Boss Betty News

08/03/2022

Boss Betty✊: Forgive us, pretty please? It is International Women's Day, after all... - https://mailchi.mp/bossbetty.com/03082022

07/01/2022

Boss Betty✊: Aaand we're back! - https://mailchi.mp/bossbetty.com/01072022

It’s been a year since the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, during which performative masculinity reigned supreme. Female lawmakers still don’t feel safe. Women in Congress who were there that day say that they are still suffering the repercussions, hiring personal security and taking othe...

17/12/2021

Boss Betty✊: Wow, that naughty list is looong - https://mailchi.mp/bossbetty.com/12172021

"To love is to think, and to think is to love." Writer, thinker and intellectual luminary bell hooks passed away this week and we don’t know how to deal. hooks, whose writing spanned race, class and gender, leaves behind a legacy of intersectional feminism that — finally — took into account B...

09/12/2021

Boss Betty✊: In 'it’s about darn time' news, the feds are prioritizing female small biz owners - https://mailchi.mp/bossbetty.com/12092021

In "it’s about darn time" news, the federal government is making female small business owners a priority. Small businesses are struggling during the pandemic, and women-owned businesses face special challenges. The Small Business Administration (SBA) is finally moving its Office of Women’s Busin...

03/09/2021

Aside from fears that Roe v. Wade will be overturned, we're all worried that because of the Texas abortion law, other states will rush to pass similar laws.

21/08/2021

Get our ✨free✨ weekly roundup of feminist news, ranging from the funny (b**b rockets v. Jeff Bezos' ph***ic spacecraft🤣) to the need-to-know stories. https://bossbetty.com/newsletter/

Boss Betty publishes feminist business news, reporting on the work world through the gender lens. We're the only news publication dedicated to women & work.

19/08/2021

Lots to learn in this week's feminist news roundup.

Women in Afghanistan fear for their lives and futures. "I felt like I can no longer laugh out loud," said a female university student in Kabul after the Taliban regained control of the government. The entire world is holding its breath to see if the country will return to the oppression and violence

19/08/2021

Captain Kelly Gordon is the captain of Corporate Retreat, a private 75-foot luxury yacht. This is her story, as told from ports from the Bahamas to Chicago.

06/08/2021

There's a ton of news flying around regarding theagainst Gov. Cuomo, so we figured we'd round it up for you in one place. Convenient, right?

23/07/2021

In the hopes that there will be a gazillion more Wally Funks of all ages headed to space in the near future, we're cooking up a b**b rocket design.

15/07/2021

Images of sweaty white guys straining at their shirtsleeves are no longer what come to mind when conjuring today's union leaders. But are women in the mix?

18/06/2021

It’s raining mediocre men in management, again — read up on how to deal. Plus, Victoria’s Secret is pivoting its brand focus to...female empowerment 🤔?

"Mediocre" men were cited as a major impediment to women in finance by half of those interviewed in a new study on the banking industry.

04/06/2021

In order to channel more of that Venus energy — for those of us non-Grand Slam winners who might for various reasons have somewhat lower reserves of self-confidence — we have some recommendations...

'No matter what you say or what you write, you’ll never light a candle to me.' 🔥🔥🔥 More of that Venus Williams energy, please! When asked how she handles intense media pressure, the tennis superstar answered bluntly, accurately and awesomely: "I know every single person asking me a questi...

06/05/2021

How it started: We're reopening! 🎉
How it's going: We see the concerns...😡

Ex-employees of The Wing say that it has not addressed their history of racism and discrimination and

17/04/2021

In this week's ✊Boss Betty✊ newsletter, we discuss horrific medical terms like 'incompetent cervix,' plus live vicariously through this woman who took a mop to her boss after she accused him of sending harassing texts. Never a dull moment!

Gendered language really gets our goat 🐐 Is it just us or is it actually batsh*t crazy that, thanks to the male-dominated fields of science and medicine, female patients have for gagillions of years had to endure terms like "inhospitable womb" and "lazy uterus"? We were happy to read Mashable's r...

12/04/2021

In this feminist version of "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" we’re gumshoes🕵️‍♀️ for ACME Detective Agency tracking down instances of patriarchal malfeasance around the world🔎...

We noticed that a lot of the headlines circulating this week about women and work were coming from beyond the boundaries of our usual geographic purview, AKA the U.S. of A. So we decided to play a Boss Betty version of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? in which we're gumshoes for ACME Detective

03/04/2021

268 adorable puppy pics that — oh wait, sorry, wrong newsletter — 268 years to close the $$$ gender gap. Extra, extra, get your free weekly dose of alllll the news!

Yes, friends, we're here to talk about the fresh-out-of-the-oven depressing-as-heck new estimates of how long it will take to close the global economic gender gap. It will now take 267.6 years to close, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said in its annual gender gap report, released this week. The repo

25/03/2021

Here we are, 25 years after the first official Equal Pay Day — the date women have to work into the current year to make what men did the previous year — and the gap has narrowed only 8 cents.

Because sharing is caring ❤️❤️❤️ — we believe that we can all learn from our collective experiences — we would love to hear your pay gap stories and possibly "print" them in our Friday newsletter. We're happy to keep your stories anonymous — let us know if that's your preference. Message us or email [email protected].

Cute that a year ago we asked, "What will post-pandemic, Equal Pay Day 2021 look like?" And here we are, still very much in the pandemic, still so unequal.

24/03/2021

It's , the "holiday" we can't wait to get rid of! Women had to work from Jan. 1 of last year until today to make what the average white man did in 2020. Send us a message with your gender pay gap stories below or email them to [email protected] (let us know if you want to remain anonymous) — sharing is caring

20/03/2021

Would E.T. report back to their home planet that Earth was uninhabitable for women? Honestly, that’s our feeling as we continue to digest the news from the past several days...

Would E.T. report back to their home planet that Earth was not meant for women? Honestly, that's our feeling as we continue to digest the news from the past several days. There is the heartbreaking and terrifying and rage-inducing massacre of seven women in Georgia, six of them of Asian descent, to

17/03/2021

POP QUIZ! How much do you know about the women responsible for some of humankind's biggest scientific breakthroughs? Let's find out... 🧪🧬🦠🩺🔬🔭

Women throughout history have made crucial scientific breakthroughs, yet their names are far less well-known than those of their male counterparts.

08/03/2021

Happy International Women's Day! That's obvi EVERY day at Boss Betty, but we love that every year on March 8, the whole world gets on board✊ 🌎. Check out our guide to the excellent resources Lean In and Catalyst have put together to help everyone fight workplace bias👇.

Challenge gender bias in the workplace, and celebrate Women's History Month, with these solutions-oriented plans to take action against bias.

03/03/2021

As the incoming CEO of financial services company TIAA, Thasunda Brown Duckett will be only the third Black woman in history to lead a Fortune 500 firm.