Month: September 2015
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Corporate America Far from Gender Equality
LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company recently released Women in the Workplace, a comprehensive study of 118 companies and 30,000 employees focused on the state of women in corporate America. The study reveals that despite their advancements, women remain largely underrepresented in every sector of the corporate world.
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Diverse Boardrooms Lead to Higher Profit
A recent study by international advisory firm Grant Thornton, titled “Women in Business: the Value of Diversity,” reveals that companies with women in executive roles outperform those with all-male boardrooms. The study included companies from the U.S., U.K. and India focusing on day-to-day business operations, and discovered that companies lacking diversity at the executive level…
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The Need for Inclusionary Housing
As the improving economy allows American cities to renovate and rebuild, existing home prices consequently rise, and in many cities flagrantly price out low-income families. This phenomenon has led to segregated communities, and has behooved inclusionary measures to ensure integration in American neighborhoods.
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Minimum Wage Rise
Just as it is a good time to be an American consumer, it may soon be an increasingly better time to be an American low-income worker.
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NAWRB Rocks!
In the midst of TRID compliance and the diversity and inclusion (D&I) movement NAWRB is thriving. From our 2015 APEX award-winning magazine to our Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Council, our Orange County headquarters are abuzz with engagement.
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Sheri Orlowitz
Founding Partner and President of Artemis Holdings Group, LLC Sheri Orlowitz With over two decades of experience in developing, acquiring and divesting a myriad of companies, Sheri Orlowitz has proven to be a powerhouse woman entrepreneur in male-dominated fields. She reveals to NAWRB her entrepreneurial experience abroad as a delegate for the State Department, strategies…
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The Home Buying Power of Hispanic Women
A recent study released by Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate and The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) reveals that Hispanic women are the epicenter of their demographics’ home buying power. The national survey, which collected data from over 1,000 Latin American and Hispanic women between the ages of 25 and 60,…
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Happy American Business Women’s Day!
Today is American Business Women’s Day which celebrates the achievements and contributions of millions of American working women and women business owners.
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Women’s Limitations in the Workplace
The World Bank has released its report Women, Business and the Law 2016: Getting to Equal, addressing gender equality and the barriers obstructing women in hundreds of countries throughout the world. The report examines 173 economies and collects data across seven categories: accessing institutions, using property, getting a job, providing incentives to work, building credit,…
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Unit for Female Entrepreneurs at National Bank of Fujairah
The National Bank of Fujairah (NBF), a United Arab Emirates bank incorporated in 1982, has developed a specialized unit for female entrepreneurs. NBF Elham will be operated by female Emirati corporate bankers, and will offer corporate banking services and solutions tailored to Emirati businesswomen. The unit will begin working out of NBF’s Al Quoz branch.…