Wavemakers is a joint weekly feature by Femme-O-Nomics’ founder Leah Eichler and Mic Berman that profiles female innovators — women who are constantly blazing new trails, inspiring others and revolutionizing the status quo. This week meet singer/song-writer, Sarah Solovay, and her mom, Susan.
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As a card-holding member of Generation X, I adopted an early disdain for temporary work, often equating it in my mind with the McJobs popularized in Douglas Coupland quintessential book. But with the changing economic climate – one that waves goodbye to the notion of long-term job security and loyalty – temporary work has gradually become normalized.
Although creating a community atmosphere costs in terms of effort and planning, it remains an important tool to stem attrition rates. Salary alone isn’t always the deciding factor when employees contemplate jumping ship.
Who earns the money in your household? It’s a question we need to start asking more often since buried in this conversation about women’s advancement in the workplace, where we fanatically count the number of women on boards, lives this trend of women increasingly out earning and out educating men.
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Women have increasingly become the primary breadwinners in their families but they feel less prepared to make financial decisions. This is one key finding in Prudential’s 2012-2013 Research Study on Financial Experience & Behaviors Among Women.
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As a card-holding member of Generation X, I adopted an early disdain for temporary work, often equating it in my mind with the McJobs popularized in Douglas Coupland quintessential book. But with the changing economic climate – one that waves goodbye to the notion of long-term job security and loyalty – temporary work has gradually become normalized.
Although creating a community atmosphere costs in terms of effort and planning, it remains an important tool to stem attrition rates. Salary alone isn’t always the deciding factor when employees contemplate jumping ship.
Despite the strides taken by law firms to increase the number of women lawyers in leadership positions, only a dismal 18.8 percent become partners in the nation’s biggest firms.
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How do you develop clarity on your leadership vision? Lawyer and certified coach Bonnie Flatt offers her suggestions.
We bring you a book review for “How Ella Grew an Electric Guitar: A Girl’s First Adventure in Business” written by Orly Sade and Ellen Neuborne. Parents who want to go beyond telling their children that “money doesn’t grow on trees” will find that this fun story told from the eyes of someone their age will actually do more than educate.
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The amount of time an entrepreneur puts into his/her business is directly correlated with the amount of reward as a result. The same goes for motherhood. However, running your own business allows for one of the most important words in the Mother’s Dictionary: flexibility. If I need to come into the office early because I know I have a baseball game to catch later, I will do that. The time is still there, just in a different slot.
With child marriages cutting off the Yemeni girls’ access to education, endangering their health, and subjecting them to abuse, researchers and activists are calling for an end to this long-held practice.
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“Women are the foot soldiers of climate change adaptation.” By educating women in the rural areas on climate change and water management, they foster the program’s continued success. The participation of women is key to protecting the environment in various regions of the world.
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Femme-O-Nomics plans to follow the ups — and downs — of today’s female captains of industry. Please send tips and suggestions to . This week, we look at Meg Whitman and how she implemented some major damage control.
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Femme-O-Nomics plans to follow the ups — and downs — of today’s female captains of industry. Please send tips and suggestions to . We continue to follow Marissa Mayer and how she’s maintaining her presence.
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