Category: Great Articles
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WHER Chat: Gender Wage Gap Narrows as Women Acquire Highly Sought-After Skills
According to a recent report by the Pew Research Center, women are making gains in the workplace as they continue to meet the demand of specific skill sets from employers by gaining more skills and earning higher levels of education. Employers in the United States are commonly pursuing workers with social skills, including the art…
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Interview with Meg Epstein Founder & CEO of CA South
Real estate developer Meg Epstein, Founder & CEO of CA South, who was born in California, but calls Nashville, Tennessee home, has over a decade of experience creating efficient, modern lifestyles for people in their homes and neighborhoods. Epstein founded CA South in 2015 with the idea of bringing to Nashville her sense of design…
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Life of a Female Veteran: U.S. Army Combat Pilot Veteran Erica Courtney (part 6 of 6)
If you serve, you understand more than most how life can be taken from you in an instant, so I chose to appreciate living and what lies ahead. This is the last segment in the series but there are still many chapters to write. To recap the first five parts, I joined the Army at…
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WHER Chat: Must-Know Resources to Scale Your Business
Capital is pivotal for the success of any entrepreneur to launch a sustainable and lucrative business. Traditional routes of access to capital are changing as technological development creates new avenues, and the distance between entrepreneur and investor decreases due to an increase in fast and efficient communication. The 2019 NAWRB Women Housing Ecosystem Report (WHER),…
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NAWRB Welcomes Former UPS Vice President Kellie Aamodt to its Diversity & Inclusion Leadership Council (NDILC)
Women in the Housing and Real Estate Ecosystem (NAWRB) announces the addition of Kellie Aamodt, Former Vice President of Corporate Inside Sales at United Parcel Service (UPS), to its Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Council (NDILC), dedicated to raising the number of women leaders and growing women’s employment and empowerment at all levels in the housing…
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Globetrotting NAWRB & DC Finance’s 2019 Family Office Impact
For the past four years, Desirée Patno, CEO & President of NAWRB, has had the honor of representing a voice for the gender lens perspective in the real estate and housing ecosystem at several of the largest events for ultra high net worth individuals, family offices and investors across the globe with one of the…
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FHFA Realigning Agency Structure to Help Enterprises Exit Conservatorship
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) just announced a realignment in their agency structure intended to help them to continue delivering as a regulator of the Enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks, and to ensure that the Enterprises can responsibly exit conservatorship.
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Know the Rules of the Game for Identifying Signs of Human Trafficking – Chicago Girls’ Night Out
Tune in today for an all new episode of Know the Rules of the Game podcast®! Desirée Patno, NAWRB CEO & President interviews Joshua Travers, Executive Director, Private Investigation Manager, Saved In America to discuss the nation’s ongoing epidemic of child exploitation and human trafficking in honor of National Human Trafficking Prevention Month in January.…
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WHER Chat: U.S. Has Highest Rate of Children in Single-Parent Households
A Pew Research Center report reveals that the United States has the highest rate of children living in single-parent households in the world, according to findings from their recent study that reviewed 130 different countries. Twenty-three percent of children in the U.S. under the age of 18, almost a quarter, live with one parent and…
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Know the Rules of the Game® for Empowerment with Hyepin Im
An all new episode of Know the Rules of the Game podcast is now live! Tune in as NAWRB’s CEO & President, Desirée Patno, interviews Hyepin Im, President & CEO of Faith and Community Empowerment (FACE) on all things empowerment in honor of National Mentoring Month.