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How one ETF up nearly 20% this year promotes female empowerment “I hate to use the word ‘guarantee,’ but we certainly provide some assurance that … the over 200 companies that are involved in the ETF are doing the right thing to empower women,” Herrera said. “As we know, companies that have a focus this…

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Monica Lewinsky Is (Reluctantly) Revisiting ‘That Woman’ “I wanted a job, I wanted a husband, I wanted kids,” she said. “I wanted to be treated normally.” But she could never quite escape the shadow that hung over her name. After graduate school, she moved briefly to Portland, Ore., where she tried, and failed, to get…

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Norway poised for historic first female as its central bank chief Deputy governor Ida Wolden Bache is in a prime position to succeed Olsen in running monetary policy in the wealthiest Nordic economy, Nordea bank economist Dane Cekov and JP Morgan analyst Morten Lund told Bloomberg, who first reported the news. Is ‘Big Day Care’…

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The Week in Women LIVE with guest Shannon Saccocia, Chief Investment Officer at Boston Private Wealth. Monday August 23rd at 4pm ET / 1pm PT Malala: I Survived the Taliban. I Fear for My Afghan Sisters. In the last two decades, millions of Afghan women and girls received an education. Now the future they were promised is…

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This Week in Women LIVE is Back! My guest on Monday will be Joelle Boneparth, an assistant general counsel for a Fortune 100 company, an author, and a mother of two little girls. I’ve been hooked on Joelle’s weekly newsletter, Our Tiny Rebellions, since she started it earlier this year, and I can’t wait to…

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Can SPACs Give Women A Way Into Investment, The C-Suite And Boards? Women have been underrepresented as capital allocators, in the C suite, at the board level, and as investors. “Having your own SPAC [special purpose acquisition company] is a chance to rewrite corporate America,” said Liu. “It’s an opportunity to invest in women at…

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Why women are the MBA minority and how that could change While law school and medical school have achieved the 50% mark for women enrolled, that has yet to happen in MBA programs. The Forté Foundation, a nonprofit focused on gender parity in business, reports that among its 52 member schools, just 38.5% of full-time MBA students are women….

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Louisiana teen Zaila Avant-garde correctly spells ‘Murraya’ to win Scripps National Spelling Bee Zaila knew she would be the first African American winner of the bee. She knew Black kids around the country were watching Thursday night’s ESPN2 telecast, waiting to be inspired and hoping to follow in the footsteps of someone who looked like…

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The female CEOs on this year’s Fortune 500 just broke three all-time records While these achievements are notable, they’re only part of the story. Having a total of 41 women chief executives amounts to female leadership for just 8.1% of the Fortune 500. Says Lorraine Hariton, CEO of the gender equality organization Catalyst, “We need to tell…

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Return to Office? Some Women of Color Aren’t Ready “This was the first year that I haven’t had my hair commented on and touched without permission in my professional life,” she said. “I actually like not having to go into the office and be constantly reminded that I’m the only Black woman there.” Simone Biles…