Category: Great Articles
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Elder Financial Abuse, Private Wealth – What Are You Doing to Protect Yourself?
Elder financial abuse is a growing problem, leaving destroyed relationships and economic destruction in its wake. From straightforward theft to slow development through complex relationships, the tremendous loss of wealth incurred by senior citizens results in premature deaths and intergenerational loss of wealth. It ultimately rips at the fabric of society as a whole as…
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Government Panel: Consumer & Business Opportunities – News Channel Speakers
There are hundreds of thousands of individuals working in the government, and NAWRB is bringing together government officials representing five different industries and oversight agencies for endless collaboration opportunities during the Government Panel at the upcoming 2019 NAWRB Conference, Redefining Leadership, on August 4th-6th in Pasadena, CA.
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Aug 4th-6th in Pasadena – Meet Our Powerhouse Speakers!
Attendees will get to hear the live interaction of industry veterans during the Mastermind Think-Tank as they discuss important issues and topics in the economic ecosystem, from women on corporate boards to family offices and high net worth individuals.
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Procter & Gamble Donates $529,000 to Support US Women’s Soccer Team’s Equal Pay
In a full page ad in the New York Times, Procter & Gamble, parent company of Secret deodorant brand, announced that it will donate $529,000 to the U.S. Women’s Soccer National Team (USWNT) to help its members achieve equal pay. The company is donating $23,000 for each of the 23 members of the team who…
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World Population to Reach 8 Billion by 2025
Today marks World Population Day, an annual event that has been observed on July 11th every year since 1989. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme, and it seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. Did you know that the world population is currently at 7.58 billion?…
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2019: Women to Be Majority of College-Educated Workforce
We can expect 2019 to be the year that women are the majority of the college-educated workforce, a significant milestone in gender parity, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center. By the first quarter of this year, 29.5 million women in the labor force had at least a bachelor’s degree, which matches…
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California’s Cooling Housing Market: Symptom of National Affordability Issue
The latest UCLA Anderson Forecast of California’s economic and housing market reports that housing will continue to cool into the year 2020 despite current job growth and strong economy. The economists attribute the weakening to falling home prices in major markets and decreased demand. Economists anticipate the demand for housing will decrease in California’s major…
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Road to Gender Equality – Keeping Women Ahead in the Labor Market
For enturies, women have faced injustice and fought for equality to men. Examples of this are in the fight for women’s suffrage beginning in the late 1800s, the inability for women to serve on a jury pre-1919 or for a single woman to open a bank account in her own name as little as roughly…
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Failure for Success in Women’s Leadership
Long ago, I received some leadership advice from a good friend that has continued to resonate within both my work and personal life for years: Take chances. When you fail, admit your failures and learn from them. The fear of failing can be paralyzing, and leaders must do more than fail at random or simply…
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Discrimination in the AI Industry Contributes to Discriminatory AI Systems
A new report from New York University’s AI Now Institute titled Discriminating Systems: Gender, Race and Power in AI highlights the diversity crisis in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) sector and its effect on the development of AI systems with gender and racial biases. The lack of diversity in the AI sector and academia spans across…