A new generation of “fun, fearless females” armed with smartphones is boosting Cosmopolitan’s website traffic and driving a digital makeover for the US women’s magazine best known for steamy sex tips. learn more in ft Cosmopolitan aims for mobile millennials…
The first, known as descriptive stereotype, ascribes certain characteristics to women. They are caring, warm, deferential, emotional, sensitive, and so on–traits consistently used to describe women for decades learn more in fastcompany Here Is a Growing Trend. We are all…
A recent survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Strategy& found that in eight out of the last 10 years, there have been more women heading into the corner office than stepping out. Despite that encouraging trend, female CEOs comprised only 3% of…
Women are more confident, more educated and financially better prepared to make a car buying decision than before but women are treated differently at car dealerships learn more in bizcommunity Women account for more than 50% of new car purchases…
Give girls opportunities and you also see them developing into kickass women who make the world a better place. We need a bigger pool of smart, empowered women to solve problems. learn more in grist How women will save the…
In the next decade it is estimated that close to 1 billion women, mostly in the developing world, are going to enter the formal economy and become new economic contributors, as full-time workers and micro-entrepreneurs. The growing pace of urban…
Founded in 2003 by entrepreneur and journalist Steven Brill, New York City-based Clear (then called FlyClear) had won the hearts of 200,000 paying members, contracts with at least a dozen airports and $75 million in venture capital before the economic…
A May 2012 Willamette Week story about the lack of women in the Portland, tech scene referenced Rowley’s plan to hold a Python programming workshop for new female programmers. More than 100 would-be coders expressed interest. It was the impetus…
“I wanted to create a digital work model that disintermediates the middlemen that take up all the margins.” learn more in entrepreneur
Fortune 500 companies with at least three female directors have seen their return on invested capital increase by at least 66%, return on sales increase by 42%, and return on equity increase by at least 53%. In a study by…
