Happy Monday! 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 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
Happy Monday: To start, kudos to Blackrock for sending letters last week to all the Russell 1000 companies with fewer than 2 women on their boards. Blackrock has also updated its proxy voting guidelines to stipulate that they expect companies to have at least 2 women on their boards. This is a great first stepRead more
Happy Tuesday: I hope you all had a wonderful holiday week! I know this week is a busy one for many of us trying to wrap everything up before year end, however, I hope you find some time for yourself to enjoy the holiday spirit! The first article is the reflection of a woman thatRead more
Happy Tuesday: For our Houston members, please don’t forget that we have our rescheduled shopping night at Elaine Turner this Wednesday. Cannot make it to Houston? Call the Elaine Turner shop at 713-255-0052 to place an order and 15% of all proceeds go to support the Young Women’s Preparatory Network if you mention TXWSW. GetRead more
Happy Wednesday: If women make up 51% of the population, how is it that we can allow ourselves, as a group to be subjected to discrimination? We are in the majority after all, so how is this even possible? As one of my mentors shared with me, because women come in all shapes, sizes, colors,Read more
Happy Tuesday: From the career advice file, a recent article from the Wall Street Journal is one of the most worthwhile reads this week. The article examines the effect of cell phone usage on our intellect. While there is no doubt that cell phones have made our lives more convenient and productive, there is aRead more
Happy Friday: Late last week, the New York Times finally figured out why women-led start-ups get a fraction of the funding ($1.5 billion) that male-led start-ups ($58.2 billion) receive, and it was because female founders were the victims of predatory behavior and sexual harassment. This was an open secret in the industry keeping many womenRead more
Dear TXWSW: The amazing thing about the internet is that it is exposing gender bias at a blinding rate and bringing the conversation into the public domain. For those women in senior roles and on boards, David Bonderman’s demeaning comments were not new – what is new is the vitriol that those comments were metRead more