Leadership
BPW Cameroon Congress Turns Women's Business Barriers Into a Federation Test
BPW Cameroon's first national congress in Douala puts finance, professional development and federation-building on the same agenda.
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Work & Careers
The job, the path and the conditions around it.
Startups
Wetech 2026 Turns Lagos Into a Capital Room for Women Building AI
Wetech 2026 linked AI, capital and leadership with a PitchHer funding outcome for women-led startups in Lagos.
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Leadership
SpeakIn's Singapore Base Turns Founder Geography Into a Growth Strategy
Deepshikha Kumar Anand's SpeakIn profile shows how a Singapore headquarters can become part of a regional trust and expansion strategy.
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Women in Business
WEDO Canada Puts AI Tools Into the Growth Plan for Women Entrepreneurs
WBE Canada's WEDO summit series puts AI, automation and practical tools into a six-city growth calendar for women entrepreneurs.
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Leadership
Pollinate Impact Turns Women-in-Climate Support Into a Practical Exchange
Pollinate Impact's Global Potluck session asks ecosystem actors to rethink support for women climate entrepreneurs by stage, context and need.
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Work & Careers
PowHERful Conversations Puts Reinvention and Returner Talent in the Same Room
Untapped Potential founder Candace Freedenberg joins a Greater Valley Chamber WIN Council conversation on reinvention, returner talent and business community.
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Work & Careers
Female FutureTech Summit Makes Founder Coaching Part of the Trade-Fair Floor
Female FutureTech Summit brings women in STEM onto Stuttgart's trade-fair floor, pairing AI, quantum and industry themes with founder and career coaching.
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Leadership
Sister Leaders Conference Puts AI and Profit Inside Purpose-Led Leadership
Portsmouth’s Sister Leaders Conference framed AI, profit, leadership and purpose as connected work for women building businesses, teams and nonprofit missions.
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Work & Careers
AMPLIFY Conference Brings Women Leaders to Pflugerville for Business, Wealth and AI Work
AMPLIFY Conference in Pflugerville brought entrepreneurs, executives and community leaders together around leadership, business development, wealth-building and AI.
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Startups
Female Mavericks Founders Make Motherhood Part of the Operating Model
Beth Mazza and Victoria Sivrais have put a sharper business frame around a familiar founder question: what changes when motherhood is treated as part of the operating model, not as an obstacle the business has to quietly work around?
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Work & Careers
Women in Optometry Conference Turns Connection Into Leadership Practice
Women In Optometry’s eighth annual Women’s Leadership Conference closed in Anaheim with a useful message for professional women: connection is not a soft extra when the job already demands clinical skill, business judgement and personal resilience. It is part of how leadership works.
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Startups
Arrowhead's Women's Entrepreneurship Summit Turns Founder Advice Into Live Strategy
Arrowhead Center's Las Cruces summit moves women-founder support from broad encouragement into live pitch feedback, strategy circles and practical market-positioning work.
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Leadership
Empowering Women in Industry Opens Around Growth Without Burnout
The New Orleans conference links women's industrial leadership to operating support, stronger networks and the business systems needed to grow without burning out.
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Work & Careers
Women in Tech 2026 Turns AI Anxiety Into Practical Career Infrastructure
Ann Arbor's Women in Tech 2026 turns AI, mentorship and startup access into practical career infrastructure for women navigating fast-changing technology work.
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Work & Careers
Military Spouse Career Summit Frames Mobility as a Workforce Asset
The National Military Spouse Network summit reframes career mobility, underemployment and portable work as business issues rather than personal shortcomings.
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Leadership
Gail Boudreaux Leads Top Woman-Run Global 500 Company as Female CEO Count Hits Record 34
Gail Boudreaux's Elevance Health is the highest-ranking woman-led company on the 2026 Fortune Global 500, as the number of women running Global 500 companies reaches a record 34.
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Leadership
Amy Held Joins Conagra in New Chief Administrative Officer Role From September
Conagra Brands has appointed Amy Held as executive vice president and chief administrative officer, creating a new senior role that brings human resources, corporate communications and chief-of-staff responsibilities under one leader.
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Women in Business
Heather Ripley's Ripley PR Wins TITAN American Business Award for Reins Campaign
The Knoxville agency founded by Heather Ripley took silver in the inaugural 2026 TITAN American Business Awards for a campaign that made complex equity tools legible to home-service owners.
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Leadership
Suvarna Hegde's Iron Lady Community Brings Walk to the Board 2026 Across Six Indian Cities
More than 1,000 women leaders, professionals and aspiring C-suite executives joined Iron Lady's six-city Walk to the Board 2026 programme built around board readiness.
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Work & Careers
Society of Women Engineers Mentor Network Runs August Career Push for Women in Engineering
SWE's Mentor Network is running a late-July to early-August mentoring window, offering women in engineering structured access to career conversations.
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Work & Careers
Henri' Dawes Named Top Phoenix Woman Leader for Talent Development at Achieve
The Women Leaders Association recognition highlights the unglamorous systems work that decides whether employees actually advance.
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Leadership
50/50 Women on Boards Names 50 Board-Ready Women as Succession Pressure Builds
The 2026 cohort of 50 Women to Watch for Boards was chosen from 314 applications, putting a vetted pipeline in front of nominating committees.
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Women in Business
MileOne Women Entrepreneurs Rock Series Builds Business Support for Laredo Founders
MileOne's PNC-backed series links founder visibility in Laredo to coworking, incubator and cross-border support for women-owned businesses.
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Work & Careers
BlackRock, Carhartt, Ford and Google Launch Skilled Trades Alliance as 2.1 Million Jobs Could Go Unfilled
A new alliance from BlackRock, Carhartt, Ford and Google makes skilled-trades training a current careers story with direct relevance for women entering nontraditional work.
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Health
Flo Health Study Finds One in Three U.S. Women Over 35 Unsure About Perimenopause Stage
A Flo Health study of 7,640 U.S. women found 34 percent of those aged 35 and older were unsure of their reproductive stage, with uncertainty highest among women aged 40 to 44 approaching perimenopause.
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Work & Careers
PublisHer Studio Opens First Global Cohort for Women Building Publishing Careers
PublisHer has launched PublisHer Studio, a free eight-week online learning programme for 20 women working in or entering the publishing industry.
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Work & Careers
Women Future Webinar Urges Business Leaders to Train Teams for AI at Work
The Women Future Webinar series has turned AI strategy into a work and leadership story for women entrepreneurs and executives, warning that delaying practical AI adoption is its own business risk.
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Startups
Charlotte Louis Pivots SenterME Into Healthcare Workforce Intelligence in Raleigh
Raleigh founder Charlotte Louis is repositioning SenterME from a consumer wellness app into a B2B healthcare workforce intelligence platform that helps employers spot burnout risk before it disrupts care.
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Money
Atlantic Canada Gender Pay Report Shows Women Still Earn Less in Every Province
A new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives report finds women in every Atlantic Canadian province still earn less than men, with the gap widening for racialized, Indigenous, immigrant and disabled women.
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Work & Careers
The career pivot playbook: changing direction without starting over
A pivot is not a fresh start. It's a re-use of what you already know, applied to a new problem. That distinction changes how you plan it.
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Work & Careers
Workplace flexibility is not a perk — it's infrastructure
Treating flexibility as a benefit to be granted misses the point. For a lot of workers, it's the thing that makes the rest of the job possible.
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Work & Careers
The mental load at work, and what to do about it
The unseen administrative weight of keeping a team functioning falls unevenly. Naming it is the first step to redistributing it.
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