Haute Hijab Co-founder Melanie Elturk has built a thriving headscarf business by using her personal style and religious convictions to engage an online community of fashionable Muslim-American women.
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Constant Chill Gave This Woman a Hot Business Idea
Jaye Genung always felt cold. By starting Dragon Heatwear to make and sell self-heating coats and gloves, she solved her problem — and struck gold with people she never expected.
Emerge America is Embracing a 50-State Strategy
Amid a surge in blue activism this year, Andrea Dew Steele is expanding Emerge America, which today recruits and trains Democratic women to run for local, state and federal offices in 23 states. Now, she’s going nationwide.
Emily’s List Aims to Seize Its Moment
The 2016 electoral loss to Donald Trump was heartbreaking, but angry Democratic women are planning to run for office in numbers not seen before. Here’s how Emily’s List President Stephanie Schriock plans to turn a female candidate surge into an 2018 electoral wave.
Election 2017: U.S. Women Run Races Big and Small
Voters around the U.S. take to the polls on Tuesday. We take a look at women appearing on ballots from Virginia to Washington state — and explain why these off-year, mostly state and local races matter.
Camille Rumani is Feeding the Modern Social Traveler
Meet the young entrepreneur who co-founded Paris-based company VizEat, whose mobile app connects hungry travelers and local hosts for memorable communal meals.
At the Women’s Convention, Ire, Information and Action Plans
Passionate calls for political action were at the heart of the inaugural Women’s Convention, where thousands of women inspired by January’s Women’s March gathered to learn, network and get busy.
TSE Quick Take: Entrepreneurs at the Women’s Convention Say Don’t Wait Your Turn
Finding community, taking initiative and persevering were major themes among the female entrepreneurs and leaders assembled in Detroit for the Women’s Convention.
Providing A Way Forward From Hate
Angela King, co-founder and deputy director of Life After Hate, helps former white supremacists and members of hate groups become productive members of society. With hate crimes on the rise in the U.S., can she help turn the tide?
TSE Quick Take: How ‘Necessity’ Fuels Female Founders
A new report from the U.S. National Women’s Business Council examines the very definition of “need” when it comes to the reasons why women start businesses.
Meet the Rock Camp Founders Who Are Teaching Much More Than Music
Musicians Mona Tavakoli and Becky Gebhardt created Rock n’ Roll Camp for Girls Los Angeles as a space where Southern Californian girls can rock out and get empowered.
Staying True To Her Roots Lets This Entrepreneur Handle Anything
Lois Hines cofounded Tropic Isle Living 25 years ago to make beauty products using Jamaican black castor oil. Her staying power — even through profound loss — comes from deep ties to her heritage, she says.
A Puerto Rican Founder Relies on Grit to Build a Successful Startup
Today, Julixa Newman runs a growing company, Stuff 4 Multiples, that caters to parents of twins and triplets. But first she had to overcome poverty, homelessness and fertility struggles.
The Sweet Success Story Of A Lawyer Turned Chocolatier
Maggie Callahan built Maggie Louise Confections into a million-dollar venture by offering Instagram-ready custom chocolates that can survive cross-country shipping.
This Designer Couldn’t Find Cute Shipping Boxes. Now Her Startup Makes Them.
Miriam Brafman, the founder of Packlane, saw a huge potential market for customized shipping boxes. Now, her young company provides them to 11,000 brands big and small, and pulls in annual sales exceeding $5 million.