It’s been about a year since the start of the #metoo movement, and unless you’ve been asleep in a cave, you’ve probably been aware that things are changing quite dramatically all around us. Patterns of bad behavior that have been tolerated for years are finally being loudly challenged. Women are speaking out in all corners […]
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Women business owners can achieve so much more when we support each other. If you’re a woman entrepreneur, check out these 15 websites for women business owners (besides AllBusiness’s Women In Business section, of course!) that can help you start or grow your business: American Business Women’s Association http://www.abwa.orgThis organization for business and professional women
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Over 80% of the clothes women aren’t wearing is worth half a trillion dollars in the US according to Finery founder and CEO Whitney Casey. Finery, which was just listed in CNBC’s Upstart 100 list of promising young startups, keeps track of all your clothing purchases and creates a digital wardrobe and then helps style
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Small businesses are making good strides in hiring more women. However, a new Pew Research Center study finds that women still believe business owners should pay more and offer better benefits. Women and Leadership Pew surveyed a nationally representative group of 4,587 adults in the United States, between June 19 and July 2, 2018, with support
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Last week on Small Business Trends, I shared six organizations that are helping U.S. women and girls improve their business and financial skills so they can get jobs and start businesses. Your dollars can make even more of an impact in developing nations, where women are often restricted from education and other opportunities. Here are
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Women small business owners in the United States have come a long way, as I wrote in a recent post on Small Business Trends. However, in some underserved communities, there’s still a long way to go for women to achieve economic independence, financial stability or even employment. As a successful entrepreneur, how can you help?
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22. That’s the number I want you to focus on today. It’s the number of Top 10 hits by Taylor Swift (Ironically, it’s also the title of one of those Top 10 hits). It’s the length of a cricket pitch if you’re measuring in yards. It’s the name of a 202-mile Interstate that runs
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Facebook has been exploited in the past for discriminatory ad targeting, specifically in the housing market. Now the Communications Workers of America and the ACLU are alleging that some employers used the platform to discriminate against women. The parties filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Facebook and 10 employers alleging
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Enough already. I’ve written about sexism in the workplace, and I thought the situation might be improving—how wrong I was. A recent study of women sheds new light on the sexism that women face at work, and it’s even sadder for women in sales. It’s time for sexism to stop. Would you recognize sexism when
The other day, I read an article that blew me away. Writing in Forbes, entrepreneur Deborah Sweeney reminds us that until 1988, women entrepreneurs could not get business loans without a male relative as a cosigner. It didn’t matter if the male relative was even involved in the business, or if he was under 18;
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