Women And The Water Crisis: Why Tackling Two Top Global Challenges Will Be A Force Multiplier For Change
The world faces two grave challenges: the global water and sanitation crisis, and gender inequality – namely the health, educational, and economic disparities affecting women worldwide. These global crises are inextricably linked, but fortunately, so are their...
How the Pandemic Opened the Door to My Career in Tech
The 2020 coronavirus pandemic played a part in reducing the access gap for parents (with caregiving responsibilities), disabled people, and neurodivergent people in tech. I’m a member of each of those marginalized groups, plus some. Tech’s quick transition to remote...
New Report Showcases How Female and Male MBAs Perceive Entrepreneurship and VC
MBA students are now drawn to entrepreneurship more than ever before. In Illuminate Ventures’ latest research paper, over 85% of MBA respondents – including 88% of men, and 80% of women – were considering an entrepreneurial career path. The current pandemic also lends...
Learning the ABCs of Allyship
Did you know that someone proposed a new “Alphabet Song”? One that rids us of the famed LMNOP (read “ellemenopee”) in favor of each letter getting its shine in the song. Of the few things that brought me joy this 2020, watching people on social...
Even the Pandemic Discriminates Against Women
In some way, shape, or fashion, COVID-19 has affected everyone. However, it hasn’t affected everyone equally. Women are more likely to be unemployed than men. And those who are still employed tend to fall into one of two groups: mothers working from home who...
An Opinion Writer Urged Jill Biden to Drop the ‘Dr.’ (He Got the Backlash He Deserved.)
Joseph Epstein’s op-ed in The Wall Street Journal was breathtakingly sexist. What on earth was he thinking — or was he even thinking at all? “Madame First Lady—Mrs. Biden—Jill—kiddo: a bit of advice on what may seem like a small but I think is a not unimportant...
A Case for Listening: Because It’s Not Always About Us
It started with a statement: “I feel offended by men referring to women as females.” What transpired was a cavalcade of feelings, opinions, and “facts”. On a random afternoon where I needed to procrastinate, a Facebook group thread started with...
The Business-for-Good Model at the Center of a Founder’s Career
Leeatt Rothschild has always had a desire to give back throughout her life. In 2002, she immersed herself in community as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay. During her time there, she helped launch an income-generating fertilizer business with local farmers, proving...