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North America | United States | Advice

Personal finance expert Jean Chatzky warns women: ‘We are sabotaging our financial security’

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On the eve of International Women’s Day, personal finance journalist Jean Chatzky says she worries about a paradox at the heart of women’s investing habits: Women are better at investing than their male counterparts, but they prefer to stash their money, exposing them to greater financial risk. Chatzky says women tend to be more cautious with money than men, but that caution can backfire.
North America | United States | Advice

Female company president: “I’m sorry to all the mothers I worked with”

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PowerToFly President Katharine Zaleski admits: “I didn’t realize how horrible I’d been – until I had a child of my own.” I still am embarrassed by this memory. Five years ago I walked into an office on the twenty-fifth floor of the Manhattan headquarters of Time Inc. (which owns Fortune.) I was there to meet with Time.com’s then managing editor and pitch a partnership idea, but once I took a seat and surveyed the endless photos of her small children spread across the airy space, I decided this editor was too much of a mother to follow up on the idea. I still went throug
South Asia | India | Advice

Ela R Bhatt: All types of economies should co-exist

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I must start by saying my worldview of entrepreneurs is that of the poor, the self-employed and women. My ‘self-employed’ include those who are economically active and working on their own account: The so-called informal sector workers, who comprise over half of India’s workforce. Most of them, particularly women, run single-person enterprises or family units. My observation, through the eyes of SEWA, tells me that they are either those who cannot get formal jobs or those who have lost their jobs, engaging in informal activities as a last resort; as piece-rate workers, street vendors
North America | United States | Advice

Tech Women Triumph: $30k Funding In A Day, Success Under Pressure, True Leaders Inspire

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The women who founded Jewelbots, a programmable friendship bracelet that teaches girls aged 9 to 14 how to code, scored $30,000 of funding in just 19 hours. Having well exceeded their goal, they are nearing an astonishing $140,000 at the time of writing. How can you do the same for your tech startup idea? Cofounders Sara Chipps and Brooke Moreland tell me: “We learn new lessons every day. For crowd funding, we really learned that you must prepare.” The founders thoroughly analyzed successful and unsuccessful campaigns, before carefully choosing words, design, video and rewards, and c
South Asia | India | Advice

Voters trust women politicians more: Margaret Alva

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Margaret Alva has been a politician for almost 50 years. She has been a key member of the Congress party, since 1969 and has served several terms as a Union Minister and state Governor. In a special interview, Alva has a frank discussion about being a woman in politics, her father-in-law's influence on her and her high-profile falling out with Sonia Gandhi in 2008. She reflects on the struggles of being a woman politician during her start and now and discusses the urgent need for introspection within the Congress. In her experience, Alva shares her views on why voters trust women poli
North America | United States | Advice

The first African American woman to own a billion-dollar business just shared some amazing advice

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“In order to be outstanding, sometimes you have to stand out.” This pearl of wisdom was given to Janice Bryant Howroyd by her mother. And if you haven’t heard of Howroyd, here’s something for your daily dose of inspiration: she was the first African-American woman to own a billion-dollar business; Howroyd persevered in the face of poverty, sexism, and racism to grow the $900 she had when she left her North Carolina home in 1976 into Act1 Group, a multi-billion-dollar staffing firm. She is truly an outstanding woman. In an interview with TODAY, Howroyd shared her four personal
North America | United States | Advice

Boston University Female Powerlifter: ‘I’m Not Strong for a Girl – I’m Just Strong’

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Before Boston University graduate Molly Kelly took up the sport of powerlifting in school, she was always concerned with being the smallest version of herself. "I struggled really badly with disordered eating for a long time when I was younger," the 22-year-old tells PEOPLE. "I always wanted to be smaller. I was always obsessed with being thin and so I always tried to eat less and run more – anything I could do to take up less space." But learning to master weight-lifting moves like the bench press, squat and dead lift helped the Connecticut native accept her body and its potential.
North America | United States | Advice

