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Ahead of
Mother’s Day, first lady Michelle Obama thanked her mother, Marian Robinson,
for being her “rock” at an event she spoke at honoring military mothers and
wives for being “outstanding role models” for their children, communities and
country.
Like many working mothers, Mrs. Obama, a lawyer by training, has struggled with raising children while working a full time job (President Obama mentions the First Lady’s struggles in a White House Forum on Women and the Economy.) In 2007, she decided to go part time to spend more time with her children and work on her husband’s presidential campaign.
I first came across Inês’
wonderful work two years ago, while researching girl empowerment communities
for my documentary project The Illusionists (for which Inês eventually became
an ally, supporter and sponsor).
I was instantly captivated by Inês’ vision, drive, determination, and altruism. Her enterprise 7Wonderlicious is focused on overturning gender stereotypes, empowering girls to achieve their full potential: the site contains a multitude of resources for girls and parents alike and is constantly updated with inspiring blog posts.
Inês’ latest initiative is “A Chain of Girl Goodness“: she aims to create a values-driven online marketplace – similar to Etsy.com – focused on empowering products for girls. In order to create a prototype for this online platform, Inês is currently running a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. Help make it happen here: www.indiegogo.com/GirlPower.
Video interview with Levo League Founders, Caroline Ghosn & Amanda Pouchot. Levo League is a technology startup dedicated to accelerating career development of young professional women. They have raised $1.25m in their initial round of fundind and launched this week, as we reported yesterday.
Is your business on Foursquare? Eric Dybala (@edybala) at Social Media Delivered explains how you can use Foursquare to drive business growth.
Video Interviews with Sheryl Sandberg, Meg Whitman & Other Female Heroes: The Women Who Make America
AOL and PBS last week launched "Makers: Women Who Make America" a digital video and broadcast initiative to showcase a collection of stories from women who helped shape the women's movement in the United States.
The multi-platform Makers project includes profiles of Female Internet Heroes such as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman and social software entrepreneur Gina Bianchini, amongst other women who have sparked change and paved the way for others in fields such as politics, arts, science and sports.
This year in Davos, the World Forum for Global Leaders, there are some high profile women attending. Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook interviews Christine Lagarde, Head of the IMF, on the economic crises, unemployment, the impact of growth on the environment and the solutions, but also on social media - Christine is rather a new social media user - and more.
Search for the Appropriate Growth, Sustainable Growth and Fiscal Sound Growth is the message.
People have to invent their own job, says Christine Lagarde, that's a huge opportunity for young people.
She Takes on the World Founder Natalie MacNeil’s TEDx Talk about women as the largest block of untapped catalysts for tomorrow and how we can empower women to change the world.
Why are peer groups critical for success? In part 3 of this series, Shellye Archambeau, CEO of MetricStream and Watermark board member; Bill Campbell, Chairman of Intuit, and Nora Denzel, SVP of Big Data, Social Design and Marketing, at Intuit, discuss the value that peer groups bring to the table and how they support women in leadership roles specifically.
The
Startup Genome is looking for a critical mass of women to participate in the
Startup Genome Project in order to aid their discovery of the DNA of women- led
startups. By joining the project, you will be adding the dimension of
quantitative data to their quest.
The Startup Genome has already learned that approximately 70% of the startups in their dataset scaled prematurely. I am very interested to see if the same pattern holds for women, because through the interviews I have conducted over the last year, the consensus has been that women tend to be perfectionistic, moving slower but more surely than their male counterparts. Is it possible that the more careful nature of women may cause them to fail less?
What happens when you take magazine enthusiasts and put them in a
room full of coders for 48 hours? You get to leverage the passions of avid
readers and combine them with the skills of mobile developers to create the
next big thing for magazine publishing houses.
The Finnish magazine publisher Bonnier Publications organized last
month a weekend long hackathon called the
Bonnier Dev Camp.
The aim was to create female-friendly lifestyle apps – or at least proof of concept prototypes that not only work, but look good and are user friendly.
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