First of all, her title is worthy of envy. Rebecca Bear is Director of Experiences at REI, the outdoors outfitter. And her name is apropos as well for someone who spends a far amount of time hiking and perhaps encountering or avoiding bears. Working at REI for a dozen years, Bear has

“The Voice” has blind auditions for singers who aspire to be the next national singing sensation. So why not recruit anonymously in tech and let the talent be the deciding factor before an interview? So gender is not a factor? This is the mission for Gloat (formerly Workey), a tech re

Esther Kestenbaum, CEO of DayOne Baby, envisions a world “where all workplaces and public spaces have accommodations for lactating mothers.” A mother and grandmother, Kestenbaum says DayOne Baby offers portable mothers’ rooms workplace services, education, breast pump rentals, classes

On some things, Father did not know best. Sabrina Parsons’ father, Tim Berry, founded Palo Alto Software in 1987, when she was in middle school. Now she is CEO of the company and has been since 2007. Parsons has been making changes her father never dreamed to make. After graduating fr

Women in California –and around the country—face obstacles of bias, wage gaps and a lack of infrastructure when they are raising families, caring for aging family members and trying to advance in their careers. But there is a path to a fair future. These are the findings of the

An undergraduate degree in zoology from University of Washington, a masters in physical therapy from the University of California and a PhD from Utica College, all helped inform her career. But motherhood ultimately informed Glenna Rice’s success. The owner of Access Physical Therapy

Sara Mauskopf, CEO and co-founder of Winnie, an app that has been called a Yelp for parents, knows all about the benefits offered by tech giants in Silicon Valley. She worked as a consumer technology and product management at Twitter, YouTube, Google and Postmates. But when she and he

Michelle Kennedy’s newest baby is just six months old. She calls her youngest baby “Peanut,” the same nickname for her three-year-old son, Finlay. Peanut is an app that connects like-minded mothers for social outings and resources, and as CEO and co-founder of Peanut, the

“Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun” was the longest running advertising campaign for Doublemint chewing gum, and Carolyn Morgan may agree it is a slogan that can — at least much of the time– be applied to her own life. Morgan, president of Precision Effect, a healthcar

Even with the addition of the latest Capitol Hill ping pong on paid parental leave policies during the recent Workforce Week, child care remains the single greatest concern for working mothers—and fathers. A new “Better Life Lab report examines how the length of paid family leave impa