Click here to view original web page at www.nytimes.com CHICAGO — Chicago became the largest American city ever to elect a black woman as its mayor as voters on Tuesday chose Lori Lightfoot, a former prosecutor, to replace Rahm Emanuel. When she takes office in May, Ms. Lightfoot also will be the city’s first openly […]
3 Things Every Woman Should Financially Have In Place Before Turning 30
Click here to view original web page at thriveglobal.com graja/Shutterstock Here’s the unfortunate truth: women often aren’t given the tools or education they need to support themselves financially, especially when we’re young. Rather, we’re conditioned to lean on other people to support us. Even today, that’s how many women are raised. As a result, we […]
It’s the Classroom, Dummy, Not the Conference Room
Click here to view original web page at www.entrepreneur.com 3 imperatives from a former Googler for bridging tech’s gender gap much earlier than is typical. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In the summer of 1999, fresh out of high school, I had the good fortune to sit down for coffee with Patty […]
Asset or Victims: A Portrait of Women Within al-Shabaab
Click here to view original web page at jamestown.org (source: gambar.wiki) Al-Shabaaab, the Somalia-based terror group, has been largely portrayed as a male organization in its more-than-decade-long operational history, but it’s now emerging that women are also at the center of one of Africa’s deadliest insurgencies. The group, al-Qaeda’s terror network affiliate in East Africa, […]
A reading list on women and climate change
Click here to view original web page at www.yaleclimateconnections.org The challenges posed by climate change cannot be met without also addressing gender issues. Because their lives are more vulnerable even under stable conditions, women face greater risks when climate-related impacts – droughts, floods, hurricanes – disrupt their communities. Conversely, giving women more power over their […]
Why pay transparency alone won’t eliminate the persistent wage gap between men and women
Click here to view original web page at wtop.com (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Nancy Modesitt, University of Baltimore (THE CONVERSATION) No matter how you slice the data, women in the U.S. earn a lot less than men. A typical woman working full-time makes […]