Category: News
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NAWRB Roaring Thirty Award Nominations Now Open!
The NAWRB Roaring Thirty Awards honor the women leaders in the housing ecosystem making a difference with a seat at the table for women. These are trailblazers succeeding through unprecedented obstacles and demonstrating women’s power as influencers in business.
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NAWRB CEO Shares Shopping Secrets with Leading Women
In preparation for NAWRB’s first Certified Delegate Spokeswoman Training Event, I hit the town last night with the attendees to share my lifelong secrets of collecting clothes at pennies on the dollar to look like a rockstar! Thank you mother for saving me money by never allowing us to buy anything at full price.…
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The Opportunity Cost of a Bad Website
How much is your outdated website or lack of social media presence hurting your business? The recently released Small Business Digital Trends Report from Web.com and Dr. David Ricketts—an Innovation Fellow in the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard—reveals an alarming amount of small business owners fail to optimize their website and leverage the…
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Community College is Now Free in San Francisco
The City College of San Francisco—a two-year public community college—is expected to offer San Francisco residents free tuition beginning Fall 2017. This incredible success for public education would make San Francisco the first city in the United States to provide free community college to its residents regardless of income.
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Even When an Obese Person Loses Weight, Health Problems Could Persist Due to Epigenetics
When an obese person loses weight, he or she immediately starts to feel better. Blood pressure improves, cholesterol levels diminish and energy levels rise. Because that person is no longer obese, the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, as well as liver, colon and breast cancers and other diseases linked to obesity, diminishes, right? That…
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Women and Minorities Stalled on Fortune 500 Boards
A new study from the Alliance for Board Diversity and Deloitte, Missing Pieces Report: The 2016 Board Diversity Census of Women and Minorities on Fortune 500 Boards, reveals that women and minorities hold 31 percent of board seats at Fortune 500 companies, representing a mere increase over the past four years.
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Have Your Book or Movie Featured in NAWRB Magazine!
As our international publication, NAWRB Magazine informs readers of key developments for women in the housing ecosystem. From articles profiling new regulations to interviews with leading executives and an entire section dedicated to new hires and promotions, we showcase women’s power and accomplishments as capable leaders.
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How Should Women Dress?
How people should dress in the workplace has been an ongoing debate for decades, with women’s attire usually being a central topic of discussion. What does dressing like a woman mean to you? Is it acceptable to define a difference on how women should dress in the workplace?
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Is Overtime Futile?
We often view overtime as an opportunity to catch up on our work or get ahead of an approaching deadline. We regard it as a tool to do more with our work day, but does overtime actually contribute to productivity?
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The Athletic Backgrounds of C-suite Women
Today is the 31st National Girls & Women in Sports Day, an annual national observance “celebrating the extraordinary achievements of women and girls in sports.” The theme of this day is Expanding Opportunity, and it supports efforts to increase girls and women’s access to sports. Currently, only 40 percent of high school girls play sports…