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women in business

Mutatis Mutandis

And Then There Was One: Facebook Appoints Sheryl Sandberg to Its Executive Board

by Jamie Frevele | 11:49 am, June 26th, 2012

Following months, perhaps years, of complaints about how the “highest-ups” at Facebook are all men, Sheryl Sandberg, the company’s COO since 2008, has finally become the first woman appointed to the board of directors. It won’t be the first board she’s been on, but it’s probably fair to say that it’s about darn time Facebook made this change. We’ll go ahead and say it: The Mary Sue “likes” this.

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she blinded me with science

Female Inventors Double Their Number of Patents and Trademarks

by Jamie Frevele | 2:51 pm, March 5th, 2012

While men still outnumber women greatly as patented inventors, there is still some great news about those numbers changing: inventions by women now account for 18 percent of all patents, which is twice the amount recorded in 1990. They are also one third of all trademark owners, which is also twice as many as there were 30 years ago. The National Business Women’s Council also uncovered several instances of women whose names were on older patents, but were not identified by gender. The U.S. Patent Office doesn’t identify its inventors by gender, so does that mean there could be even more who aren’t getting the recognition they deserve?

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Allow Us To Explain

Facebook, Women, And Breastfeeding: Which Of These Don’t Belong?

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:02 pm, February 6th, 2012

According to two recent articles about the social networking site Facebook, the answer would be both women and breastfeeding. Facebook’s move to public offering shed light on the fact that the company has no women on its board. They’re also facing backlash from mothers who’ve had photos of themselves breastfeeding their babies removed from the website. What gives? 

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Clever Girl

Here Is the 1900′s Chicago Detective Someone Needs to Make a Movie About: Cora Strayer

by Jamie Frevele | 4:20 pm, February 3rd, 2012

A very delightful history geek named Paul Reda came across the mysterious case of a woman named Cora Strayer. Strayer lived on the South Side of Chicago at the turn of the 20th century, at which time she seemed to be running a private detective agency. That is, she was the detective. He came across an ad for her agency on a Vintage Ads Live Journal account and started to piece together Strayer’s career little by little. What he came up with was a timeline that involved nothing less than intrigue, a secret abortion, and a pretty fair amount of alcohol. Seriously, someone needs to turn Cora Strayer’s story into a screenplay.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Emily Carroll’s New Web Comic

by Jamie Frevele | 4:58 pm, October 28th, 2011

Emily Carroll has a new interactive web comic up called Margot’s Room. Here is a hint for reading it: follow the poem on the first page. You’ll definitely want to try this. (via Emily Carroll on Twitter)

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