Tag Archives: Motherhood

Should a VC Take a Chance on a Pregnant CEO?

Paige Craig, an angel investor and cofounder and CEO of BetterWorks, has admitted to a thought that is no doubt prevalent but rarely admitted in public:

“A pregnant founder/CEO is going to fail her company.”

That thought nearly stopped him from investing in a crowd-sourced funding company in L.A. called Profounder, headed by two women, one of whom he found out was expecting. Click here to read his "confession" and Jessica Jackley's response. A rare opportunity to see what so many businesspeople are really thinking but not saying when it comes to women, family, and work. Image credit: Creative Commons/ChepeNicoli@flickr.com

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An Ounce of Prevention, or a Pound of Anxiety?

This post originally appeared on the Thinking Campaigns blog of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR. By Lisa Vanella In the “Gender Shift” report, we talk about mothers today and the “copious amounts of guilt” they heap on themselves (and how the media and prominent figures stoke that guilt). Adds the report: “Mothers have been blamed for everything from the rise in childhood obesity to increased rates of attention deficit disorder and autism.” Here’s what we said earlier this year about an angst- and guilt-riddled medical decision mothers today are facing:
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Sheryl Sandberg: Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions--and offers three powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suite.

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Why Women Will Never Be Happy

By Holly Ward Millennial women are a generation like no other. The adult years have been spent in the age of the digital revolution. They are used to creating their own content, their own life paths, and their own rules. No one tells millennials what to do anymore and there are no roles expected of them. But to me one of the most interesting challenges facing young women today is the backlash of the "have it all" culture. It appears this has created a generation of people who prize love above all else. In a study by Euro RSCG a third of women polled said that love and friendship was the definition of happiness.

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