Tag: women
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Origins of Hotel Figueroa
Built in the 1920s by the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), the Moroccan-inspired Hotel Figueroa has been a pinnacle of Los Angeles culture and history for nine decades; from housing tourists to hosting movie sets, the establishment has never lost relevance in downtown LA.
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Veterans Day: Honoring Our Nation’s Veterans
It’s Veterans Day and NAWRB would like to thank and celebrate our nation’s veterans for their valiant service to our country. To commemorate our veterans we would like to provide a brief history of this holiday, including some little-known and interesting facts.
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Strengthening the Women’s Culture
“There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” –Madeleine Albright What a profound statement! It is with the same fervor as Madeleine Albright that NAWRB supports other women. Like the first female U.S. Secretary of State, we believe that other women, organizations, companies in the public and private sectors…
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The Momentum of Female Entrepreneurs
Women business owners and their businesses are booming. These enterprises are securing more funding, growing in number and effecting a serious change on the American economy. This week, the Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO) released their Business Outlook survey reporting that the revenue, compensation and staffing for women-owned businesses are growing.
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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.