Meryl Streep’s Non-negotiable Demands For U.S. Women
With high-profile sexual harassment scandals proliferating and millions joining the viral #MeToo social movement, speakers at the 13th annual Massachusetts Conference for Women took on this major social tipping point. Academy Award winning actress Meryl Streep announced that she and other women in the entertainment industry plan to soon issue “non-negotiable” demands to improve the […]
Are Our Leaders Oversexed?
In a sex-crazed society like ours it really is no surprise to learn our leaders are also obsessed with the pleasures of the flesh. It’s embarrassing, yes, but hardly news. As angry debate over male libido takes over the media and social networks, I find myself wondering about the role of women in this. Are […]
All-female Police Motorbike Squad Fights Gender Crimes in Delhi
The squad of 600 policewomen will ride in pairs through the streets on state-of-art motorbikes, equipped with guns, pepper sprays and body cameras. An all-female police motorbike squad is set to take to Delhi’s streets next month, a senior police official said, as reports of violence against women rise in the Indian capital. The ‘Raftaar’ […]
7 Ways Companies Can Attract And Engage Millennial Employees
Employee engagement is hitting an all-time low with only 29% of Millennials reporting that they are engaged at work. Why is this an issue? Actively disengaged employees cost the U.S. $483 billion to $605 billion each year in lost productivity. These low engagement numbers are leading to significantly low retention rates. Only 31% of Millennials […]
Eduardo Saverin, Facebook Cofounder
Eduardo Luiz Saverin was born in São Paulo, Brazil, to a wealthy Jewish Brazilian family. In 1993, the family immigrated to the U.S., settling in Miami. Saverin attended Harvard University, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics. During his junior year at Harvard, Saverin met fellow Harvard undergraduate, Mark Zuckerberg. Noting the lack of a dedicated social networking website […]
Jeff Koons Partners With Kiehl’s For Missing & Exploited Children
Earlier this year Jeff Koons’s Seated Ballerina, a large-scale public art installation, rose into the air outside the Rockefeller Center in New York. The inflatable nylon sculpture stood 45 feet high and aimed to raise funds and awareness around missing children. Often referencing historical imagery and found objects, Koons based Seated Ballerina on a small porcelain figurine. The sculpture acts as […]
Girl Scouts To Bring 2.5 Million Girls Into STEM Pipeline By 2025
The organization is working to raise $70 million toward developing the next generation of female leaders in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) has announced a groundbreaking national initiative to reduce the gender gap in STEM fields by bringing millions of girls into the STEM pipeline over the next eight […]
10 Reasons Why Nobody Stopped Harvey Weinstein
Bias is a talent killer. It makes people small. It also emboldens powerful people to exploit anyone who is not in their favored group. After doing some deeper research, bias also seemed to answer the question, how might Harvey Weinstein have gotten away with being a sexual predator for decades? It’s all about bias and […]
What Does Entrepreneurship Mean in Other Cultures? I Found Out
As a millennial, I’m of the mindset that businesses should use their operations to make a profit and also impact their stakeholders. Whether that be through ethical supply chains, education, BOGO programs or the myriad social models that have sprung up in the past decade to make a difference in the world, triple bottom lines […]
Be Strong Documentary Tackles Bullying
Be Strong, a national, student-led youth empowerment organization dedicated to ending bullying in schools, is leading the charge to assure that no child lives with the isolation and fear of being bullied. In an effort to spread awareness in schools and the community, the organization will begin broadcasting its bullying prevention documentary online, reaching millions […]
