Takeaways from our Fearless Focus conversation on leadership By Emily Kestel For our first Fearless Focus event of the year, the Business Record talked with five Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame honorees about their experiences in leadership, the successes they’ve Read more…
By Suzanna de Baca, president and CEO, Business Publications Corp. In 1900, only 6% of married women worked outside the home, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Without the ability to earn money of their own or the right to Read more…
By Laura Howe, regional banking director, Wells Fargo For nearly all small business owners, business ownership is a labor of love. Yet running a business with your loved one can bring on additional challenges that may take all the romance Read more…
By Lakeisha McVey I was raised in Des Moines in a low-income family that struggled with homelessness and housing instability. I have dedicated my career to advocating for anti-poverty policies, so I have a deep personal and professional understanding of Read more…
By Emily Kestel, Fearless editor Women’s involvement and representation in the field of finance and money management is growing, thanks to a variety of factors. To start, women generally live longer than men. Roughly 70% of the assets in U.S. Read more…
Thoughts ahead of Fearless Focus event on leadership By Emily Kestel As part of last year’s Fearless Focus event on leadership, panelists talked about the personal and systemic barriers that women leaders continue to face and what can be done Read more…
By Suzanna de Baca, president and CEO, Business Publications Corp. More than 1,000 Iowans from across the state gathered in Des Moines April 6-8 for three days of poetry readings and workshops at a new event called Poetry Palooza. I Read more…
Annual Fearless survey: Awareness of gender equity issues is improving post-pandemic, now action needs to happen By Emily Kestel There may never be a definitive answer to what gender equity truly looks like in practice. Countless factors are at play Read more…
By Rachel Manuel Bruns While we see regular news coverage about challenges accessing maternal health care in Iowa and the related racial disparities, I rarely see the mention of higher cesarean rates as a relevant factor in these disparities. April Read more…
Fifth in-person LadyLike summit to be held on April 15 By Emily Kestel As Lindsey White stepped to the podium to give opening remarks at the 2022 LadyLike Summit, she took a deep breath and looked into the crowd. She Read more…