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Weekly Round Up

Weekly Round Up – July 24th, 2011

by Etan Berkowitz July 25, 2011

- Four Innovative Initiatives to Attract and Retain Diverse Women (Glass Hammer) Recently, Working Mother Magazine released its 2011 list of the best places to work for multicultural women – essentially, a survey of the availability and usage of diversity programs, as well as the accountability of the managers who oversee them at top corporations. For the [...]

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Weekly Round Up – July 9th, 2011

by Etan Berkowitz July 9, 2011

- Making Strides at Start-Ups (Wall Street Journal) A growing number of U.S. female executives, mentoring groups and women investors are helping to crack the glass ceiling in start-ups. The percentage of women among start-up capital seekers grew to about 20% last year, up from 12.6% in 2000, according to the University of New Hampshire’s [...]

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Weekly Round Up – July 3rd, 2011

by Etan Berkowitz July 3, 2011

- Six Things Every Woman Should Ask for in 2011 (Forbes) Whether you’re an experienced negotiator or just starting out, this list (together with six more tips I’ll post later this week) is designed to help you define and meet goals in your financial, professional and personal lives. Try one item per month, or get [...]

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Weekly Round Up – June 26th, 2011

by Etan Berkowitz June 27, 2011

- Inside the Connected World of Female Web Moguls (CNN Money) Platform heels and designer dresses are not sartorial standards at most Internet Week events in New York, which wrapped up earlier this week. With their bursts of colorful high-fashion, the 50 women in technology who gathered in midtown last week for a Calliope Group networking [...]

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Weekly Round Up – June 18th, 2011

by Etan Berkowitz June 18, 2011

- Responsibility in Public Office: What Weiner Could Learn from Women (GoGirl Finance) Though Anthony Weiner’s Twitter transgressions are somewhat amusing in their absurdity, the barrage of political sex scandals lately is getting frustrating and tiresome. I also can’t help but notice that sex scandals, while certainly bipartisan, seem to be committed mostly by our [...]

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Weekly Round Up – June 12th, 2011

by Etan Berkowitz June 12, 2011

- All Women: A Wake Up Call (GoGirl Finance) Consider these statistics a wake-up call: a resounding majority of women–80 to 90 percent of them worldwide–must, at some point, manage their own finances. And in this country, women control as much as $19 trillion of wealth (both independently earned and inherited), which accounts for more [...]

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Weekly Round Up – June 4th, 2011

by Etan Berkowitz June 4, 2011

- Networking Really Works (GoGirl Finance) My short time in the real world has taught me that networking is the most effective way to land a job. After months of sending thoughtful cover letters into the Internet void to no avail, I focused my energy on networking–and was markedly more successful. At first I was [...]

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Weekly Round Up – May 13, 2011

by Guest May 14, 2011

- Our Love/Hate Relationship With Stress (The Daily Femme!) Who among us doesn’t relate to this one? In an age when we are expected to be everything — career women, good partners, parents, friends, philanthropists and more — I think perhaps we don’t stop and wonder who really expects those things of us. Is it external [...]

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