…to effect change directly. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released new diversity standards, which films must meet both onscreen and behind the scenes starting in 2024 in…
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A Chronic Pain Diagnosis Helped Her Make the Career Change She Needed to Live a Fulfilling Life
…her Marketing & PR firm Visibility Vixen was born. Lewis’ story, as told to The Story Exchange 1,000+ Stories Project: I grew up following my Dad around the world on…
Investigating Hollywood’s ‘Celluloid Ceiling’
…practices and values? We need to have realistic expectations about change. The Story Exchange: When we see prominent female directors (this year, Ava DuVernay and Angelina Jolie) and more box-office…
She’s Helping Women Change Their Relationship to Alcohol
…group recovery meetings where individuals are matched according to the specific challenges they are currently facing. Here’s our lightly edited Q&A, from The Story Exchange 1,000+ Stories Project. How is…
How This High School Entrepreneur Wants to Change Instagram for the Better
Ava McDonald started a business to change the way companies market to teenagers. (Credit: Zfluence) Like many high schoolers, Ava McDonald grew up using Instagram. But when McDonald, an 18-year-old…
Why India’s Women Entrepreneurs Need to Change Their Self-Perception
…But they should also look toward investors and loans or grants. How can a woman surpass these challenges? The need of the hour is for a woman to change her…
100 Years of Power, Part 1: Battle for Suffrage
…important than ever. Ellen DuBois, author of Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote, joins reporter Victoria Flexner to answer this question: How did getting the vote in 1920 change…
Nidhi Pant: A Platform for Farmers
…the only thing that is constant today. All my life I have wanted to usher in change, to be at the Archimedean fulcrum where I am able to effect change…
Karen Ramsay-Smith: Helping Women Find Their Voice
…find out who I really was. I started reading books about how to change my mind and the negative thought habits I had created, and I decided to take time…
Cannabis: An Industry of Promise – and Problems – for Women and Minorities
…staffing firm CannabizTeam. As one can imagine, “that makes it a very challenging climate to do business in,” she says. [Related: Meet the Cannabis Queens: 9 Women in Weed You…
Her PR Firm Has Succeeded By Amplifying Voices That Are ‘Ignored, Dismissed and Muted’
…colleagues and supervisors — despite their own years of experience and accrued expertise. ‘What Will it Take’ To effect change, some in the marketing and PR world are mounting awareness…
SBA to Change Gov’t Contracting Program to Help Women-Owned Businesses
The SBA will make changes to its Women-Owned Small Business Federal Contract Program to help women-owned small businesses get more federal contracts and help the federal government meet and exceed…
Zinah Saleh: Creating Jobs & Supporting Her Fellow Iraqi Women
…Refugee Cause How do you define success? For me success is the ability to change lives and inspire other people. It’s not about how much money you make but how…
Ellen Didier: Red Sage Communications– Passionate About Helping Small Businesses Succeed
…up with the changes in our industry. I am very proud of establishing a company that has not only kept pace with this change, but has grown. What is your…
How About We Focus on Olivia Wilde’s Talents for a Change?
All that the press seems to be interested in is woman director Olivia Wilde’s personal drama – not her Venice Film Festival debut. (Credit: Gage Skidmore, Flickr) By most accounts,…