Money has no gender. However, the world of investing money does. And it’s male. There are many paths to growing wealth via investing; one of those paths leads through venture capital. The task of the venture capitalist is to spot a startup with promise, then put together the financing to fund its growth. It’s a…
Democracy runs on the belief that a people should have a say in how they are governed. About that, most U.S. citizens agree. What they haven’t agreed upon historically is who should have that say. From the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 saying that “all men are created equal,” it took nearly…
Lilly Ledbetter famously said, “Sometimes in life, you hit a turning point.” The turning point she hit came in 1998, when someone slipped an anonymous note into her mailbox at work. It told her that her employer of nearly 20 years—Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of Gadsen, Alabama—had been paying her about half of what…
Comparing it to work by Frank Lloyd Wright and anticipating it will draw visitors from around the country, the Women’s Leadership Center is being celebrated in a full-length feature article in the Spring 2025 issue of At The Lake, a quarterly publication highlighting the lifestyle, culture, people, and history of southeastern Wisconsin. “Leading by Example”…
Stories make us human. No other animal (that we know of, at least) loves and leans on stories the way humans do to understand ourselves, enjoy ourselves, and tell ourselves the way forward by looking at the road we’ve been on. In March, our love of story gets to focus on women, for March is…
In Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks about climbing onto a wooden motorboat bobbing on Geneva Lake in Wisconsin early one September morning. “We were all a little wobbly,” she admits. Some of the wobbles came from gobs of celebrating the day and night before…