Business News
Women near a third of C-suite roles. The management layer didn't move.
The 2024 Women in the Workplace report — tenth edition, 10 million-plus employee records — documents C-suite progress stuck above a frozen middle.
Heroines
Entrepreneurship
The 2 percent problem: women founders and venture funding
Companies founded solely by women have taken around 2 percent of U.S. venture dollars for a decade, per PitchBook data — the number the industry reports on itself.
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Women-owned businesses closed the small-loan gap. Venture funding didn't.
Entrepreneurship
When should a woman move her side hustle to full time?
Horoscope
Why Mercury retrograde became astrology's favorite scapegoat
The phrase describes an optical illusion, not a disruption in the solar system. Here's the cultural history of how it became shorthand for a bad day, traced through named astrologers, historians, and one blunt astrophysicist.
Horoscope
Saturn return and the career questions it raises
An entertainment-only guide to the famous saturn return tradition and the career questions people playfully ask at that age — folklore for fun, never prediction or advice.
Horoscope
Eclipse season as a moment to reflect on work change
An entertainment-only take on eclipse season and the work-change reflection ritual some people enjoy — atmospheric folklore, clearly labeled, never prediction or career advice.
Community
Peer support groups close part of the sponsorship gap for women, data shows
Entry-level women are sponsored at lower rates than men, and Lean In's own data on peer circles shows a real but unverified association with faster promotions and raises.
Community
Local chambers of commerce and what they do for women owners
A chamber membership is a bet on local referral flow and government visibility, and it pays unevenly, depending on the business's customers and the chamber's actual activity.
Community
Starting a peer accountability group at work or beyond it
A five-to-eight person group with a fixed cadence and one rule, commitments read aloud, is the cheapest career infrastructure a woman can build, and it costs one hour a month.
Careers News
What pay-transparency laws require employers to post, and how to read them
A growing number of states force employers to disclose a salary range before you apply. Here is what the range actually promises, and what it doesn't.
Careers News
Home care leads all US occupations in projected job growth
Federal projections show home health and personal care aides adding more jobs than any other occupation through 2034 — work performed overwhelmingly by women at low wages.
Careers News
AI-driven tech job cuts hit women harder than their share
Tech layoffs topped 139,000 in the first half of 2026, and women — about a quarter of the tech workforce — made up close to half of those cut.
Business News
Women near a third of C-suite roles. The management layer didn't move.
The 2024 Women in the Workplace report — tenth edition, 10 million-plus employee records — documents C-suite progress stuck above a frozen middle.
Business News
How women-owned firms get certified for federal contracts under the 5 percent goal
Certification, not self-attestation, is now the gate to WOSB set-asides. What the rules require, what the 2025 update changed, and what the goal covers.
Equality News
UN Women's 2026 verdict: no country has reached legal equality for women
The agency's March 2026 global alert on failing justice systems lands next to World Bank data showing enforcement lags law by 14 points worldwide.