Media

Media & Member PR

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.

Case Studies

Here's just a few examples of how our Members get exposure with She Owns It:

Blog and email shoutouts

We share your stories & give you opportunities to contribute content to leverage our platform.

Anyone can apply to write for She Owns It & get in front of our audience.

In this example Member Debbie was featured in our Success Stories series- these posts are viewed hundreds of times & promoted widely.

Social Media shoutouts

We love looking through the directory for great Member Profiles & sharing them on our socials.

You don't have to be an experienced biz owner to be chosen. We're all about compelling stories & some of the best of those come from our smallest or newest business owners.

We're proud of all of you and we want to see you ALL thrive.

Speaking engagements

We often get contacted by businesses & media outlets looking to connect with women in business who support our mahi.

In this instance Spark reached out to connect with an inspirational wāhine to share their story and empower staff to #PressforProgress and be gender inclusive.

Corporate gift outreach

We've had companies reach out to us for fast referral to NZ makers & creators and gifts that showcase the talents of our community.

In this example NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandburg present each other with matching gifts made by NZ artists, including one who's whānau business was nominated by She Owns It.

Share your story opportunities

We hold online & in person events giving Members the opportunity to share their business stories & knowledge.

In 2019 we partnered with Facebook to deliver Facebook Community Boost, powered by She Owns It.

We travelled NZ delivering large scale events, giving Members opportunities to speak on stage, have their businesses profiled by She Owns It and even work alongside Facebook to train and deliver the latest in social media trends and updates.

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