At a time of deep uncertainty when it is risky to board an airplane or even shake hands, international best-selling author Michele Wucker wants you to understand that what you risk, who you are and how you behave personally and professionally around risk are inextricably linked.
Read MoreYou’re never too young to start thinking about your health as an older woman.
Alicia Jackson, CEO, and Liya Brook, are co-founders of Evernow, a company focused on helping women live longer, healthier lives coping with menopause with a prescription-based model with telemedicine access to doctors and treatments 24/7.
Read MoreThe pandemic has been particularly difficult for women with children in the workforce. Over more than a year of economic uncertainty, remote work, remote learning for children and largely unavailable childcare, women have toasted two Mothers Days—2020 and 2021.
It is time to celebrate the mothers among us who are facing, meeting and managing these challenges.
Read MoreHello friends, today I have a special ask of you.
As you may know, over five million women’s careers have been disrupted by COVID-19.
To get back on track, we must #PutWomenAtTheCenter of the recovery.
Read MoreLast year it felt like everyone who could began working from home. The COVID-19 pandemic sped up already common work-from-home trends, and many parents found themselves suddenly balancing it all.
If you’re still working from home, there are things you can keep in mind to balance your work life and make sure that your baby or toddler is thriving. As a mother myself, I know firsthand how hard it can be to juggle work responsibilities with motherhood.
Read MoreIssue 166 — April 19, 2021
Did you ever have an idea and after some months it actually happens? Were you surprised? Excited? So sure it would come to pass that you weren’t worried about it even when it seemed like it would be impossible to achieve for whatever reason? All of the above?
Read MoreBeing the poster child for a movement or a cause is usually a metaphor, meaning that you embody the mission of an organization. For award-winning author, educator and disabilities justice advocate Emily Rapp Black, it was literally who she was.
In 1980, at six years old Black was chosen as the poster child for the March of Dimes, because a congenital birth defect resulted in her left leg being amputated. Her latest book, the critically acclaimed, Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg, explores Black’s ideological connection with the iconic Mexican artist who suffered from polio as a child, and later a leg amputation, using a prosthetic limb.
Read MoreIt’s far past time to walk the talk.
While many business conversations feature diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at companies in the U.S. and globally, putting these ideals into practice has been elusive, if not mismanaged and ignored.
Read MoreIssue 165 — April 5, 2021
“And in a world where everyone strives to act, think and look the same — being different is truly something to be proud of. That’s why I’m very proud to be autistic.” – Greta Thunberg.
Read MoreThis is the better life her parents imagined, and it is of her creation.
Ahyoung Kim Stobar, the daughter of an opera singer mother and a nationally renowned professor, TV and radio show host father in Korea, came to the United States from Korea in 1983 as a nine-year-old with her two brothers and parents.
Read MoreLike so many great ideas, this one started in the ladies room.
Claire Wasserman, the founder of Ladies Get Paid, a global community that champions the professional and financial advancement of women, had retreated to the restroom at a festival party in Cannes, France. She was there for the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, as she was working as a producer to promote a nominated short film, “Snovi.”
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