South Africa is the world’s seventh largest producer of wine. The wine industry accounts for 4.6 percent of the Western Cape’s GDP and is the nation’s biggest permanent employer in agriculture. However, the industry is almost exclusively filled with wine companianes owned and operated by white men.
Read MoreThis is not your father’s military.
The Naval Academy’s Class of 2020 will represent the largest enrollment of women in the Academy’s 171-year-long history, Meredith Newman reported recently in Military.com. The news that these 331 young women, roughly 33 percent of the incoming class, will set a new precedent comes just as the Naval Academy celebrates 40 years of women being in enrollment.
Read MoreCome October, the capital of my home state of Arizona will appoint Jeri Williams as the first female Chief of Police in the city’s history. She will also be the second African American to hold the position in Phoenix.
Read MoreWhen I was about 10 years old, six-time Olympic medalist Amanda Beard visited my community swim team. We all sat by the pool as she passed around one of her medals and spoke to us about discipline, passion, hard work and the importance of giving it your all.
Read More‘Tis the season of the summer internship for many. If you are lucky and are in college or recently graduated, there’s a good chance you’re either neck-deep into your internship or are looking to start one soon.
Read MoreThat diversity and inclusion are key components of success in business is no surprise. That diversity in workplace efforts across all sectors are critical for women to get in the door is also no surprise.
Read MoreWe all know what it means to have someone on our side. We’ve all known someone in our lives who has pushed us to new doors of opportunity, someone who has shown us perspectives we otherwise would have never seen, who has answered our questions, and helped us tap into potential we never knew was there.
Read MoreIf you’re anything like us, you were also jumping for joy when you heard that UN Women Goodwill ambassador Emma Watson gave us one doozy of a New Year’s present: a feminist book club dubbed “Our Shared Shelf.”
Read MoreA new finding by Harvard PhD candidate Heather Sarsons is making waves in the world of economics, particularly in the world of published women economists.
Read MoreIf you’re like me, and you’ve always been more of a Colbert Report connoisseur than a Daily Show devotee, there’s a good chance you hadn’t even heard of late night’s newest kid on the block until recently. But it has been impossible to escape one name as of late: Samantha Bee.
Read MoreUnsurprisingly, men’s professional sports have historically been a boy’s club. However, in a sweep of groundbreaking new hiring decisions, 2015 became the year all that began to change. As Elliott Almond outlined in the LA Daily News, Becky Hammon first opened the door in 2014 when she was hired as the first woman assistant coach in the NBA. Then, in the summer of 2015, the Sacramento Kings got female assistant coaches trending by hiring former WNBA coach and Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman. The NFL followed suit when Sarah Thomas became the first full-time female official and the Arizona Cardinals hired coaching intern Jen Welter for their training camp. Baseball also saw progress with Justine Siegal as a guest instructor for the Oakland A’s, making her the first female coach in MLB history, and Jessica Mendoza broke into the world of men’s sports commentary as an analyst for “Sunday Night Baseball” and then covered the ESPN College World Series from the booth.
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