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1100 women entrepreneurs gain digital marketing skills

More than 1100 women entrepreneurs have gained valuable digital marketing skills in 2019, thanks to a partnership between #SheOwnsIt and Facebook.

Women We Love

It started with a frustration and a Facebook Group and now She Owns It is a thriving community for NZ women in business. Founder Rachel Lewis shares the She Owns It journey in the September 2019 issue of Next Magazine.

Nuturing women entrepreneurs

She Owns It Founder on what help women need most when starting their business.

Facebook starts digital skills coaching for NZ women in business

Facebook Partner and She Owns It Founder explains why it's needed.

Women's professional priorities changing

Women's professional priorities are changing. Recent reports show 18 per cent of NZX listed company boards have no women present, but instead of seeing this as a negative, Rachel Lewis, the founder of She Owns It, sees it as women adapting.

World Bank report shows NZ lagging behind world leaders on gender equality laws

New Zealand's gender equality may be hindered by legislation the country has in place, according to a global ranking research report conducted by World Bank.

Women, Business and the Law 2019: A Decade of Reform canvasses 10 years of law reform in 133 countries and scores them on overall progressiveness and shifts to remove barriers for women in the workplace or who want to start businesses.

It looks specifically at how women's employment and entrepreneurship choices are affected by legal gender discrimination.

Entrepreneur tips: personal productivity hacks

To find out how some of NZ’s most productive entrepreneurs get things done, #nzentrepreneur Editor Richard Liew asked six action-oriented Kiwis to share their number one personal productivity hack. The results were as varied as they were insightful – we hope you find them useful!

We need to talk about NZ's gender pay gap

The Empirical evidence of the gender pay gap in New Zealand report released on Tuesday by the Ministry for Women revealed that the main reason women continuing to be paid less than men for the same work was due to “unexplained” factors. Some of those factors: conscious and unconscious bias, and good-old-fashioned (and by that, we mean ridiculously archaic) sexism.

​1100 women entrepreneurs gain digital marketing skills