On Jan. 9, TikToker Brittany Pietsch posted a video of her layoff from tech company Cloudflare. The video went viral, with various outlets weighing in both on how the company handled the layoff and Pietsch’s choice to post it at all. To-date, the video’s been played 1.1 million times, and Pietsch’s repost of the video … Read more
Women make up just 14% of the construction workforce in the U.S. and 1% of chief executives in the field — and Misha Homara is one of them. The 30-year-old is the CEO of Tricore Panels in the Bay Area, a family business her dad started in 2012 that creates metal, wood and concrete paneling … Read more
Nationwide, women outearn men in just 42 U.S. cities out of an analysis of some 1,800 cities, according to a new GoBankingRates report using Census Bureau data. The report considers the median annual earnings for men and women in cities with a population of at least 20,000 people. Of locations, these are the 10 top-paying … Read more
Four years after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, women are back at work — and taking jobs or looking for them at a higher rate than they were before it started. In February 2020, 77% of women ages 25 to 54 participated in the labor force, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In … Read more
In 2022, Lenny Rachitsky decided to try a new venture: Lenny’s Podcast. The now 42-year-old had founded a successful newsletter about product management, Lenny’s Newsletter, in 2019. Rachitsky was making a good living writing one post per week and working 10 to 20 hours on each, and wasn’t sure he wanted to take on another … Read more
Lenny Rachitsky has started some successful ventures in his life. The 42-year-old founded his newsletter, Lenny’s Newsletter, about product management in 2019. It now boasts more than 570,000 subscribers and brings in more than $500,000 per year. He writes one post a week and works on each for 10 to 20 hours. In 2022, Rachitsky … Read more
