After years of ‘glacial’ change, women now hold more than 1 in 4 corporate board seats
After being stuck at 16 percent for several years, the percentage of women-held board seats in the S&P 500 now reaches nearly 27 percent, according to data from ISS Analytics. Just one company in the S&P 500 has an all-male board. Source link
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Mind Your Business: Redoing Entrepreneurship | Elena Rodriguez Blanco | TEDxModulUniversity
Mind Your Business: Redoing Entrepreneurship I am a social entrepreneur and currently CEO and cofounder of Authenticitys (www.authenticitys.com), cofounder of Bloom Microventures in Vietnam (www.bloommicroventures.org)as well as former participant in several startup and business development teams for educational projects in Spain. All of these organisations address some of the challenges that our society is facing
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Building Brands: From Emotional to Logical Connect | Hanna Stromgren Khan | TEDxSFIT
Hanna is a brand strategist by profession and a feminist at heart who encourages women to value authenticity, vulnerability and genuine connection. She is from Sweden, who talks about the vulnerabilities in the workplace that can be a conversation killer. Alongside the pitfalls expressed, she also focuses on building brands in the 21st Century in
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Programmed to Create | Sarah Larbi | TEDxYouth@BeaconStreet
Confining yourself to a single way of thinking limits the potential for innovation across fields. As a whole, we are socially conditioned to believe that we are definitively placed in a creative or logical category. Sarah Larbi’s experience as a computer scientist with 18 years of dance experience has changed her perspective on this structured
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The shock of unemployment may push men into jobs traditionally held by women, study shows
One particular factor — the loss of a job — pushed some men into taking jobs in female-dominated industries, such as nursing. Source link
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Rockin' Out | Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls | TEDxPortland
Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp For Girls provides week-long summer camps for girls, including those who are trans and gender nonconforming, where campers learn to play an instrument, form a band, write an original song and perform live. With special thanks to the UNIVERSITY OF OREGON for presenting partnership, a world class stage design provided by
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#Girlpower | Maryam Montague | TEDxMarrakesh
Maryam Montague is passionate about women’s and girls’ rights and is the founder of Project Soar. Together with Fatima Ait Ouknik who is working with her at Project Soar she is presenting this powerful speech about girls development and self confidence in Morocco. Fatima’s passion for girls and women’s right led her to begin working
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Child Care is Part of an Inclusion Strategy | Priya Amin | TEDxPittsburghWomen
Priya Amin has had many titles. Brand manager. Co-founder. Mom. It’s the latter that inspired her to understand more about the cost of ignoring childcare, the cost to organizations and the cost to working parents. In her talk, she shares ideas on why she believes childcare is a critical part of every organization’s roadmap to
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The shock of unemployment may push men into jobs traditionally held by women, study shows
One particular factor — the loss of a job — pushed some men into taking jobs in female-dominated industries, such as nursing. Source link
- Published in Leadership
Design Your Life | Diane von Furstenberg | TEDxVeniceBeach
Just 18 months before Diane von Furstenberg was born, her mother was a prisoner at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, DVF vowed from a young age to be in control of her own destiny, to create her own freedom. She went on to found one of the most recognizable brands
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