Thousands of available tech apps address the needs of mostly white, male Silicon Valley tech workers. None were addressing the needs of deskless workers who are field officers, delivery persons, remote workers in construction, healthcare, transportation, hospitality, manufacturing and

While Take The Lead has a mission of gender parity across all sectors in leadership of 2025, the rest of the world may be on a much slower time frame. Implementing diversity and inclusion efforts to make a fair and balances workforce that represents the population by gender, race, age

In her first job in 1990 after graduating from a small Iowa college, Rae Shanahan worked in human resources for Maytag in Newton, Iowa. At the manufacturing company, she says all the women employees were told they had to wear a skirt every day to work. Pants were not an option. Now Ch

The summer is approaching and if you are extremely lucky, your company or organization will have summer hours built in so you can take advantage of a slower schedule. If you are leading the organization, perhaps you can acknowledge the toll stress takes on team  members and you can be

In the NBC-TV show, “Rise,” the character Vanessa Suarez is a single mother who works in a diner and is consistently sexually harassed, poked, touched and demeaned by the owner, her boss. She retaliates by physically lashing out at him and is fired. Unfortunately this is also real lif

“The power is with us.” Such was the welcome from Lauren Underwood, a registered nurse running for Congress in Illinois’ 14th district, to the crowd of more than 1,600 for the 17th Annual Ultimate Women’s’ Power Lunch in Chicago hosted by Illinois Democratic Congresswoman Jan Schakows

Office gossip can be amusing or informative. Office gossip can also be fatal to your career. When it’s your boss doing all the secret leaking, it can be toxic to the workplace. I know enough from decades of working in office cultures from small to medium to enormous that if you have a

Where can you find women business owners producing butter cookies, children’s clothing, hair care products, cold-pressed juice, booties for dogs, soap, fruit-flavored brandy and much more all in one center? You can find these producers and entrepreneurs at Make City, Chicago, an initi

In the wild west of the future economy, some say bitcoin is the gold of the future. It is cryptocurrency in the blockchain ecosystem that was recently traded at a high of $11,599, according to CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index. Trading volume was recently at $7.28 billion in a 24-h

 “In a century from now, in a history text book, I want 2018 to be known for the year that teenagers rocked the nation,” writes “Kyra,” a student on Twitter with 71,000 followers. Particularly in the past few weeks, young women are expressing their power to inf