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Pinterest is in the market for female engineers. While the social media network has an overwhelmingly female user base — 71 percent of its 72.5 million users are women, according to comScore — it lacks diversity in its workforce. Expect that to change in 2016.
We’re nearing the dog days of August, which can only mean one thing: time to decide what books to take along on your much needed end-of-summer vacation. To help you out, the Inner Circle has come up with a totally subjective list — and in no particular order — of the 10 best business books...
Here at Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC), we view social media as a means for us to continue the conversation within our community of women retail leaders who believe in the same mission we do — creating an engaging network of smart, inspiring women. We want to make sure you have the opportunity to...
As our online worlds expand, the opportunity for targeted ads and promoted content to infiltrate our Facebook news feeds continues to grow. Algorithms shape the everyday online community we immerse ourselves in — the suggested Facebook friends we should make, the search results we see on Google and the trending news we should be following on Twitter. The data collected is considered objective, at least most of the time. However, as the Internet of Things becomes more prevalent, the research of human influence on these algorithms and big data software says otherwise. As a result, it seems facts do have a bias.
Having just emerged from graduation season, there’s an influx of young people entering the workforce and getting their first taste of the “real world.” Before they left the havens of their college campuses, however, they were imparted with words of wisdom from esteemed commencement speakers at their graduation ceremonies. There aren’t many names that get...
An increasing number of e-tailers are putting down brick-and-mortar roots with "webrooms." Most recently, online jewelry brand and WIRLC favorite BaubleBar announced it's joined the likes of fellow formerly online-only brands Blue Nile, Bonobos, Warby Parker and Birchbox in opening a brick-and-mortar store. BaubleBar's first storefront is in Long Island's Roosevelt Field Mall.
It was announced last week that founding father and U.S. Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton will be replaced on the $10 bill by a woman in 2020 — just in time for the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. It will be the first time in over a century a woman has been featured on...
Brooklyn is the national front-runner for for women-led startups, with 28 percent, 33 businesses in total, reporting to have at least one woman founder. Brooklyn is quickly outpacing other tech-centric cities such as San Francisco (16 percent of startups have at least one woman founder) and Palo Alto, Calif. (12 percent). With companies such as Etsy, MakerBot and Kickstarter all calling Brooklyn home, it's really not surprising. So, why Brooklyn?
In what’s hopefully just a precursor to future career advancement opportunities, last week featured the promotions of several women to C-level positions at leading retail brands. Here’s summary of what occurred: Kelly Cook was named the new chief marketing officer at Kmart, where she will replace Andrew Stein, who exited the role to join Big...
Missed the Fashion Tech Forum (FTF), which was held last week in New York City? Don’t worry, I was there! I’ve condensed the day into seven points you need to know. Here goes:
