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Entrepreneurship stories
'He/Him Salary' & hidden barriers still hold women back
Today
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hcm
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hybrid & remote work
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'He/Him Salary', hidden networks and biased hiring still block women's careers and pay, business leaders warn ahead of International Women's Day.
From optics to outcomes: What real progress for women in tech looks like
Yesterday
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fintech
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risk & compliance
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healthtech
Women in tech win visibility but little venture capital; real progress demands funding that follows performance, not familiar faces.
International Women's Day 2026: Death by a thousand qualifications
Yesterday
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fintech
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hcm
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risk & compliance
On International Women's Day 2026, women in fintech expose an “authority gap” where progress on paper masks bias in daily decisions.
Fintech must match tech progress with true inclusion
Yesterday
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digital transformation
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crypto
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fintech
Women in fintech say inclusion tech is advancing faster than culture, warning against hollow celebration while pushing for real structural change.
International Women's Day: The Australian entrepreneur proving you don't have to scale fast to succeed
Yesterday
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cx
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martech
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e-commerce
Ahead of IWD 2026, Craft Club's Nakisah Williams champions slow, sustainable growth over blitzscaling as a new model of female leadership.
International Women's Day - women, confidence, and the credit gap
Yesterday
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fintech
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cx
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martech
Ahead of International Women's Day, new research exposes how shattered confidence, bias and complexity fuel a stubborn credit gap for women.
Style, substance, and strategy: Drawing similarities between pageantry and PR
Yesterday
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partner programmes
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clean technologies
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marketing
From runway to boardroom, Australia's pageant stage doubles as a high-stakes PR lab for purpose-driven personal branding in 2026.
Start training for a job that doesn't exist yet
Yesterday
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data analytics
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data science
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management
On International Women's Day, a data leader urges young women to train for unseen careers, valuing curiosity and pivots over rigid plans.
You have to give to gain: Why I view mentorship as a force multiplier
Yesterday
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leadership
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flexible work
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engineering
On International Women's Day, a telecom leader argues that mentorship lets women give to gain, multiplying influence across STEM.
Building in public: Why women entrepreneurs need visibility as much as capital
Yesterday
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social media
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iwd
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opinion
Women founders are closing the start-up gap, but with VC still lagging, visibility and public storytelling are now vital growth capital.
How do we patch the leaky bucket of women leaving venture capital?
Yesterday
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hcm
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leadership
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flexible work
One in four women has left venture capital in five years, spurring calls for data-driven fixes to stalled careers and leaky retention.
Canada urged to back women in STEM to power AI growth
Yesterday
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edutech
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digital transformation
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hyperscale
Canada's tech leaders say closing the gender gap in STEM is vital to ethical AI and digital growth, urging targeted support for women.
Women in tech & finance call for systems to catch up
2 days ago
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digital transformation
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fintech
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erp
Women in tech and finance say workplaces must be redesigned, with data-led accountability and digital finance access to match women's ambitions.
International Women's Day: If women are not shaping AI, they will be shaped by it
2 days ago
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digital transformation
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fintech
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hcm
As AI reshapes work and life, women must be empowered to build and question it, or risk being defined by systems they did not design.
Why closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship is key to unlocking growth
2 days ago
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zendesk
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ict sector
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iwd
With women-led start-ups securing just 2.3% of 2024 VC funds, Cristina Fonseca says closing tech's gender gap is vital for growth.
From video games to AI visibility: How women in tech can build authority through PR
2 days ago
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gaming
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martech
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partner programmes
From gaming roots to AI-era PR, women in tech can turn media visibility into authority, unlocking investors, customers and influence.
Ottawa backs Atlantic Canada AI with CAD $8.5M fund
3 days ago
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edutech
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robots
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agricultural technology
Ottawa is investing CAD $8.5M in 40 Atlantic Canada projects to speed AI adoption, boost exports and drive regional productivity gains.
Mastercard fund backs Canadian women small businesses
3 days ago
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payment technologies
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mastercard
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smb
Mastercard opens 2026 fund in Canada, offering CAD $10,000 grants and support to help women-owned small firms grow amid economic uncertainty.
Canadian small business sales see sharp 2025 slump
3 days ago
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data analytics
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fintech
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planning
Canadian small business sales sank 4.1% in late 2025, the sharpest quarterly slump since 2020, as uncertainty and supply shocks hit demand.
AI, women in tech & why progress demands a human lens
4 days ago
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digital transformation
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ai
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it industry
As AI reshapes tech, women still battle entrenched bias; only a deliberately human lens can turn this revolution into real inclusion.