Does your company have new summer hires (or farewell retirements) coming aboard this season? If so, it’s a wise time to review and evaluate your existing organization chart. If that effort sounds: a) tedious, b) overwhelming, or c) both, we’ve got a few quick-start tips from Women in Print Alliance Professional Advisor Adriane Harrison, VP...
Join 100 of the most dynamic women in print for a special evening at our annual Members Welcome Reception at EXPO 2025. This event is exclusively for members of Women in Print Alliance. (Not a member yet but want to be eligible to attend this event? Join today – we’d love to welcome you to our...
Women in Print Alliance members hit Capitol Hill in May as part of an industry-wide delegation visit to Washington, D.C. The women represented varied roles and segments within print manufacturing, including direct mail, commercial print, book publishing, and specialty promo/apparel. Organized by PRINTING United Alliance, the 2025 Legislative Fly-In event was a unique opportunity for...
The deeply personal decision to change one’s last name following a marriage or divorce is driven by a mix of societal and cultural norms, sensitivity to the wishes of partners and/or children, and legal dynamics. But for women in the print workforce there is an additional factor to consider: the desire to protect a hard-earned...
We know there’s not exactly an “Easy Button” for working moms of print, but we’ve rounded up a list of five technology tools endorsed as “essential” by The Working Mom Conference. It’s our annual gift to all of you Working Moms in Print! Here they are: Google Calendar. It’s a tried and true classic for...
Life happens. And when it happens in a traumatic or crisis-driven way, our priorities shift naturally and immediately to put personal needs over professional duties. Because it’s impossible to know if or when an employee or co-worker will experience a crisis, having a corporate culture (and plan) in place to address emergency situations is crucial....
Alarming new data on employee disengagement is keeping corporate leaders up at night – and one antidote to it might just be lying on their nightstands: a book. At the end of 2024 employee engagement in the U.S. tumbled to 31% – the lowest level in a decade; a Gallup report found employee detachment in...
We hear a lot about the graphic communications field being disproportionately male, but is it also disproportionately extroverted? You may think so by reading industry press coverage, much of which focuses on myriad trade shows and industry conferences – networking, back-slapping, sales-pitching types that seem tailor-made for extroverted women in print. But according to Women...
April 22 is Earth Day, but for five women working in print and print-adjacent industries, every day is chance to raise awareness and advance solutions to better our planet. As professionals working in the environmental and sustainability space, each has a unique niche that’s part of a larger effort to make print authentically green (while...
With talk of “reciprocal tariffs” and “retaliatory tariffs” dominating the global print economic news, U.S. women are starting to hear more – and say more – about another type of tariff. A sneaky little personal one that has long caused women’s clothing, shoes, and undergarments to cost more than men’s. It’s termed the “pink tariff”...
