Happy Wednesday! We have our tenth Anniversary Celebrations coming up in August and September. Please keep an eye out for the event postings as the Board Members and I will be attending the events and would like to meet as many of you as possible. It has been a pleasure to watch this organization growRead more
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Happy Monday! Very best wishes to you and yours for a Happy Fourth of July holiday this week. Last week Saudi Arabia became the last country on earth to allow women to drive. Before we celebrate this modicum of freedom for those women, please keep in mind that many of the activists that campaigned forRead more
Happy Monday! At this year’s Oscars, Frances McDormand, who won best actress called for her fellow colleagues to adopt inclusion riders in their contracts. The idea is that prominent actors, actresses and directors have the clout to ask that gender and ethnic diversity be a requirement among the cast and the crew. In a recentRead more
Happy Monday! A recent New York Times study found systemic discrimination against pregnant women from Walmart to Wall Street. A review of thousands of pages of court and public records found that many of the country’s largest and best-known companies strategically sideline pregnant women, pass them over for promotions and raises, and fire them whenRead more
Happy Wednesday! Investor Jean Case is leading the charge for impact investing in the US. Impact investing has seen phenomenal growth is up more than ten-fold since 2014 when the asset class only amounted to $10.6 billion. Impact investors want to earn a return by doing good, and the effort is being led by someRead more
Happy Wednesday! Graduation season is upon us and I am proud as punch to report that the Young Women’s Preparatory Network has graduated 358 seniors from 7 of its network schools. Ysleta, the 8th school to join the network does not yet have a senior class, but soon! These 358 graduates have been awarded aRead more
Happy Tuesday! For the first time in its 226-year history, the New York Stock Exchange will have a woman as CEO. Stacey Cunningham’s promotion means the two largest exchanges are now run by women. The full article can be found here. It seems that university endowment boards that have female majorities outperform their peers. ARead more
Happy Tuesday! Starting the week with good news, Edward Jones has named Penny Pennington as CEO. Ms. Pennington is the first woman ever to hold the post at a major Wall Street brokerage firm. Let’s hope this is a sign of good things to come! The article can be found here. From the progress file,Read more
Happy Tuesday! The first article, from the Harvard Business Review, tears down the reasons we tell ourselves that women don’t succeed at work. For example, it is often said that women don’t get ahead because they are more committed to their families than their jobs. A recent HBR survey found that everyone, regardless of gender,Read more
Happy Wednesday! I want to thank all of our speakers, sponsors and members for their support of our 9th annual State of the Markets event last week! The proceeds from our event (and from TXWSW operations) go to support the Young Women’s Preparatory Network and the important work they do. Many of you are familiarRead more
