WIB Skills

Each week, we feature a different Women in Business topic with TIPS, videos and resources.

Build your skills and continue your professional development through the articles below - and then join the conversation on Facebook or at an upcoming event. 

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PowHER Redefined

Women of Color Reimagining the World of Work
   December 8, 2021

A powerful guide to the immediate change we need in how women of color are promoted and empowered at work.

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Women’s Business School Enrollment Rose To A Historic Record In 2021: Here’s Why It Matters

Women’s Business School Enrollment Rose To A Historic Record In 2021: Here’s Why It Matters
   December 2, 2021

According to a new report out by the Forté Foundation, more than half of business schools now report 40% or more women enrolled. And for the first time in history, three business schools have reached gender parity.

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How Child Care Became the Most Broken Business in America

A plan to make day care more affordable for parents—if the providers don’t go out of business first
   November 18, 2021

Right now, congressional Democrats are negotiating the Build Back Better Act, a multitrillion-dollar social spending bill that includes a $390 billion plan to cut child-care costs for many U.S. families and provide free preschool for every kid in America. The current version, if fully implemented, would save American families billions and open the doors for millions of...

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Women are leading the way in the ‘Great Resignation.’ Here’s what it means for employers and job seekers

The “Great Resignation” is well underway, with women leading the charge.
   November 17, 2021

A record 4.4 million people quit their jobs in September, and 4.3 million did so in August, according to the Labor Department. It was women saying “I quit” more so than men, according to data from payroll provider Gusto, which serves small and medium-sized businesses. In August, the gender gap hit the widest it has been since the...

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Harvard Business Review: Research on Gender Pay Gaps

Customers Will Reward Companies for Smaller Gender Pay Gaps
   November 15, 2021

Over the last several years, new regulations have been passed in countries and regions around the world mandating that companies disclose salary information broken down by gender and other demographic data. How will consumers react as they gain visibility into the wage gaps of the companies they patronize? In this piece, the authors discuss new research suggesting that after a pay gap...

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Female Invest Raises $4.5 Million To Empower Women To Invest

Female Invest Raises $4.5 Million To Empower Women To Invest
   November 9, 2021

While Female Invest looks to teach its users to be better investors, Falkenberg says the mission is more than that. “It's not about helping more women get money, it's about giving them financial independence and freedom,” she says. “That’s really what it is all about.”

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How Does Impostor Syndrome Affect Businesswomen?

Addressing Impostor Syndrome and Ways to Overcome it
   November 2, 2021

It’s an all-too-familiar struggle for women in business — despite overwhelming evidence of your skills, talents, and achievements, you still feel like you don’t deserve any recognition. If you’re a woman entrepreneur or woman in business suffering from impostor syndrome, just know that you’re not alone. Even some of the most successful women have shared similar feelings...

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How Heineken USA CEO Maggie Timoney Succeeds in a Traditionally Male-Dominated Industry

Read on for the exec's 10 most insightful leadership lessons.
   October 29, 2021

An incredible raconteur, Timoney provided thoughtful insight on the most important lessons she's learned from her 25-year career and in life. Maggie Timoney explains 10 ways to succeed in a male-dominated industry.

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This Simple Perspective Change Can Help Leaders Retain Their Female Employees

The global health crisis that has radically altered the way she views her own career and life.
   October 15, 2021

The managing editor of InHerSight says after 18 months into a global health crisis that has radically altered the way she views her own career and life, she feels compelled to tell employers: Change the goal.

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Early 20s The ‘Perfect Time’ For Women To Become Entrepreneurs, Says Spring Health’s April Koh, Youngest Female Unicorn CEO

Your Early 20s Is The ‘Perfect Time’ For Women To Become Entrepreneurs
   October 11, 2021

April Koh started Spring Health, a platform for large employers looking to provide better mental health options for their employees, when she was 24 years old and still a student at Yale University. Six years later, and following a $190 million fundraise back in September that brought her company to a $2 billion valuation, Koh snuck past Shippo cofounder Laura Behrens Wu to become the...

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