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Read More »Investing In Women–And Not Just In The Abstract
Companies with more women on boards and in leadership positions outperform, financially and otherwise, companies with fewer women--and yet, this information doesn't typically factor into investment decisions. Now, some firms are giving investors the option to invest in companies that promote gender equality.
Read More »Why Women Are Better Freelancers
One longtime female freelancer says women are better suited for the Gig Economy. Here are three reasons why. "Am I to infer from your article that only women are contractors
Read More »New Incubator Focuses on Female Founders
Three New York City businesswomen are launching their own incubator to focus on start-ups with a female founder and a mobile product or service. Tech incubators, such as Y Combinator and TechStars, graduate astonishingly low rates of woman-run companies. Instead of complaining about the gender gap, three New York City businesswomen are launching their own incubator
Read More »Networking Tricks for Women Owners
Want to grow your business? Do what men do.
Read More »Why Women Want to be Entrepreneurs
Like Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, women are driven to do business better and more flexibly, and make work better for everyone. Every businesswoman who acquires any public profile has her family life raked over: How does she do it?
Read More »Nice Girls Brag: Here’s How
Women are told that its not ladylike to brag. But done right, it can be one of the most effective ways to grow your business and your influence
Read More »Council Member Colleen Molter Appears at Inc. Women’s Summit
Molter imparts lessons on how she survived "the brink of disaster." Colleen Molter shared the stage with other women entrepreneurs at Inc.
Read More »How to Get Rich on Government Work
For many women business owners, the shortest route to a a million in revenues runs through Washington. All business owners, especially women owners, know that getting to a million in revenues is a tough hurdle
Read More »Video: Breast cancer surgeries: Are they always necessary?
A new study finds that nearly one-in-four women with breast cancer have more than one surgery. Dr. Rache Simmons, chief of breast surgery at NY-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, talks to Gayle King and Erica Hill about how the number of surgeries could be reduced.
Read More »Video: Lumpectomy surgeries lead to repeats
The journal of the American Medical Association found that nearly a quarter of the women who got a lumpectomy went back for more surgery. But as Elaine Quijano reports, a study found those extra procedures may be unnecessary.
Read More »If It Looks Like a Compliment, and Sounds Like a Compliment…Is It Really a Compliment?
Two weeks ago I was at Science Online 2012, the annual conference for science bloggers and writers in Raleigh, NC. While there, I attended the session on Blogging Science While Female (a more detailed summary of the session can be found here ). At the session, many of the women in the room expressed discouragement at how many comments they have received that, while seemingly complimentary, somehow still felt wrong
Read More »15 Women to Watch in Tech
Collectively, they're tackling everything from healthcare and online video to Web security and e-commerce. And that's only the beginning
Read More »The Face of Success, Part 3: Women and Venture Capital
Silicon Valley appears to be the world's greatest meritocracy. Unless you're a female entrepreneur trying to raise venture funding. In my last two articles, I discussed why, based on my research on immigrant entrepreneurs, I believed that Silicon Valley was the world’s greatest meritocracy.
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