Monday, August 30, 2004

ChangeThis.com Manifesto // Please vote, thanks!

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I need your vote and it's only two mouse clicks away. Read this and vote "YES" -- thanks! ChangeThis :: Global Guru. Shak...
Saturday, August 28, 2004

Frustration In Corporate World Compels Women to Launch New Businesses

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In Advancing Women Want to know the reason behind this massive exodus? • The primary reason that women are launching new businesses i...
Monday, August 23, 2004

Why Women Are Leaving Corporate America in Droves

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In WomenOf.com Here's what author and president of Big Fish Marketing, Inc. Robin Fisher Roffer has to say: • There’s a brain dra...
Friday, August 06, 2004

The Opt-Out Revolution

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In The New York Times (October) Laurel here ... I never read the NYT article, I only found the following letter, from Ms. Shepard, in res...
Tuesday, August 03, 2004

"I was a suit -- nails and all -- I was totally corporate. Now I walk around in slippers ... it's fun!"

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In the HeraldNet. GRANITE FALLS -- While Vicki Urbanick was looking through a mail-order catalog at animal-shaped craft items, inspiratio...
Monday, August 02, 2004

Yeah! -- National Association for the Self-Employed Gets It! Women now have their own site.

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In National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) -- press release. The new site is part of the NASE Women Entrepreneurship Initiative...

Women Are Tired of Taking the Back Seat to Their Biker Boyfriends and Husbands!

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In Chicago Tribune and Journal Sentinel. [Laurel here ... I'm lovin it!] A couple of snapshots from article but the bottom line is t...
Sunday, August 01, 2004

A Woman's World

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In Santa Cruz Sentinel online edition. The Sentinel asked five prominent businesswomen how, or if, they balanced their work with their ho...
Friday, July 30, 2004

Women finding their way. Doing their passion.

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In Fast Company. Readers of Fast Company magazine and members of Women in Technology International gathered to explore some of the issues...
Thursday, July 29, 2004

Founding Editor of Fast Company, Alan M. Webber, Gets It: Women Are Leaving BIG Companies In Droves

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"Firms will pay when workers make escape." • According to a recent study by Spherion, a Florida-based recruiting and outsourci...

Enabling women to realize their maximum potential all over the world, including Zimbabwe and ...

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giving them a legitimate place in society. From Zimbabwe to America, the problems concerning the advancement of women remain the same. T...
Monday, July 26, 2004

Clearly, a gender wage gap exists.

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Employers must close gender wage gap -- or pay dearly. The most startling statements are as follows: • "Employer groups argue th...
Sunday, July 25, 2004

“To be an entrepreneur, you have to have a lot of guts."

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Energy and persistence unite entrepreneurs. A couple of interesting clips from the article published by Democrat & Chronicle: • C...
Saturday, July 24, 2004

Maverick trades in Japan’s aging business model and escapes Corporate Japan

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Quotes from a Japanese woman entrepreneur: ... “I think my family trained me to be an entrepreneur.  Dad told me to never join a big com...
Thursday, July 22, 2004

Corporations have to begin thinking more like entrepreneurs.

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A New Prescription for Transforming the Corporation. Commentary by Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D. July 22, 2004 A very important paragra...

More than 50 percent of the U.S. population is female ...

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as referenced in the The Global Entrepreneuriship Monitor, a research consortium that assesses national entrepreneurial activity for its par...
Tuesday, July 20, 2004

Wage gap contributing to women-owned business, entrepreneur says

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Women-owned businesses are growing in part because of the continued wage gap between men and women, The Entrepreneur's Source in Des Per...
Monday, July 19, 2004

Martha: Helping Women Escape From ...

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low-income and on to become entrepreneurs! Yes, you heard it here first. Martha Stewart has long been renowned for teaching women the ...

Watch out Corporate America: Women Entrepreneurs Are More Numerous and Powerful Than Ever ...

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and they are becoming prized swing voters in the 2004 election. I'll highlight just a couple of salient points made in the article: ...

Women, workplace, Dark Ages

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A study concludes that modern business is stuck in the Dark Ages when it comes to accommodating women in the work force, and it makes severa...