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Growing Your Business

If you’re looking for opportunities to grow your business, Businessweek has a great article that includes a variety of resources for women and minority entrepreneurs.

New books for professional women

We don’t love the Wall Street Journal’s lack of women-written op-eds, but we do like their recent review of books for professional women:

How Remarkable Women Lead (Crown Business, 2009) by Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston
Women, Work and the Art of Savoir Faire (Atria Books, 2009) by Mireille Guiliano (on our “Books We Want to Read” [...]

Career 2.0: Are Your Social Media Profiles Career-Ready?

What does your online professional image look like? In other words, when prospective employers search for you on social networking sites—and almost 50% do—what are they likely to find out?

If you can’t answer this question definitively or if you feel the slightest bit of unease, it may be worthwhile for you to do a quick review and re-adjustment of your social media profiles. Below are some ideas you can use to get your social networking identity career-ready:

Groups We Love: Pink Ladder

Pink Ladder is an organization focused on the professional development of African-American women. Founded in 2006, their mission is summed up in this catchphrase: “Ascend. Celebrate. Inspire.” Earlier this year, Pink Ladder hosted its first annual “Step Up” conference featuring professional women, celebrities, politicos and community leaders. We hope to hear more from them in [...]

Professional Women in Asia Take Center Stage

As companies develop their future leaders, Asian women are an excellent option, but work remains to be done. BusinessWeek.com’s special report focuses on what companies and Asian women can do to facilitate their professional development.

15 Minutes + 5 Things

If you’ve got 15 extra minutes in your day, here are 5 different things you can do (we suggest picking one, you overachievers!):

1. Phone it in. Add telephone numbers from your recent call list into your phone’s contact list or address book.

We like Citysaheli.com

We like Citysaheli.com, a really cool site geared toward South Asian women. Read up on the the latest eco-friendly shoes, learn more about the tradition of Mehndi, get the scoop on the upcoming 1st Annual Asian MBA Conference, or find out about the latest beauty treatments. A very hip resource for not only South Asian [...]

Black hair du jour

Black women’s hair is the topic du jour: Time has an article on Michelle Obama’s hair, while the New York Times has a story on the politics of Black women’s hair. Their interactive interview with 9 Black women about their hair choices is also worth checking out. We’re not sure this is the most important issue [...]

News Roundup – End of August

Check out a few of the latest in news headlines related to women of color:

1. AT&T gives $250K to fund women of color entrepreneurs in California

Women of Disgrasian take on Marie Claire

Marie Claire recently published an article on “Asian Trophy Wives” and were promptly checked by two very savvy commentators whose handle is: Disgrasian. Sounds ominous. Check out their smackdown of the popular women’s magazine.

Latina Leaders

We’ve just learned about the National Association of Latina Leaders, a non-profit organization focused on economic and workplace issues for Hispanic women. Check out their site here.

Women of color attorneys continue to face challenges in the legal profession

Catalyst has released a new study, Women of Color in U.S. Law Firms, as part of its Women of Color in Professional Services Series on professional women of color. The research determined that women of color generally experienced more stereotyping on the basis of race and gender than their white female counterparts, the feeling of being an “outsider”, diminished professional development opportunities, and a lack of candid feedback.