Category: Women
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S&P Capital IQ Releases Scorecard for Women-Owned Businesses
As NAWRB has covered in previous blog posts, women-owned businesses remain disadvantaged throughout the business sector. This is particularly true in regards to access to capital, as women business owners struggle to obtain loans for their businesses. There have been recent developments eradicating these difficulties for women-owned businesses, such as the power of sole source…
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Women’s Retirement
A recent study from Financial Finesse, a California-based financial wellness company, reports that women fall short of the money they need for retirement. For the study, “Using an example of a median 45-year-old man and woman, the Think Tank looked at median incomes, deferral rates, retirement savings, life expectancies, and projected healthcare costs to determine…
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an international health campaign dedicated to increasing the awareness of the disease and fundraising for breast cancer research. Breast Cancer Awareness Month was founded in 1985 by the American Cancer Society and Imperial Chemical Industries in an effort to advocate mammography as the most effective course of action when…
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Happy National Women’s Small Business Month!
October is National Women’s Small Business month! Join NAWRB, the National Women’s Business Council (NWBC), the Small Business Administration (SBA) and many other organizations in celebrating our women small business owners.
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Best Workplaces for Women
This week, Fortune and Great Place to Work released their inaugural 100 Best Workplaces for Women list. For the report, Great Place to Work surveyed over 130,000 women from more than 600 companies who responded to a thorough questionnaire concerning, “everything from the fairness of their company’s promotions, to who has access to information and…
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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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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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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.