There is a moment, several chapters into Elizabeth Winder’s “Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones” that quietly justifies the book’s existence. In the biographical introduction of the section about aspiring R&B artist Marsha Hunt — before her life is rerouted by bearing Mick Jagger’s…
Youth is still prized as a superpower in society, including where you work. Research has found that people are more likely to automatically assume you are more ambitious, intelligent and tech-savvy when you are thought to be younger. But in the workplace, being young or looking young can also be wielded against women. In a new preliminary study featured…
Suspected pedophile and former fashion mogul Peter Nygard was arrested on more sex crime charges, this time for a 1993 case in which he’s accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old at his company’s headquarters in Canada. Winnipeg, Manitoba, police obtained an arrest warrant on Monday for city native Nygard, 81, after months of investigation into…
What is The Super Models about? In a press release, Apple TV+ said the documentary series, “travels back to the 1980s, when four women from different corners of the world united in New York. Already forces in their own right, the gravitas they achieved by coming together transcended the industry itself. “Their prestige was so…
The 2023 Women’s World Cup will be held from July 20 to August 20 in Australia and New Zealand. Here is everything you need to know about the tournament: What is special about this year’s tournament? The 2023 World Cup will be the most attended standalone women’s sporting event in history, with more than one…
Private credit may have become a hot asset class, but it is ice-cold when it comes to inclusion. Women-owned private equity firms* account for only 7.2% of all U.S.-based firms and have a smaller share of assets under management (AUM), just 1.6%, according to the Knight Foundation. A women- and minority-owned private credit firm, Avante Capital Partners, is…
