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Don’t Miss Astia’s Global Entrepreneur Program
Doing it Right is an unparalleled resource for success — a transformative program designed by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs who want to become dominant players in their sectors. And last year, it expanded across the world. The format? A comprehensive 6-day workshop, 2 month program of personalized coaching from premier experts and the [...]
Womenable E3 News 3rd Quarter 2009
"Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging." ~ The Honorable Sonia Sotomayor, who was recently named to the U.S. Supreme Court. She is the first Supreme Court justice of Hispanic heritage. September 15 - October 15 is Hispanic [...]
Verité Works: reports and reflections on the global workplace
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National Women’s Business Council August 2009 Issue
The National Women's Business Council released a new report this month featuring the major outcomes and recommendations from its April town hall meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. The seventh in a series of town hall meetings across the country, the discussions at the Atlanta event tackled timely themes like the implications of the economic downturn [...]
Open Letter on WeCareHealth to Hazel Henderson
By Lavinia Weissman, Founder of WorkEcology August 19, 2009 Hazel, in 2007, you called me to tell me you would be joining others in Brussels to launch a new economic thought leadership called Beyond GDP. As you know, I personally took this to heart because it is tied so much to the work of my thought leadership I describe as WorkEcology. I [...]
Why sexism is behind the attacks on the FDIC chief
Loaded for Bair Why sexism is behind the attacks on the FDIC chief. By Maureen Tkacik Posted Sunday, August 2, 2009 - 9:25pm I recently heard that Vogue was desperate to find women prominent in the colossal effort to fix the financial crisis to profile. Um, hello! FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair is arguably the most powerful woman in the world [...]
WHEN WOMEN COUNT
By Elizabeth Wallace On the other side of the globe, Hazel Henderson was also looking at an economic system blind to billions of women workers. A self-described “housewife” in New York City, Henderson found a new calling after leading a ... read more...
New Council Report Encourages Expanded Entrepreneurial Training for Women
Posted July 31, 2009 A new report by the National Women's Business Council (NWBC) analyzes successful practices of entrepreneurship programs serving women students and provides resources for community colleges, entrepreneurship centers, and non-credit programs looking to expand their outreach and service to current and future women [...]
Women and girls have been discriminated against for too long in a twisted interpretation of the word of God.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 Losing My Religion for Equality, by Jimmy Carter After several years of trying to bring about change from the inside, Jimmy Carter has announced that he's severing his ties with the Southern Baptist church over its treatment of women. As I post this news, I find myself thinking of what Greenpeace activists had to say [...]
World Pulse Launches Voices of Our Future
Women citizen journalists harness Web 2.0 to broadcast from remote regions across the globe. With great pride, we introduce to you World Pulse's very first Voices of Our Future--a new network of 30 grassroots women correspondents reporting live from 21 nations. Selected from over 500 applicants from 90 countries, these are women speaking out on [...]
