Women-owned businesses generate $68K less than men’s: survey
Professor Becky Reuber notes for CTV news that when you compare the performance of similar businesses owned by men and women, there is no difference in performance.
Listen to local women
Rachael Goodman and Sarah Kaplan write for The Mark News about why many women find more value in building social networks and confidence than economic empowerment. (This piece was also picked up by the Helsinki Times, Japan Today, The City Paper Bogota, and the Peruvian Times.)
Women-focused co-working spaces increase in Canada
Sarah Kaplan weighs in on women's only co-working spaces in Canada with CBC news.
The challenges and contradictions in women’s entrepreneurial labour
This study argues that the concept of entrepreneurship, as it applies to women’s work, masks many of the uncertainties and contradictions that accompany being one’s own boss while working at home.
Beyond the Business Case: The startup ‘gender problem’
In Episode 2 of "Beyond the Business Case," MBA Student Fellow, Vanessa Ko, interviews ZJ Hadley form Tulip Retail about diversity in the startup world.
Women’s co-working space The Wing set to open first location in Canada next year
Sarah Kaplan speaks to The Globe and Mail about the prospect of a new "women's only" co-working space opening up in Toronto.
The benefits of raising daughters: Increasing gender diversity in venture capital
The subtle elimination of bias in hiring decisions (in this case, via lifelong exposure to gender diversity through raising daughters) is both good for its own sake, and for firm performance.
Women in STEM: A panel discussion
In honor of International Women's Day, we held a panel discussion on Women in STEM with Huda Idrees, Founder and CEO of Dot Health; Andrea Stairs, CEO of eBay Canada; Marisa Sterling, Assistant Dean, Inclusivity and Diversity at the Lassonde School of Engineering; Jessica Yamoah, Founder of Innovate Inclusion.
Crowdfunding as activism
Why more women support female founders online and in underrepresented industries
Holding up half the sky
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Sarah Kaplan and GATE post doc Rachael Goodman write about improving the effectiveness of women's empowerment programs by involving men. (Part 1 of a 5-part series with SSIR.)