For all the women who are succeeding at starting and growing companies, assuming leadership roles, successfully navigating career changes, we know there’s a large segment of women struggling to find a path forward in this fast moving, technology-driven landscape that is our modern day reality. For women who have stepped away from their careers to raise a family, reduced their hours, or found themselves in the midst of a reduction in force, the struggle to gain footing as they try to re-enter the workforce or find new jobs can be overwhelming.  → Read More

A few months ago, a Facebook friend shared a glowing recommendation for TheSkimm, a daily newsletter delivered to your inbox at 6 am designed to help you get up to speed on the day’s headlines (tag line: We read. You Skimm). I checked it out and was hooked immediately, not only because of the content in it, but because of how it was delivered. I felt like I was reading an email about the news from one of my best friends. It is fresh, and at times funny, and I can read it while waiting for the toaster oven to ding. And I’m not the only one. Very early on TheSkimm hit 100,000 subscribers and on Monday, the start-up announced they had raised $1.1 million in seed funding to build their business.  → Read More

As a girl growing up in a small town in Rhode Island, I never actually heard the word, “engineering” until I was a senior in high school. At the time, my math teacher suggested I pursue it as a college major. I couldn’t understand why she thought I would want to be a train driver! Luckily, I heeded her advice and tried Mechanical Engineering 101 my freshman year at Stanford. To my surprise, I loved the class and declared it as my major. Unfortunately, I was one of very few women to follow this path. The statistics are dire: only 11% of engineers in the US are women.  → Read More

Another week come and gone…and lucky for you, we’ve been keeping track of the interesting stories you may have missed! Celebrate the end of another long week by catching up on the headlines that caught our eye this week. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Find out what it means to…the American people. FINALLY! Leaders have reached a temporary deal to avoid the debt crisis and re-open our government, and women are getting most of the credit from their male colleagues on both sides of the aisle with Senator John McCain (R-Ariz) saying, “Leadership, I must fully admit, was provided primarily from women in the Senate.” Full Story: HuffPost: Men Got Us Into The Shutdown, Women Got Us Out  → Read More

When a male enrolls in college and selects a major such as engineering, the reactions from family and friends alike range from “Congratulations,” “What area is most interesting to you?” to “That’s impressive, good luck.  → Read More