Finally. We all could use positive news about women business owners in the post-pandemic, pre-recession universe. Thankfully, it’s here.
“Women business owners have a positive business outlook… Most expect revenue growth over the next 12 months, and a majority feel equipped to weather a potential recession.” According to a new Bank of America report, 2023 Women & Minority Business Owner Spotlight.
Read More“This may be as big as the hype now and it may be underhyped in the longterm,” Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI, told Kara Swisher, journalist and podcast host, at the recent Pride Summit 2023 hosted by Lesbians Who Tech. “This is closer to a societal revolution, not a technical revolution.”
He spearheads the company launched in November 2022 with an estimated 1 billion monthly users and 100 million active users.
Read MoreIssue 193 — March 14, 2022
It’s progress to be sure that March 15 marks Equal Pay Day 2022. Women now earn 83% of what men earn for matched full time work.
Last year the annual recognition of when U.S. women had to work into 2021 before they earned what men earned what men did in just 12 months of 2020 occurred on March 24. The year before that, the day was March 31.
Read MoreThe more you know, the better you can do.
A spate of new research on shifts and changes in income, career, life outlook and more for women since the pandemic slowdown and ensuing Delta surge shows significant changes in who we are, and how we work in the world.
Read MoreTwo months into a cultural reckoning that reached a tipping point with the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police officers and the global protests that followed, companies, organizations, non-profits, institutions, universities and celebrities have made public mission statements of intention to address racial inequities.
An intensifying renewal and resetting of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts is in the works across the country—and the world. And rightly so. But are these DEI efforts working?
Read MoreYour story matters.
Take The Lead introduces the new initiative, Power To Change Stories, to highlight your personal story of specific experiences, strategies, insights and solutions to create change where you work and where you are.
At Take The Lead, we are committed to racial and gender parity as our mission. We recognize the importance of stories especially now during the pandemic of COVID-19 and the calls to action to affect ongoing racial injustice.
Read MoreIssue 106 — September 2, 2019 Are you one of the 46 percent of Americans who’ll barbecue over Labor Day weekend? Will it be ribs, hot dogs, burgers, or veggies? Or will you be one of the 25 percent who’ll be shopping? Google “Labor Day” and the majority of top hits involve Labor Day sales.
Read MoreIf it would freak out your grandma, just don’t post.
Donna Shea, author and social and emotional learning specialist, says “emotional posting” can be the downfall of a career and prevent you from getting hired in the first place.
Read MoreThis is your brain on exercise: bigger, stronger and full of more grey matter. While most of us know—and perhaps envy– other women in the workplace who bike or hike to work, sneak out to the gym at lunch or head to a spin class after work instead of happy hour, we may not know they are not only building muscle mass, but brain power.
Read MoreA big barrier to women’s leadership parity was overlooked in the recent brouhaha about Facebook and Apple covering employees’ insurance for egg freezing.
These companies are not, as headlines screamed “paying women to freeze eggs.”
Read MoreWomen in the age of AnneMarieSlaughterSherylSandbergMarissaMayer are drowning in a sea of unsolicited advice.
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