‘We wanted to create a monster global sisterhood of amazing women who have each other’s backs.’ Old Boys’ Networks have been the invisible scaffolding on which high-flying men have build their careers for centuries. Debbie Wosskow and Anna Jones – high-flyers themselves as both executives and entrepreneurs – decided it…
In the 1960s, Professor Laurence Peter articulated the famous Peter Principle: that an employee in a hierarchy tends to be promoted to ‘his level of incompetence’. As he looked at the evidence of women outperforming men throughout education and into the workplace, in the face of the ongoing gender pay…
“People feel like, if they haven’t been ‘chosen’, then ‘Who am I to write a book?’… I just think: don’t wait to be chosen. If this is something you want to do, just do it.” Denise Duffield-Thomas, author of Lucky Bitch, helps women overcome their hang-ups about money. In this…
Rebecca Jones was told at school that she’d better hope she made ‘pretty babies’, because she’d never amount to anything. She left aged 16 with a handful of non-academic O-levels to her name. By her mid-twenties she was running her second company, and now she’s a world-famous expert in training…
Julia Pimsleur was angry. The statistics on women’s business success – only 4% of venture capital goes to women-run businesses, and only 3% of all women entrepreneurs ever reach $1m in revenue – appalled her and she thought someone should do something about this. It was something of a shock…
