women’s Bean Project started with $500 and a cup of bean soup. The idea that founder Josey Eyre had in 1989 was to transform the lives of homeless women in Colorado Springs to employed workers living independently with their families. So Eyre bought $500 in supplies to make bean soup mix and quickly sold $6,000 in mixes on the initial investment.
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