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Is Starting Your Own Business Worth the Risk?

Belinda Parmar, founder of Lady Geek, says taking the risk of entrepreneurship can be liberating. “For the first time I’m working on something I truly believe in,” she writes in Forbes. “The only regret I have ...

Google’s Judy Nam: 50 Million Paths to Success

Judy Nam is an executive with Google Inc. in Chicago. A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, she also attended the year-long Google Marketing Academy conducted with The Wharton School of the U...

Should We Promote Single-Sex Education?

Women’s colleges are on the decline in America and some see a loss of women’s leadership development resulting from it. The plaudits being given to Hillary Rodham Clinton call attention to the educational groun...

Facebook COO Unfriends Gender Stereotypes

Phrases such as “She’s a bit aggressive” used in judging businesswomen’s job performance are unfortunate stereotyping, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Sw...

GlassCeiling.com Hosts Networking Event

GlassCeiling.com hosted its inaugural networking event on Jan. 15, 2013, at The Peninsula Hotel in Chicago. The evening’s theme was “You Can’t Get What You Don’t Ask For; Tell Us What You Want or Need.” Discuss...

Four Key Tools for Entrepreneurs

What four vital resources help women entrepreneurs in the Midwest? Lynn-Ann Gries, president and chief investment officer of Cleveland-based JumpStart Inc., points to four: networking opportunities; women-geare...

Women’s Businesses Grow ‘Under the Radar’

Women-owned businesses lack visibility, not success. A new report suggests such businesses with $10 million+ in revenues have grown by 57% to 12,700 over the past decade. This has happened “ under the radar,” a...

17th Place and Falling

With 75% of women in the workforce, the United States ranked 17th among 22 developed countries. That’s a huge retreat from 1990, when we rank 6th, according to research by Cornell economists Francine Blau and L...

Can Quotas Beat the ‘Old Boy Network’?

Britain should institute quotas to ensure that women are fairly represented in boardrooms, says Frances O’Grady. Her opinion matters: She is the first woman to serve as general secretary of the Trades Union Con...

10Q w/ Kelly Phelan

1. Name: Kelly Phelan 2. Current job: Account Coordinator at Soda Pop Public Relations in Los Angeles Past Jobs: Intern, then Front Desk Assistant for Much and House Public Relations in Los Angeles 3. Last sc...