It’s not a secret that women are finally catching up to their male counterparts in the business world. Recently, stories about (and from) high-powered business women Sheryl Sandberg, Annemarie Slaughter, and Marissa Meyer have once again brought working women into the public eye, but are they really representing a national trend? According to this infographic, [...]
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While the battle of sexes has dropped quite a bit in recent years, that doesn’t mean that women have it any easier when trying to start up their own business. In fact, many women believe there is more pressure on them when beginning a business - pressure to be taken seriously, to make the right [...]
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Hmmm . Sylvia Ann Hewlett posts Why Women Are the Biggest Emerging Market on the Harvard Business Review site today. She has some convincing statistics: Women leaders are the new power behind the global economy, proclaims Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu‘s announcement of its second annual webcast celebrating International Women’s Day. In developing nations, women’s earned income [...]
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Women will become, in the next few months, the majority of the American workforce, passing the 50% threshold, according to The Economist‘s Dec. 30, 2009 issue. Here are a few items from the article highlighting this accomplishment, and pointing out the challenges. High points: Women run many of the world’s great companies, e.g. PepsiCo in [...]
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Here’s a really interesting, and still timely, startup pitch competition for the half of the world that’s eligible. The Women 2.0 Startup Competition happens this coming spring. You still have until early April to get the business plan done, and a couple of weeks past that for the 7″x7″ summary on a napkin and the [...]
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Here’s an interesting upturn even during a downturn. Amid all the bad news on investment banking, Goldman Sachs has a special program to train women in entrepreneurship in developing markets. The World Bank has a $100 million program for commercial credit to women. This was in a Dec. 26 report in The New York Times: [...]
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A few days ago the Wall Street Journal published an article about the results from a survey at a Microsoft Small Business event called Vision to Venture conference. The survey at this event found that 61% of women who own small businesses do no online marketing and 40% do not have a website. I read [...]
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