I think there is a big opportunity for women who are stay at home moms to still have their own business. The reality is that the best option for many women is to stay at home with their children, and increasingly more women have been starting up online companies.The following is an article covering this topic.
http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2012/4/17/moms_are_building_miniempires_online.htm
Hi guys, this article is also related to our last two discussion board. Please read it, it’s very interesting. This one talk about how women use their feminine atributes to excel in business. Interestingly enough it talks in specific about women communal characteristic and how women have use these to succeed in their businesses.
Thank you.
Hi guys, I found this very interesting article related to our two past discussion board. This one talks about the “all or nothing” mentality and it seems that women pretty much want it all. ” Among the women this working mom knows, a middling career with average success isn’t seen as a compelling tradeoff for missing the childhood years”.
Share your thought in this one guys. Thank you.
I found this article regarding Women Entrepreneurs In The Americas.
Public-private partnerships will focus on small and medium-sized enterprises and address the main barriers women face.
http://www.voanews.com/policy/editorials/americas/Women-Entrepreneurs-In-The-Americas–148004115.html
I’d like to share with you.
Enjoy
Last week an article appeared in The New York Times that really caught my attention. The article, by Frank Bruni, was called ‘Working and Women’, it was written in response to the comment Hilary Rosen made about Mitt Romney’s wife recently and hits on what seems to be the view many people, including myself, currently have about stay-at-home moms.
I’ve always considered myself a feminist at heart but after reading this article I realized my views were way off. Bruni writes about his childhood growing up with a stay-at-home mom. Although his father was the one financially supporting the family his mother was really the one who was running things. She made all the major decisions and took care of the bills as well as the house and kids. He also mentioned how his mother was often criticized by women who did work for wasting her college degree “performing [such a] servile or trivial task”. Her response? “I haven’t turned my back on my education, I use it daily to make my home the center of learning it should be”.
What she said really struck a nerve with me. She, after all, was right. I’ve always thought women can and should do whichever career they choose. Well, what if this career is running an entire household? If a woman chooses to stay home and raise a family we shouldn’t look at it as turning her back on her education or copping out as so many do. She is choosing to be the CEO of her own family business in a sense except what she is choosing is a job where there is no 9 to 5, or vacation days, or pay for that matter. This is a 24/7 and often thankless job yet many women go into it whole heartedly and I think they deserve a lot more praise than just a card on Mother’s Day.
Very interesting. Throughout the class in my opinion we’ve imagine most of the case to be within the USA and the corporate industry here. This articles talks about a women in South Korea thats on the run for presidency.
Dear classmates,
I found very interesting article and wanted to share with you. It is available here:
http://www.women2.org/5-ways-to-get-more-women-in-venture-capital/
Why it is important for more women to enter venture capital? Article says that more women in VC will contribute to growing better, stronger, and more sustainable because women mentor and teach others as partners, not as preachers.
Dear Classmate,
When I found this article I didn’t know what to think of it. Does it benefits women or is it just contributing to the perceptions formed about women being more risk averse? The reason why most businesses exist is because they intend to make a profit.However, shall we care about excessive risk-taking or maintaining lower debts? Which one do you think will contribute to the business longevity?
Please read and share your thoughts on it.
Elizabeth Duran
I found a great social network for women called Levo Leauge, which is a multimedia website where women can find support in the work place including job opportunities, and is something like a linked in focused on women surpassing the glass ceiling. The women who started this website were able to raise 1.25 million in angel investments, and expect to have a range of companies using this including large companies like Aol to smaller non-profits such as pencil of promise. They want to connect women to their dream jobs. I think things such as this website is what will help women transcend the glass ceiling, so I will be following up on this movement. The link for the website is below.
Link: http://www.levoleague.com
