VC Vets Set To Become Most High-Powered Female Duo In Venture Capital
by VITAMIN W Staff Call them financial powerlifters. Veterans of venture capital, Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad, just announced the creation of their new firm, Aspect Ventures. Fonstad and Gouw...
View ArticleCoverGirl Launches #GirlsCan Campaign
“Girls Can” do anything, proudly proclaims a new CoverGirl campaign. While some are skeptical of women and girls’ empowerment as a marketing strategy, at least companies are trying. Some girls do like...
View ArticleWATCH: ‘The Revolution Will Be Digitized’ Black Girls Code
By VITAMIN W Staff Black girls can change the world, thanks to Kimberly Bryant! The badass tech entrepreneur and White House Champion of Change honoree has been arming young girls with the tools to...
View ArticleThe Workplace Then Vs. Now: New Data Shows Millennial Women Leading The Charge
By VITAMIN W Staff We’ve come a long way since 1980. Gender equality in the workplace is the best it’s ever been, but is still largely unequal. New data shows that women are often assigned projects...
View ArticleThis Director Is Taking Action To Solve The Role Model Problem And So Can You
By Amy-Willard Cross A little while ago, Julia Lukasik thought there should be more women directors. She ended up buying the company she worked for so she could hold the camera. A few years later, she...
View ArticleStates With More Women in Office Do Better (INFOGRAPHIC)
By Padmini Parthasarathy It’s a known fact that women don’t fare too well in federal government. Only 18.5% of our Congressional representatives are women. But there isn’t as much conversation about...
View ArticleThe Pipeline Problem: Where Do The Women Go?
By Padmini Parthasarathy Doubts about women’s capability and intellect died with the transistor radio. Women now scoop up more than half of all college degrees. The majority of doctoral degrees...
View ArticleWear it, Hack it, Map it: Great Tech by Girls
So many people are trying to get more girls into tech. Some New York University students have come up with some very good solutions. These graduate students at New York University’s ITP have each...
View ArticleSteps Tech Companies Can Take to Increase Gender Diversity
By Ann Lehman, JD Suddenly, we’re talking about diversity in the tech industry. Google released its diversity data recently, as did Facebook, Yahoo and LinkedIn. So have more established companies...
View ArticleStudy Finds Women Who Ask for Flextime Are Not Well Liked
By Padmini Parthasarathy Bad news. Women who ask for the same work-life balance concessions that men do are not very well received. Assistant professor of sociology at Furman University Christin...
View ArticleHow to Win a Business Competition
Business competitions can be great ways to get capital, exposure, or a chance to pitch investors. But how can you win one? Well, the answer is the same way you’d win anything–by preparing and...
View ArticleDo Women Not Know How To Take Compliments? (VIDEO)
Amy Schumer can really nail it. This comedian did a bit about compliments that went viral a couple of weeks ago. Sure, it was super funny—but spread because it hit a nerve bigger than the funny...
View ArticleTory Burch On Passing The Economic Torch: ‘Women Should Be As Ambitious As Men’
Her Agenda is a digital media platform bridging the gap between ambition and achievement for millennial women. News, content, and a database of events and resources to help you get started or get to...
View ArticleDouble Digit Academy Launches To Give More Women Access To VC Funding
A business without capital is like a car without gas. It can’t go very far or very fast. And venture capital is high performance gas. Unfortunately, less than 5 percent of VC money goes to women...
View ArticleNo Ceilings: Hillary Clinton Launches New Project To Empower Women
Change continues to be on the horizon as Hillary Clinton vows to continue the work she set out to do almost 20 years ago–making sure women and girls are leading the way. On Friday Nov. 1, Clinton...
View ArticleHow Women’s Organizations Are Pushing Forward In 2014
Women’s organizations are at the forefront of executing strategies to fix some of America’s flaws. From pushing through legislation, to changing corporate practices to increasing access to health...
View ArticleWomen Hedge Fund Managers Outperform Men, Report Finds
Her Agenda is a digital media platform bridging the gap between ambition and achievement for millennial women. News, content, and a database of events and resources to help you get started or get to...
View ArticleVC Vets Set To Become Most High-Powered Female Duo In Venture Capital
by VITAMIN W Staff Call them financial powerlifters. Veterans of venture capital, Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad, just announced the creation of their new firm, Aspect Ventures. Fonstad and Gouw...
View ArticleCoverGirl Launches #GirlsCan Campaign
Her Agenda is a digital media platform bridging the gap between ambition and achievement for millennial women. News, content, and a database of events and resources to help you get started or get to...
View ArticleWATCH: ‘The Revolution Will Be Digitized’ Black Girls Code
By VITAMIN W Staff Black girls can change the world, thanks to Kimberly Bryant! The badass tech entrepreneur and White House Champion of Change honoree has been arming young girls with the tools to...
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