Advancing
Working Women &
Giving Back to Society
WomensMedia provides the latest in-depth material
to help working women advance. We promote a positive
attitude in women, a respect for women’s talents,
and a way out of the cycle of seeing women as victims.
With the same positive attitude, we see men - with
gender awareness - as our allies, helping remove obstacles
to women in business. We give back to society through
our own foundation, Computers Are For Girls.
WomensMedia.com
- Our Story
Our
Beginning: 3 friends
Nancy
Clark 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 30,000 women visiting our site
each month, and almost 20% are from outside the U.S.
We’re pleased to have many members from the U.K.,
Canada, Australia, 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.
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:
Honor
your talents and act like a woman, a smart woman,
who knows how to jump over business obstacles,
even in heels.
—Nancy
Clark
For
more information: In
the Media.
