African-American Female Executives Meet to Increase their Representation at Fortune 500 Companies and on Corporate Boards The Executive Leadership Council (ELC) is hosting 200+ African-American female executives for the annual Women’s Leadership Forum and Black Women On…Power series. The focus of the meeting is leadership development and increasing African-American women’s representation…
Social media is used by both men and women, however there are some places where the lines seem to be drawn. If men are from Google+, then women are from Pinterest. We wrote about the reason why Google+ is predominately male in a recent article here on Women Entrepreneur News. Interestingly,…
With millions of American’s struggling to find jobs, a small yet growing number of women are going into manufacturing and welding jobs due to the competitive pay and stability of the jobs. These female welders aren’t fazed by putting on a welding mask or forging steel. While traditionally male jobs,…
At the recent Google IO Developer conference, in a sessions entitled ” Designing for the Other Half: Sexy Isn’t Always Pink”, a panel of 5 women technologists discussed how sites like picture based site Pinterest and fashion site Polyvore keep female users engaged. The crowd comprised mostly of male programmers didn’t…
A recent study conducted by the Charles Schwab Advisor Services to understand how to better serve the needs of high net worth women found that investment performance over the longterm is most important to women [87%], not the gender of their advisor. Over half the women surveyed (53%) did express…
The Editors at Forbes Magazine are asking for your help in creating their list of the most powerful Women in 2012. This will be the eight publication of the list. What sets this list apart from other such lists is that is includes more than just business, wealth or politics.…
NJ based Simply Good Press is a new, independent publishing house that helps turn experts into published authors. Your own published book has become the best business card you can have today according to founder Jane Tabachnick. Simply Good Press provides a variety of solutions for authoring a book, from traditional…
KINDARA FOR the IPHONE, call itself The Intelligent and Organized Way to Get Pregnant. Created by Kati Bicknell and husband Will Sacks, Kindara is the new easy-to-use fertility charting app for iPhone. Kati had the idea for Kindara while working for TED.com in 2009. Her training as a birth doula gives…
The film industry, like the technology industry is still a male dominated world. Young female directors like Nancy Meyers and Sofia Coppola can thank Nora Ephron for blazing the trail. Ms. Ephron died yesterday at the age of 71. Not only was Ms. Ephron a pioneer, but she created a…
It’s well known that the majority of programmers who work at start up companies are male. This becomes evident when we look at various factors such as the names and descriptions of products, to the lists of “Top Professionals” which are typically 95% male. A consortium of tech companies hopes…
