GWIB works to strengthen the position of women in business, both internally as well as serving as a connection point to external opportunities.
05/29/2015
Alexa von Tobel of LearnVest: No, Really, What’s Your Weakness? The chief executive of the financial planning company LearnVest says that part of developing management skills is figuring out one’s own weaknesses. (With video.)
05/04/2015
EllesVMH
LVMH, Boosting Women At LVMH, women were seriously underrepresented in senior positions. In 2009, the group launched ‘EllesVMH’ to boost women leaders. Is it working?
02/18/2015
Nordstrom appoints female tech leader Shellye Archambeau to its board of directors - Bizwomen Nordstrom has added MetricStream CEO Shellye L. Archambeau to its board of directors, the company announced Friday.
02/05/2015
Always #LikeAGirl Using as an insult is a hard knock against any adolescent girl. And since the rest of puberty's really no picnic either, it's easy to see what a h...
01/27/2015
Helena Morrissey, Aiming at Britain's Glass Ceilings, Gets Results The London financial executive, founder of the 30% Club, has focused on the chairmen of Britain’s top companies in her campaign to increase women’s representation on boards.
12/08/2014
Ad of the Day: Lego Finally Makes an Inspiring, Empowering TV Ad for Girls It's not like Lego hasn't done great ads with girls over the years. In fact, it was ahead of its time. (Everyone has seen famous "What it is is beautiful" print ad from 1981 by now.) But lately, the brand has let toy rivals like GoldieBlox lead the way in messages of girl empowerment.
12/04/2014
"Generic approaches to supporting women as they rise through large companies are likely to be ineffective or even counter-productive. Adapting a policy that seems to work in the US isn’t necessarily going to be helpful in Mexico, Turkey, Russia or China."
Business cannot afford to obstruct women - FT.com Momentum equals mass times velocity. Since the beginning of this century, legislation, lobbying and simple good business sense have led to an increase in the number of women in executive and board positions around the world. For instance, less than
11/29/2014
Fifteen-year-old Tavi Gevinson had a hard time finding strong female, teenage role models — so she built a space where they could find each other. At TEDxTeen, she illustrates how the conversations on sites like Rookie, her wildly popular web magazine for and by teen girls, are putting a new, unapologetically uncertain and richly complex face on modern feminism.
11/21/2014
Graduate Women in Brunch hosted by Deloitte - thanks to VP of Career Ashley Clausnitzer for organizing!
11/14/2014
Interesting talk about the roles marketing and gender stereotypes play in career decisions.
When Women Stopped Coding For decades, the share of women majoring in computer science was rising. Then, in the 1980s, something changed.
10/29/2014
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/239126
This Woman Is Waging a Quiet War on Tech's Gender Gap Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani is partnering with big Silicon Valley companies to teach young girls to love computer science.
10/08/2014