Women in Print Alliance is creating a community in which you can share with, learn from, advocate for, and enthusiastically celebrate other women in the industry. Do you know (or are you) a woman in print who is a Leader, an Educator, an Innovator, or a Rising Star that should be featured on our website and in...
It’s the heat of the summer and across the country and all over our social media pages, it seems the entirety of America – kids and adults – are taking one long summer vacation (“The beach!” “The lake!” “Italy!” “Niagara Falls!”). It can lead to serious “FOMO” (Fear of Missing Out) – or quite the...
Widely regarded as the gold standard, annual baseline study of women in the corporate workplace, the 2022 special report focuses on the gender-based work experience against the backdrop of a “new normal” reset brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of the lessons and experiences are also relevant to small and medium-sized businesses. A table of...
Manufacturers – including printers – continue to struggle to find qualified workers, yet women still remain a somewhat untapped labor resource. This paper explores how a variety of manufacturing companies are seeking to increase women in their workplaces, and provides best practices to improve gender equity, diversity & inclusion – including attempts to close the...
The difference between the earnings of men and women – often termed the “gender pay gap” – has barely changed over the past two decades. This multi-industry study presents the dollars and cents data, while exploring how the factors of age, motherhood, and education play into this persistent societal and business conundrum.
More employees than ever are doing double-duty on the professional and personal fronts, particularly as society now defines the “caregiving” role as one beyond traditional parenting. According to the McKinsey 2022 “Women in the Workplace” study, more women than ever before are leaving their jobs. However, the study emphasizes the point that these women are...
The “Hello, My Name Is…” sticker likely still reads “John” if you’re a CEO of an S&P 500 company, though “Jennifer” is now a possibility, too. That was one upshot of Bloomberg’s breaking news in March that the number of women CEOs leading S&P 500 companies is now at the highest marker in the 68-year...
Every year I look forward to reading the McKinsey/Lean In.org “Women in the Workplace” study; it’s become the gold standard, annual baseline report on trends driving the current state of our nation’s work/life culture. Therefore, I was honored to join Marianne Cooper, senior research scholar at VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab at Stanford University and...
More women – over 25 percent – are serving in Congress than ever before. How can you as a women leading a printing company initiate grassroots advocacy engagement with this group of women lawmakers on Capitol Hill (or at the state or local level, too) to benefit your company, your employees, your customers, and, at...
The opening of the 118th Congress (2023-24) on January 3rd, typically a day marked by bipartisan platitudes and endless “grip and grin” photo ops, almost instantly descended into bizarre controlled chaos as the US House of Representatives failed to organize itself by not electing a speaker on the first ballot for the first time in...
