Five years ago Carole Rains, 60, didn’t know what an emu was. And now she is in the online retail business of selling Emu Joy, the brand name she created for dozens of consumer skincare and pain relief products based on emu oil. For the record, an emu is the flightless bird that looks like an unattractive ostrich.
Read MoreI remember how taken I was when I read science historian James Gleick’s 1995 article “Just a Damn Minute.”
Read MoreUsed to be that you could physically throw out old files—stacks of papers, publications and manila folders—to stay on top of your workplace mess.
Read MoreMore women own businesses now than at any time in the past. According to the 2018 State of Women-Owned Businesses, a report from American Express, the number of women-owned businesses grew by 58 percent from 2007 to 2018.
Read MoreChances are we all have them. People we work with, for and interact with professionally who snap, belittle, demean or shoot microaggressions your way or the way of whomever they choose.
Read MoreValerie Jarrett says when she set off for her first year at Stanford University in 1974, her mother gave her a warning.
Read MoreI don’t know any woman in business who fakes it until she makes it.
Read MoreAs a 16-year-old mother dropping out of ninth grade in Seattle, Anne Peterson would have said where she is now, 34 years later, would be highly unlikely.
Read MoreYoda is not real.
No one person will magically be your mentor who will show you the path to success for your entire professional life.
Read MoreCan’t touch this.
The recent uproar surrounding former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential hopeful whose spokesperson Bill Russo rebuked allegations about “supposedly crossing a line between affectionate or supportive behavior with women to something inappropriate,” calls to the forefront the need to make those lines very clear.
Read MoreIt’s both good and bad news. Women still have a ways to go before they reach equal pay for equal work, but this year shows a small improvement of 1 percent over last year. Equal Pay Day on April 2 marks
Read MoreYou know those “snowplow parents” — the ones who clear away impediments that might hamper their children’s success? They’re getting their comeuppance in the wake of the recently discovered college entrance cheating scheme that has snared celebrities like Felicity Hoffman and Lori Loughlin and revealed the corrupt ways parents of means can push aside those inconvenient test scores or other qualifications to get their kids into college.
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