Posts Tagged ‘Women in Business’
Female Entrepreneurs and Their Rising Roles in Business
There are still big equality hurdles when it comes to gender in the American workforce, but those disparities are slowly inching closer together. Just take a look at Silicon Valley—the number of women founding tech companies is still extremely low. In private companies, just 6.5 percent have a CEO who’s a woman, and only 1.3 percent boast…
Read MoreThe Difficult Path to Success for Millennial Women Entrepreneurs
Women entrepreneurs face many challenges when it comes to achieving success. Apart from the obstacles any entrepreneur must overcome, unfortunately, gender biases are still in place to a large extent. Add to this the skepticism towards millennials in general, it may seem that millennial women barely have a chance to make it big. However, this…
Read MoreHow One Mompreneur Used Creativity to Fuel Success
People often ask me what it’s like to run a business while being a mom to two young children. I started my company, The Jones Market, as a new mom, and the company has grown as my family has. People are often surprised when I tell them that there is a single principle that guides…
Read More3 Reasons Women Should Consider Freelancing in Today’s Market
Since I was young, I’ve had a personality trait that doesn’t work well with authority. Thankfully, I’ve discovered positive outlets like entrepreneurship, but it can be tricky to wrangle for those who work 9-to-5 jobs. In fact, this was a big reason I stepped off the engineering track in college. I discovered engineering wasn’t my…
Read MoreHow I Became a Mompreneur and Made My Dreams a Reality
As cliché as it sounds, everything really does happen for reason. Thinking back to two years ago, I enjoyed my job but an unexpected divorce thrust me into being a single mom of three kids, and doing it on $34K a year just wasn’t enough to make ends meet. To put it simply, I found…
Read More7 Rules for Female Entrepreneurs to Live By
It wasn’t so long ago when the Spice Girls exploded onto the top of the charts, chanting their slogans for world peace and guuuurl power. These days, women are increasingly entering the world of business for various reasons. Some women see entrepreneurship as the best way to have more time to spend with their kids…
Read More10 Reasons Being a Female Business Owner Rocks
More than simply being your own boss, female entrepreneurship rocks for some less-than-obvious reasons. If you’ve ever considered venturing out on your own, here are ten of the best reasons to start now. 1. The World is Your Office Thanks to the internet, entrepreneurs are no longer tied to a corner office or the confines…
Read MoreThe Power of Female Leadership: 3 Important Behaviors to Adopt
We’ve all read about the qualities it takes to become a great female leader: how to “lean in,” what language to use in order to show an attitude of cooperation, the importance of personal flexibility. In addition to some of these overt actions and the content of what we say, subliminal messages have an underlying presence. Sometimes…
Read MoreThe Growth of Women in Tech
Although only 20% of all tech startups across the world are founded by women, women are being hired at a faster rate than men in the world’s 8 leading tech firms: Ebay, Apple, Linkedin, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Facebook, and Twitter. And this isn’t just a few percent. Women are being hired at a rate 238%…
Read MoreThe Top 12 Cities for Female Entrepreneurs
This storymap identifies the top 12 cities around the world where female entrepreneurs are most likely to set up a small business and where the highest number of female entrepreneurs reside. Small business owners have traditionally been male, but this storymap highlights the cities where female owned small businesses are thriving. Author: Richard Madison is…
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