No Funding Because She Is A Woman – Can Women Entrepreneurs Change A Sexist System?
It was January 2017. A 26-year-old Nadia Genevieve Masri made her way up to the second floor office of a venture capital fund in San Francisco. She was there to ask for $500,000. Masri already had four startups under her belt, and she was raising her first round of VC funding for Perksy, a market research […]
Women Aren’t Given Management Positions At Equal Rates – Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg’s LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company this week released its fourth annual Women in the Workplace study. The report’s aim is to explore how companies are promoting and improving gender diversity. This year the study surveyed 279 companies that employ more than 13 million people about their leadership pipelines and HR practices. Sixty-four-thousand employees were also […]
Be Tougher Than It Looks And Life Won’t Just Happen
We’ve all been in a situation at work where the day is coming to an end as an important deadline for a project is rapidly approaching. The tension in your stomach is getting worse and worse. You’re rushing to finish when you suddenly get a call from your boss about another situation that needs to […]
Comparison Is Almost Impossible To Avoid If You’re A living But You Change The Narrative
Comparison is almost impossible to avoid if you’re a living, breathing human being. We’re bombarded with images of aspirational women from social media, marketing and television, which can make even the most secure, happy woman feel inadequate. During performance reviews, the organizations we work at often implicitly pit employee against employee to determine who gets raises, promotions and […]
Are We Attacking Women For Being Team Players?
A recent study found that women, more than men, tend to take on tasks that support collaborative efforts in the workplace, sometimes to the detriment of their ability to produce results more quickly on individual tasks. This is only the most recent of many studies showing gender-based behavioral differences in the workplace: for instance, women tend to […]
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