Career Archives - Women You Should Know®

8 Things You Should Know About Elizabeth Holtzman, Pioneering Politician And Serial Glass Ceiling Smasher

wyskAugust 11, 2018

"Politics helps determine the kind of society we’d like to live in. When women aren’t an equal participant in that conversation, it has real-world consequences."...

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 25 Years As A Justice And Still As Supreme As Ever

wyskAugust 10, 2018

"Ruth Bader Ginsburg entered a legal world where the best jobs were off-limits to women and emerged as a Supreme Court Justice."...

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93QUEEN… New Doc Follows Hasidic Women Creating NYC’s First All-Female Volunteer Ambulance Corps

wyskJuly 23, 2018

Set in the Hasidic community of Borough Park, Brooklyn, 93QUEEN follows Rachel "Ruchie" Freier, "a no-nonsense Hasidic lawyer and mother of six who is determine...

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Healing Ink: Tattoo Artist Runs Fund For Post-Mastectomy Patients Seeking Nipple/Areola Repigmentation

wyskJuly 17, 2018

Ten years into mastering her craft, award-winning tattoo artist Amy Black began working in nipple and areola tattooing, and founded the Pink Ink Fund....

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Generations: The Story of Women in Neutrino Research

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 11, 2018

The most powerful force in the study of physics is not gravity or electromagnetism. It is not love, or courage. It is accounting. "But that doesn't qui...

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Women Killing It: Candice Hughes, Pharma/Biotech Entrepreneur, PhD, MBA, On Grit, Persistence And Failure

Sally HubbardJuly 2, 2018

"You don’t have to be perfect. You just have to be present. How you are is good enough." - Candice Hughes In this episode of the Women Killing It! podcast, h...

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Mattel Launches Robotics Engineer Barbie To Inspire Girls to Explore STEM and Learn To Code

wyskJune 27, 2018

Yesterday, Barbie announced the launch of its new career Barbie for 2018… Robotics Engineer Barbie. The new doll is designed to "pique girls' interest in STEM a...

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History-Making Plumber Campaigns To Fund Her Nonprofit’s First Construction Skills Summer Camp For Girls

wyskJune 20, 2018

Fact: women make up less than 4% of skilled laborers in the U.S. construction industry (9% of the industry, overall). "It’s an unacceptable imbalance that has e...

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Women Killing It: Business Strategist And Author RM Harrison On Her Secret To Meaningful Success… Plan To Pivot

Sally HubbardJune 13, 2018

"You don’t have to stick with just one thing, you don’t have to settle for a business that isn’t satisfying for you." - RM Harrison In this episode of the Wo...

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