Dani Fava has a new gig at Envestnet ” The firm “has all these pieces and now it’s working to build a strategy office to kind of be the visionary [agent] of transformative change for the future. That’s just music to my ears. … It’s really an exciting position for me.” From Portland to Buenos…

CFP Board Elects Kamila McDonnough, CFP as 2021 Board Chair-Elect McDonnough, the First African American Woman Chosen to Chair-Elect Role, Brings Strong Board and Leadership Experience to CFP Board. Moms are twice as likely as dads to have been negatively impacted at work by the pandemic Nearly twice as many working moms (81 percent) as dads…

NASA Names Headquarters after Mary Jackson, the agency’s first Black female engineer Jackson started work at NASA’s predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), in 1951 at the then-segregated West Area Computing Unit. She took night classes in mathematic and physics to qualify as an engineer in 1958, before rising to achieve the most…

More Republican Women than Ever are Running for Congress NPR When the dust settled after the 2018 Democratic wave, the ranks of Republican women had been decimated. Just 13 were left standing. “It was really such a kick to all of the Republican women,” Rep. Susan Brooks, R-Ind., told NPR. “We were really not expecting…

19th Amendment anniversary celebration will put women on Mt. Rushmore, temporarily Washington Post For two weeks, Abigail Adams, Sojourner Truth, Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Ida B. Wells, Alice Paul, Jeannette Rankin, Gladys Pyle, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, Zitkala-Sa, Nellie Tayloe Ross and Rosa Parks will be projected in pairs flanking…

I have struggled to find the words to convey the pain I feel about racial injustice and inequality in my country. I worry that I don’t deserve to say anything about it at all, that I am not qualified to comment. But I am glad the spark his finally been lit, and that we are…

‘I had to choose being a mother’: With no childcare or summer camps, women are bring edged out of the workforce The Lily There is not enough time to do everything. Families have to make tough choices: If a ball must be dropped, which one should it be? Chances are, in a heterosexual couple, it…

Bletchley Park codebreaker, who helped change course of World War II dies of coronavirus The Scotsman The veteran, who spent more than 20 months helping to decipher German codes at the top secret facility, died on Monday at an Edinburgh care home. She was 97, and had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly before her death….

Why are Women-Led Nations Doing Better with Covid-19? Amanda Taub, New York Times We should resist drawing conclusions about women leaders from a few exceptional individuals acting in exceptional circumstances. But experts say that the women’s success may still offer valuable lessons about what can help countries weather not just this crisis, but others in…

The Leader We Wish We All Had Sanya Dosani and Adam Westbrook, New York Times The coronavirus has turned several public health officials and local leaders into bona fide celebrities, and perhaps no one is more compelling than the Ohio Health Department’s Dr. Amy Acton. She wasn’t just the brains behind the state’s early, aggressive coronavirus…