Our
Beginning: 3 friends
Nancy
Clark, Dianne Schilling,
and Susanna Palomares
.
Nancy
Clark, our CEO, has been the guiding
force behind the growth of WomensMedia. A physics
and geology graduate from Berkeley, she can make the
claim that she started out in rocket science. Nancy’s
background began with space science technology with
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, expanded to computer
technology for business applications, and then evolved
into the design of gender and ethnic equity programs
for the University of California. For twenty-five
years, she has donated her spare time and energy to
nonprofit organizations reaching out to women of all
ethnicities.
She founded WomensMedia seven years ago with her friends
Dianne Schilling and Susanna Palomares, two women
with extensive experience in management training and
educational publishing. They wanted to provide more
in-depth material for working women than has been
available on the Internet. Dianne and Susanna told
Nancy, "You decide what you need and let us know.
This’ll be a worthwhile endeavor."
Our
Reach: Women across the globe
We now have more than 300,000 women regularly visiting
our site and almost 20% are from outside the U.S.
We’re pleased to have many members from the U.K.,
Canada, Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and
India.
Our
Promise: Information you can trust
For
the first three years, we "passed a hat" at the end
of every month to pay the bills. We didn’t want to
accept advertising dollars because we wanted women
to know they could trust our information - that it
wasn’t biased towards sponsors.
You
Tell Us: We'll give you what you want
We
know you’re intelligent and we know you’re busy. We
also know you’re on the Internet for two reasons:
- To
keep important relationships going, and
- To
find information - tools for your life.
Sometimes we’ve presented articles which did not interest
you - we removed them. Some articles were interesting
to nearly everyone who visited - we expanded those topics.
Now we’ve put up discussion forums, so use them to talk
about your ideas for our site and let us know. We’re
interested in putting thousands of heads together every
month. Who knows what super ideas might emerge?
We ask you to:
- Help
other women with their problems through our discussion
groups.
- Tell
us when there's an expert we should feature.
- Tell
us how to improve our service - and help us with
that.
- Work
with us on Computers Are For Girls, whether
you're a parent, teacher, psychologist, or an information
specialist.
Giving
Back: Computers Are For Girls
Whether
you have children or not, we think you’ll appreciate
our commitment to our own giving back program: Computers
Are For Girls. Part of every dollar we earn goes
to this start-up endeavor. In the future, we will
pay for the development of software for teachers,
parents, and students to download and use free of
charge. Our focus is on young girls up through the
age of ten. This is where we think we can make the
biggest difference. This is when girls - in great
numbers - decide computers are for boys. When these
girls are women, they’ll most likely be using computers
at work, but they won’t enjoy the technology salary
benefits. They also won’t be involved in designing
software products that appeal to women. Our goal is
to let young girls see how fun and useful computers
can be, and then they’ll decide Computers Are For
Girls.
From
Our CEO, Nancy Clark: We'll give you the tools!
Quotes
by Nancy Clark
“Men
and women aren’t planets apart, but their stereotypes sure are!”
—Nancy Clark
“Don’t
match the stereotype. Be the new one.”
—Nancy Clark
“Honor
your talents and act like a woman—a smart woman—who knows how to
jump over business obstacles, even in heels.”
—Nancy Clark
“Men
are allies in the women's revolution,
because it's good for families, and good for business.”
—Nancy Clark
"The
nature-nurture question is muddied by stereotypes."
—Nancy Clark
“The
time is right for women in business. Learn to avoid the remaining obstacles
and the glass ceiling will cease to exist!”
—Nancy Clark
“The
playing field is being leveled, even for those players
wearing heels!”
—Nancy Clark
“When
both women and men bring their strengths to the workplace, business benefits.”
—Nancy Clark
"The
good news for women is that business now wants
collaborative leadership, relationship skills, sharing of information, and win/win
negotiation—skills that come easily to most women."
—Nancy Clark
"In
today’s male business culture, a woman needs to have a few more tools
than a man, but fortunately for us, we carry a purse."
—Nancy Clark
“Men
are changing when women are negotiating the second shift.”
—Nancy Clark
"The
saying 'Nice girls don’t ask!' is yesterday’s advice for business.
Today’s advice is 'Women ask, and ask,
and appreciate what they get.' ”
—Nancy Clark
See
my favorite Quotations
by women.
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Clark for more information.
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