When we weaken the power of one woman, we weaken the power of all women. When we weaken the power of women in workplaces that already have way too few women, we contribute to further reducing the number of successful women and we end up with only one woman survivor at the top – the [...]
Posts Tagged "hillary clinton"
Anne-Marie Slaughter Inspires Audience At WIE Symposium In NY
September 25, 2012 – 6:00 am
Slaughter commended having ambition and drive, but cautioned women to be realistic about the fact that children take time to raise and that the preferences women have as they grow older will change over time. By Grace Nasri (Managing Editor, FindTheBest) The WIE Symposium in New York featured a range of high-profile speakers including Prof. [...]
Words Of Wisdom From Meg Whitman, Hewlett-Packard CEO
April 19, 2012 – 7:00 am
Check out the inspiring video series with Meg Whitman on Makers! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) In the way that Hillary Clinton‘s popularity rating has increased with time (and the one-week Internet meme sensation Texts from Hillary), perhaps Meg Whitman‘s star is still rising. Best known as eBay’s veteran CEO – she [...]
Hillary Clinton: Increasing Women’s Participation Dramatically Impacts Competitiveness And Growth Of Our Economies
December 14, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Shelly Kapoor Collins (CEO, Enscient Corporation) “To achieve the economic expansion, we all seek we need to unlock a vital source of growth that can power our economies in the decades to come… By increasing women’s participation in the economy and enhancing their efficiency and productivity, we can have a dramatic impact on the [...]
Joanne Wilson: An Angel Who Bets On Women-Led Companies
December 13, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Suzanne Axtell (Technology Evangelist, O’Reilly) Blogger, mother, foodie, and hardcore New Yorker Joanne Wilson (@TheGothamGal) is one of a few female angel investors. Her approach to investing is unabashedly women-centric. As she explains in the following interview, she’s a believer in the power of the startup ecosystem to influence the economies of New York [...]
Live TEDWomen Coverage: Hillary on Tech Innovation
December 8, 2010 – 1:26 pm
The TEDWomen audience in DC received a surprise guest this afternoon in the form of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She championed support for innovation in the form of TechWomen, which provides professional mentorship by pairing technologists around the world with American women. Skills development and networking are the dual focuses of the program [...]