Google Exec Reveals the One Word Women Need to Stop Saying If They Ever Want to Be ‘Respected’

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Recently, there have been numerous opinion pieces, and even comedy sketches, about women overusing the word “sorry,” both in the workplace, and in their personal lives. However, criticism over another word women apparently have exhausted has surfaced, and it might take a few by surprise. The culprit: “Just” A former Google executive, Ellen Petry Leanse, wrote a piece that was originally published for LinkedIn, and later picked up by Business Insider, about her findings over what Leanse views as a “permission” word.  
North America | United States | Advice

11 Secrets to Success from Top Female Executives

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It's not news that there are more women in high-powered positions than ever before. But while the strides we have made in the past 50 years are huge, there's still a long way to go, and much to learn from those women who have managed to climb to executive positions across the globe. Lauren Ready of the International Consortium of Executive Development Research (ICEDR) recognized this, and decided to go straight to the source. She surveyed 60 of the top female executives around the world to find out exactly how they define success. Ready compiled the results of her study into an eye-opening rep
North America | United States | Advice

25 Famous Women on the Best Advice They’ve Ever Given — or Received

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This week, the Cut is talking advice — the good, the bad, the weird, and the pieces of it you really wish you'd taken. Here, 25 smart women share their most valuable tidbits. Greta Gerwig: "Don't drink all the drinks just because they're free!" Julia Stiles: "Comparison is the thief of joy." Mindy Kaling: "My mom always said, 'You should judge your relationship not by how a guy makes you feel when you’re with him, but by how he makes you feel when you’re not with him.'” Kelly Ripa: "Somebody’s negativity dumped on you is a bigger commentary on how they feel about themse
North America | United States | Advice

Women Apologize for Everything and I’m Sorry About That

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I got a call from a women's magazine the other day asking me for advice on how women could be more efficient in their lives. "What do you do to save time?" they asked me. I asked her what other interviewees had said. "Well," she replied, "there was the physicist who thought it was a good idea to make lunches in advance for her children to take to school." I imagined a subatomic refrigerator filled with seven years' worth of fluffer nutter sandwiches. My husband and I forage for food every night. We are unlikely to be able to pack a brown bag for the next day. What if the next day never come
North America | United States | Advice

Female CEOs Say Dad’s Advice Helped Them Shatter Glass Ceiling

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As a girl growing up in Elberon, New Jersey, Denise Morrison, future chief executive officer of Campbell Soup Co., got a business education from her father. An executive at AT&T, Dennis Sullivan brought home models of the Princess Trimline phone and talked to Denise and her three younger sisters at dinner about product development and marketing. He described new assignments and taught them to write business plans when they wanted something new, like a bicycle, that included the costs of different models. “He was educating us about so many things, from pay for perfor
North America | United States | Advice

How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

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The stressed-out, hair-pulling, kitchen-disaster, screaming-children, sleep-deprived but otherwise successful professional working mom has ventured into trope territory. If you’ve seen the I Don’t Know How She Does It film or read the Allison Pearson novel, you know. But Laura Vanderkam, author of the new time-management book for women, I Know How She Does It  (see what she did there?) says that depiction is fiction and that she has the data to prove it. She also has advice for other professional women on how they can make the most of their time — and still have a good life. For h
South Asia | Australia | Advice

Julia Gillard Tells BBC ‘Newsnight’ Misogynistic Insults Are A ‘Convenient Weapon’ Against Female Politicians

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Julia Gillard advised female politicians to confront gender issues "early," telling BBC’s “Newsnight” on Monday that misogynistic insults can become a “convenient weapon” for political opponents. The former Australian prime minister, who was the first female to hold the country's top office, was asked what guidance she would give Hillary Clinton, who on Saturday officially announced her intention to be the Democratic nominee for the 2016 presidential election and America’s first female commander-in-chief. "I wouldn’t presume to give someone of the long experience of Hillary

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