Erst & Young LLP has announced the Florida winner of the 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year award. Rhonda Shear, who is the CEO of Shear Enterprises, received the award for her contribution in the Retail and Consumer Products category. Shear Enterprises, which Shears started when she was 46, is the…
Today, Yahoo officially launched a site for women who are both bi-cultural and bilingual. The site, known as “Shine Latina”, merges together women’s American lifestyle with their Latino heritage. The site is located within Yahoo’s “Shine” site, which boasts approximately 34 million unique visitors every month. “Shine” was launched in…
On June 2, 2012, Old Dominion University was the site of the Fourth Annual Hampton Roads Conference for Girls and Young Women. The event was sponsored by a joint effort from the Community Development Corporation and Old Dominion University. The purpose of the event is to encourage girls and young…
Marketing Maven Public relations, a PR firm located in Los Angeles, has just been given the #18 spot in the top 20 Largest Women-Owned Businesses. The list is compiled out of businesses in the North West Region of Los Angeles. Rankings were made by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal…
In the latest step of an impressive career, U.S. Air Force Col. Jeannie Leavitt has become the first female to be named as a Wing Commander in Air Force history. She will take command of the 4th Combat Fighter Wing located at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina.…
The gender imbalance that plagues the technology industry is being blamed on one simple principle: a lack of female role models. Today, as in years past, the top individuals identified within the technology industry continue to be men. One ongoing problem is that the majority of interest in this field…
According to a new study conducted by the Pew Economic Mobility Project, divorced women are doing better financially than are divorced men. And the trend seems to be continuously improving. This is a dramatic change from history which has always seen men coming out better financially than women. Why are…
Former real estate broker Farkhanda “Kandy” Tara Shah has pleaded not guilty in her real estate scam case. Before her arrest, Shah, 61, was both a real estate agent, as well as a licensed mortgage broker who owned K-Realty in Somerville. Both her real estate and mortgage licenses have since…
The Fox Business Network has decided to expand the role of one of their top anchors, Melissa Francis. Francis is being given her own show airing weeknights from 5-6 PM, Eastern Time. The show is called “MONEY with Melissa Francis” and will spotlight the top money stories of the day…
According to statistics provided by the United Nations, two-thirds of Middle-Eastern countries have more women attending their universities than men. This is encouraging news for the United Nations, which has proclaimed 2015 as the cutoff to eliminate the disparity of gender throughout all levels of education. However, this level of…
