Women

Are women opting out or shut out from career tracks?

A new Harvard Business Review article, " On Ramps and Of...

GE Launches Women's Health Initiative

GE Medical Systems is launching a national tour designed to educate women about the importance of their own health and wellness. The "GE Women's Health & Wellness Tour" will kick off its cross-country journey September 17 in San Francisco. "Empowering women with information about medical screening and prevention is the first step to making a more proactive approach to managing their h...

Research explains why women lack equal access to angel capital

The research, conducted by Jeffrey Sohl, director of the at the University of New Hampshire, examined the equa...

Learning from the big boys: With technology, women urged to go gradual

That was one of the messages to come out of the recent Wisconsin program, where women-owned businesses were encouraged to le...

MATC seeks to turn around falling tech enrollment among women

Over the last decade, the percentage of women in IT careers has declined from a high of 41 percent to 32 percent, said Janet Kelly, communications director for MATC. And at MATC, enrollment of women in IT programs...

Women's entrepreneurial event set for May 21

The all-day event, which will take place at the...

Women entrepreneurs reach for $1M level

Their vision has dollar signs as far as the eye can see, but the result may be a largely untapped source of economic growth - women who want to take their business to t...

More women needed in interface design

in which I vented my frustrations over the general lack of phone-ness on the Cingular 8125. Since that column, most people running start ups to develop mobile phone software and services have been a little sheepish when they come to tell...

GE introduces compact ultrasound system for women

, a $15 billion unit of General Electric Co., has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for the Vol...

Angel fund to focus on women and minority businesses

The Wisconsin Women's Angel Fund, announced by members of the women-led <a href="http://www.phenomenelleang...

Women and Capital: Two words that dont always marry

Whats the market for women entrepreneurs? The market is good for their ideas. Census data show that the number of women-owned businesses and the revenue from them has increased faster than the number of all businesses combined. Women-owned businesses are less likely to fail, too, experts say. Finding money to back a woman-owned business, howevernow, that's a different...

Despite gains, women still face bias in science careers

That, in short, is the conclusion of a g...

Women entrepreneurs are finding ways to succeed in Wisconsin and beyond

At last weeks Wisconsin Entrepreneurs Conference in Milwaukee, most of the headline speakers were successful women with words of advice for everyone on starting or growing a business. They included Kay Koplovitz, a South Mi...

Women in technology confab comes to Wisconsin

Now that spring is in gear, women looking for new directions in technology business are heading to Lake Geneva for a "shorts and tee shirts" alternative to the traditional conference "Everybody has fon...

Unique profiles, anecdotes increase Millionaire Womens net worth

Unlike his previou...

List of Key Midwest Biotech Women Grows

CHICAGO Like the sucessful blues women Bonnie Raitt and Susan Tedeschi, one key differentiating factor in Midwest biotech is the growing presence of a cadre of talented women executives. I identified an initial group in my April 7 column. Since then, I have noticed even more women who make up the fabric of our biotech community. 1) Kathryn Hyer, director of life sciences, <a href="ht...

Women in Midwest IT Have to Fight, Work Harder

CHICAGO - Here is a joke my dad told me (actually, he told it to my 10-year-old daughter and she passed it on): Three guys were walking on a beach and they found a bottle with a cork in it. They opened it up and a genie popped out. "Thanks guys! I was in that bottle for 150 years," the genie says. "I'll grant you each one wish as a thank you for letting me out." So the first guy says: "...