Womens Business

The UN isn't going to solve global poverty if no one understands what they're talking about.

Australia plans to spend AU$1.5 million in the next three years to support women entrepreneurs in 20 Indian Ocean Rim Association countries to boost their export competitiveness. This was announced by Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop in Perth, while addressing the delegates of the second Indian Ocean Dialogue.

Over the past two years, I’ve covered a whole lot of mostly negatively news about the role of gender in Silicon Valley. But there is one positive story I hear over and over again from many of Silicon Valley’s most powerful women about Bill Campbell, Intuit’s former CEO: Campbell, nearly a dozen female tech executives have told me, was a mentor and advocate who not only established female-friendly policies in an industry that’s often hostile to them, but opened many of the doors that helped them succeed.

Everything isn't awesome for women in STEM, so LEGO is stepping up.

In an effort to further the advancement of women leaders worldwide, Harvard Business School (HBS) has launched the Gender Initiative to support research, teaching, and knowledge dissemination that promotes gender equity in business and society. The new Initiative will be headed by Robin Ely, the School’s Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community.

10 things girls must not hear from their parents.

Happiness is a tricky subject; its meaning varies from person to person. There is fleeting happiness: the happiness we feel when we get something we want. Then there is a richer form of happiness that comes from doing something meaningful, like [...]

n the most interesting research I have come across comparing male and female leaders, the consulting firm Zenger Folkman studied 16,000 of them – two-thirds men, one-third women – as well as their managers, subordinates and peers. Women rated better than men on 12 out of 16 competencies. These included “takes initiative,” “drives for results” and “stretches for results,” all traditional measures of effective leadership. They also included every one of the more human competencies — “practices self-development,” “develops others,” “motivates and inspires others,” “builds relationships” and “collaboration and teamwork.”

“The hashtag has become one more way to show emphasis,” says the linguist Deborah Tannen, a professor at Georgetown, who adds that this has “nothing to do with its original use to join a public conversation on a given topic.” According to Tannen, women’s preference for expressive hashtags is “similar to their using exclamation points, caps, and repetition of letters to show emphasis, and to the fact that women’s spoken intonation patterns tend to vary more than men’s.”