Back in 2015, Jules Miller, founder of dietary supplements firm The Nue Co., was so ill that she had internal bleeding.
“I [Jules Miller] was exhausted, bloated, I wasn’t living a normal life anymore. That’s when I started to think about food,
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November 29, 2021
Our Friends:
We want to report some good news as well as a challenge requiring attention, yours and ours.
First, the good news.
According to the GEM 2020/21 Women’s Entrepreneurship Report, released last week,
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On Tuesday, November 16th GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) will be releasing their 2020-2021 Women’s Entrepreneurship Report. This report will provide an overview of the current issues that women face in the global business arena, as well as detailing, “areas where there are still gaps,
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October 15th, 2021 was International Day of Rural Women. This day of recognition is acknowledged annually by the United Nations, and each year it has a theme. In 2021 the theme was “Rural women cultivating good food for all.”
“Improving the lives of rural women is key to fighting poverty and hunger,”
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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far it is possible to go.”
-T.S. Eliot
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a grueling and wearisome time for everyone. When so much about a potential future post the global pandemic was uncertain for so long,
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“When women support each other, incredible things happen.”
-Anonymous
Among the global women entrepreneur community, a mentorship is an invaluable tool. Learning from a mentor that has gone where you want to go is frontline knowledge, unlike any other resource.
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“It is important for women to take on leadership roles. Our experience of running community kitchens during the pandemic has shown that women are not only beneficiaries but frontline workers in crises.”
-Anjana Vaidya, a Programme Associate at UN Women Nepal.
With the support of UN Women and the Government of Finland,
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After making a promise to consumers in June 2020 that they would create a line of Black and Brown bandages to serve the diversity of our world, BAND-AID® has finally launched this line. In their announcement, BAND-AID explained,
“We are committed to launching a range of bandages in light,
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“I want to show the local communities that female business is doable, female business is possible...[and that success is] possible without any stigmas or stereotypes.”
-Tatyana Mikayilova, POWER trainer and educator
Since March 2019, the U.S.
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The earlier shock over the Norwegian female beach handball players at the Olympics being fined for daring to declare that they felt better in tiny spandex shorts rather than tinier bikini bottoms (and act on their own desires) was not revisited because handball is only an Olympics Youth sport,
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