Physician entrepreneur backs women-led startups
Just a few years out of residency, Dr. Mary Jo Gorman was practicing medicine at SSM DePaul Health Center when she started her first company, in 1991. Over the next two decades, the serial entrepreneur founded two more health care companies. Her latest effort aims to help other women follow a similar path by nurturing […]
Are women in science in a better position than women in tech?
Laura Wheeler of Digital Science gives her perspective on the challenges facing women in science and in technology, and tells us why role models like Ada Lovelace can provide inspiration. Over the last few months a few controversial incidents relating to gender inequality in science have brought such issues to the forefront of the media’s […]
Claudia Alexander, Beloved NASA Project Scientist, Dies at 56
Claudia Alexander, a beloved NASA project scientist who spearheaded NASA’s side of the European Rosetta comet mission and the Galileo mission to Jupiter, has died at age 56. Alexander died after a 10-year battle with breast cancer, according to a NASA statement.
Janice Howroyd, first black woman to own billion dollar business
Janice Bryant Howroyd has gone from one of 11 children growing up in segregated North Carolina to the first African-American female to own a billion-dollar business, turning $900 in her pocket when she left her hometown in 1976 into a vast fortune.
Legal barriers prevent women’s empowerment in more than 170 countries
Twenty years after the historic Beijing conference on women’s empowerment, more than 170 countries still have legal barriers in place preventing women from experiencing the same rights, protections and liberties as men and boys, according to a new report on trends in gender equality around the world.
Hillary Clinton Faces Test of Record as Women’s Advocate
MIAMI — It was supposed to be a carefully planned anniversary to mark one of the most important and widely praised moments in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s political career — and to remind the country, ahead of a likely 2016 presidential campaign, about her long record as a champion for the rights of women and girls.
China Detains Several Women’s Rights Activists
BEIJING — China detained at least 10 women’s rights activists over the weekend to forestall a nationwide campaign against sexual harassment on public transportation that was to overlap with International Women’s Day, according to human rights advocates and associates of those detained.
International Women’s Day 2015 Theme: MAKE IT HAPPEN
All around the world, International Women’s Day represents an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women while calling for greater equality.