Georgetown's Graduate Women in Business

05/29/2015

The chief executive of the financial planning company LearnVest says that part of developing management skills is figuring out one’s own weaknesses. (With video.)

05/04/2015

EllesVMH

At LVMH, women were seriously underrepresented in senior positions. In 2009, the group launched ‘EllesVMH’ to boost women leaders. Is it working?

02/18/2015

Nordstrom has added MetricStream CEO Shellye L. Archambeau to its board of directors, the company announced Friday.

02/05/2015

Using as an insult is a hard knock against any adolescent girl. And since the rest of puberty's really no picnic either, it's easy to see what a h...

01/27/2015

The London financial executive, founder of the 30% Club, has focused on the chairmen of Britain’s top companies in her campaign to increase women’s representation on boards.

12/08/2014

It's not like Lego hasn't done great ads with girls over the years. In fact, it was ahead of its time. (Everyone has seen famous "What it is is beautiful" print ad from 1981 by now.) But lately, the brand has let toy rivals like GoldieBlox lead the way in messages of girl empowerment.

12/04/2014

"Generic approaches to supporting women as they rise through large companies are likely to be ineffective or even counter-productive. Adapting a policy that seems to work in the US isn’t necessarily going to be helpful in Mexico, Turkey, Russia or China."

Momentum equals mass times velocity. Since the beginning of this century, legislation, lobbying and simple good business sense have led to an increase in the number of women in executive and board positions around the world. For instance, less than

11/29/2014

Fifteen-year-old Tavi Gevinson had a hard time finding strong female, teenage role models — so she built a space where they could find each other. At TEDxTeen, she illustrates how the conversations on sites like Rookie, her wildly popular web magazine for and by teen girls, are putting a new, unapologetically uncertain and richly complex face on modern feminism.

11/21/2014

Graduate Women in Brunch hosted by Deloitte - thanks to VP of Career Ashley Clausnitzer for organizing!

11/14/2014

Interesting talk about the roles marketing and gender stereotypes play in career decisions.

For decades, the share of women majoring in computer science was rising. Then, in the 1980s, something changed.

10/29/2014

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/239126

Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani is partnering with big Silicon Valley companies to teach young girls to love computer science.

10/08/2014