Navigating the professional landscape as a woman can be challenging, but with the right strategies and mindset, you can achieve your career aspirations. This guide provides actionable insights to help you advance, seize opportunities, and build a fulfilling and empowering career. With targeted advice, you'll learn to navigate workplace complexities and harness your unique strengths effectively. Define Your Goals Setting clear, achievable goals is the cornerstone of career advancement. … [Read more...]
4 Methods of Dramatically Improving & Refining Your Core Leadership Skills
Whether you are the proud owner and manager of your business and are looking into ways of expanding not only your company but your own future career prospects or indeed are only just beginning your journey into the professional world of business, then focusing on improving your skills at leadership can only be a positive. With this in mind, continue reading to learn of four impressively effective methods of dramatically refining and improving your core leadership skills. 1. Go Back to … [Read more...]
Fighting Barriers in STEM Careers for Women
STEM careers offer premier growth and earnings, but there are some barriers that women face when pursuing STEM careers. One such example is the gender wage gap where women earn approximately 82 cents for every dollar earned by a man. With STEM careers specifically, men earn a 40% higher salary than women. Although women’s representation in STEM has increased dramatically since 1970, those strides have leveled off in recent years. In fact, the number of women working in computer fields — the … [Read more...]
Ways Women Make Money During COVID-19
Making money was hard enough before the pandemic, but many women have found their finances devastated and their careers lost or halted because of COVID-19. Indeed, the pandemic was especially hard on working women, many of them lost their jobs or had to return home to care for children as schools and daycare centers closed down. If you need money to pay for bills in the wake of your lost job, don’t lose hope. A Celebration of Women™ is here to detail some of the ways in which women … [Read more...]
Career Strategies for Women: 4 Tips for Success
Becoming successful at what you do is no easy task. The journey can be twice as hard if you're a woman seeking to climb the career ladder in a male-dominated business world. There’s no straightforward formula for achieving success in your career. But it's essential to have your own strategy based on your career demands and goals. Developing your success strategy on tried and tested principles can make the process a little more manageable. Here are four success tips for career women. 1. Focus … [Read more...]
3 Common Causes of Workplace Stress
Stress in the workplace isn’t a new concept, nor is it uncommon. According to Britain’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE), workplace stress is on the rise, reaching new heights that weren't seen pre-pandemic. No matter what industry you work in, or what your job is, there is a very high chance that you experience stress in the workplace, even occasionally. The problem with stress is that it results in negative effects mentally and physically, and so it shouldn’t be swept under the rug. Here … [Read more...]
Impact on Employment for Women in Engineering, STEM Career
ARaymond shares Insights on How they are Investing in Education for Women: In view of the increasing shortage of skilled workers, women are an important target group when recruiting for many manufacturing and engineering companies. We spoke to Franziska Gempp (32), HR Manager, at the international automotive supplier ARaymond in Lörrach, Germany, and the trained technical draftswoman Yvonne Maschat (34) about how the specialist for fastening and assembly solutions is doing at its German … [Read more...]
Women World Banking Leadership Program – Apply Extended
Application deadline extended! The Leadership & Diversity Program for Regulators is now accepting applications on a rolling basis. Join our 12-week program that equips senior officials (gender inclusive) from central banks and other regulatory agencies in emerging markets with the skills to create an enabling environment for women’s financial inclusion and develop women leaders within their institutions. From May 2 - July 29, participants join a series of interactive, live … [Read more...]
Women Who Code – Mentoring Girls to Code is Key
Coding is not, and has never been, gender-specific. Some of the very first programmers in history were women! By learning code at an early age, girls develop a better grasp for the technology, which helps them find better solutions and manage failure. Teaching girls to code gives children the chance to experience the feeling of failure, so that they learn not to give up when something doesn't work out, but rather begin again. Coding helps girls with academic performance and problem … [Read more...]
Women in Finance Build Global Sustainability
Sustainable Finance Sustainable Finance is the process of taking due account of environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations when making investment decisions in the financial sector, leading to increased longer-term investments into sustainable economic activities and projects (European Commission). The Global Program on Sustainability promotes the use of high quality-data and analysis on natural capital, ecosystem services and sustainability to better inform decisions made … [Read more...]
Globalization Trending in Business 2022
If there’s one thing that’s for certain, it’s that the COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted small and medium-sized businesses across the globe. Many small businesses had to pivot and shift accordingly and creatively in order to stay afloat in this post-pandemic world. Can the Internet Save our "Ma & Pa" Business? We can all watch the collapse of our brick and mortar small business fronts more each day; and these entrepreneurs may need to transit into the world of the internet accepting that … [Read more...]
Why Women in STEM Need to Step Up
Men and women have near identical human capital to offer at college graduation; then what happens... Suggested STEM Careers for Young Women? STEM Careers 1. Actuary 2. Aerospace Engineer 3. AI and Computer Scientist 4. Anthropologist & Archeologist 5. Astronaut 6. Astronomer 7. Biochemist & Biophysicist 8. Biomedical Engineer Although there has been an increase in the number of women in STEM careers, there are still many challenges we face that can make it intimidating … [Read more...]
How to Get More Women into The Logistics and Trucking Industry
Long-distance driving and delivery are a sector that is seeing huge growth, and one of the specific aspects has resulted in the diversification of the industry and an increase in equality in driver training. One of the biggest specific changes regarding this equality and diversity that is being seen is the rise and rise of the female long-distance, courier and delivery driver. This gender equality has been an ongoing process for a while; however, it has not taken route in the driver and … [Read more...]
8 Female Industries That Need To Be Supported
Women are still vastly outnumbered in many industries, but there are also plenty of female-friendly fields. Not only are there more female-led fields than ever before, but women are making ways in traditionally male-dominated industries, especially in the professional realm. Why is Supporting Female-Friendly Industries Important? Supporting female-friendly industries is more than just a way to sell products; it's also a way to support and encourage women who are making changes in … [Read more...]
Women & Feminism in the Technology Realm
Comparing the number of women to men working in the tech field leaves a lot to be desired. Even though women working in the tech industry continue to grow, with a lot of them taking up jobs in systems administration, software development, and business seo service, to name a few, there is still room for improvement. Taking a rough look at the CEOs of top tech giants across the globe such as Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, and Google’s Sundar Pichai shows how … [Read more...]