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Melinda Gates wrote this for International Women's Day - when you invest in Women, you invest in the people who invest in everybody else. Empowering Women makes good economic sense because the GDP rises when Women do. Since they are the ones who are encouraging and caring for their children, their investment in their children's education impacts the future generation as well.

Interesting background on the difference in communication styles between women and men by Susan C. Herring, professor of information science. Conclusion seems to be that women like "walled garden" communication styles, such as those used in Facebook or blogs where antagonistic comments may be controlled or eliminated, women are less assertive about establishing their knowledge nuggets and tend to be more suggestive and open to different interpretations of 'facts' than men are.

Excellent infograph of statistics on women at work in 2011, Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department of Labor. Includes how women spend their time, average annual expenditures, educational attainment, fatal occupational injuries, ratio of women's to men's earnings by occupation, women's earnings and employment by occupation, etc.

Women amplifying what other Women have said to get the attention of top decision maker and prevent men from being credited with the idea.

good article by Sam Polk, July 2016, on how sexist talk by men about women catapults even worse behavior by men

A UK article about how women are taking the lead in the mobile arena. They prefer mobile sites to apps, but use apps, and use social media much more than men. Some stats on the activity of women using mobile devices.

short video by Kathryn McClendon on many women not seeing themselves as leaders yet have a long list of accomplishments to show that they are. Distills leadership to three actions: Inspire. Persuade. and Influence. 8.5 minutes long. Talks about her leadership table of women who have touched her life. women of courage include her mother who immigrated from Guyana with two year old child (speaker). Claudette Colvin--an unwed, pregnant teenager who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, ALA months before Rosa Parks emerged. Marian de Forest--Buffalo, NY woman who became a playwright and journalist. Founded Zonta. Set a place for yourself at table of four.

"Women's entrepreneurship has hit a media tipping point. The question is: Is it just a passing media fad that will soon be a blip on the radar screen, or is it actually a real, fundamental economic force that's reshaping the world? I think it's safe to say that it's the latter. Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally - a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million Women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses. That's 224 million Women impacting the global economy - and this survey counts only 67 of the 188 countries recognized by the World Bank."

beautiful infograph on disparities in technical fields between women and men--men are hired almost twice as often as women, Melanie Pinola, lifehacker

HSN with Mindy Grossman's leadership has women as 40% of its board members. Tampa Bay Business Journal, November 30, 2015.

This blog post is for nonprofits to create marketing personas but it has value IMO for WLStudio, too. How would women at different ages--40, 50, 60, 70, and 80+year olds--relate to the "maven" title? We have suggested that maven 1.0 or 2.0 or 3.0 are aspirational levels of knowledge and skill that women would earn by going through different programs. Are these the personas that we wish to present to attract women to the WLStudio in the first place? Or something else?

"The growth of women's entrepreneurship in the last few decades has been extraordinary. According to the Small Business Administration, women-owned businesses accounted for a mere 4.5 percent of all businesses in 1977. In 2008, more than 40 percent of all businesses are 51 percent women-owned. However, only 3 percent of these companies gross more than a million in annual revenue. The Center for women's Business Research studied this elite group (those businesses grossing over a million in annual revenue) and determined some key characteristics that were common in all of the companies. These characteristics are as follows: "

"In 2002, approximately 12 million people were employed by nonprofits and another 100 million volunteered their time to help these organizations (O'Neill, 2002). If any sector could be exempt of the glass ceiling - where professional women would advance and be paid at the rate same as men - the nonprofit sector seems like the most viable candidate. An overw helming percentage of nonprofit employees are 3 women, so it logically follows that in this sector, the percentage of female CEOs would be larger than the percentage of male executives and the two groups would be similarly compensated (Hays, et al., 2009; Johnston, & Rudney, 1987; Gibelman, 2000a; Joslyn 2003; Shaiko, 1996; Pynes, 2000; McGinnis, 2009). Perhaps in this se tting, supportive female co-workers would be more likely to confront inequity and encourage women as they work toward promotions. But such scenarios are the exception rather than the norm. It turns out that the glass ceiling of nonprofits is similar in construc tion and resiliency to the gl ass ceilings of government and private industries. "

"About This Video Many of the hurdles women face at work can be categorized into four patterns of bias. By seeing these patterns, women can stop feeling like their set-backs are purely personal failings, and start using the strategies outlined by Williams. ..."

interesting section on computer mediated communications that provides names of women researchers involved in this work, such as Susan Herring, Cheris Kramarae & Jeanie Taylor, Amy Bruckman, Kathleen Michel, and Gladys We. I will need to research more current work by these women since this article is probably from the early 2000s.

interesting section on computer mediated communications that provides names of women researchers involved in this work, such as Susan Herring, Cheris Kramarae & Jeanie Taylor, Amy Bruckman, Kathleen Michel, and Gladys We. I will need to research more current work by these women since this article is probably from the early 2000s.

Website on project in Germany, Turkey, and Poland that helps women use entrepreneurship opportunities to become involved civically, too.

This article includes some thought-provoking ideas about women taking on leadership roles.

women becoming solar engineers in Madagascar Spiegel Online

press release on Accenture study looking at how digitally savvy women are helping to close the gender gap in the workplace, March 3, 2016. 

nice article on why women lose ambition from toxic environments and never fully recover, Shelly Darnutzer, March 9, 2016, LinkedIn Pulse via Twitter