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The U.S. and Canada should launch a high-profile You Are Ready campaign to encourage women-led entrepreneurship, says the Canada-U.S. Council for Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders.
Read MoreThe Canada-U.S. Council for Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders (the Council) has announced recommendations for the second pillar of their groundbreaking bilateral initiative. Linamar Corporation CEO Linda Hasenfratz and General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra are leading this effort, which aims to expand the number of women and girls studying and pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and math, collectively known as STEM.
Read MoreThe Canada-US Council for Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders (the Council) has announced recommendations for the first pillar of their groundbreaking bilateral initiative, “Advancing Women in Business.” GE Canada President & CEO, GE Vice President Elyse Allan and NRStor Inc. Chair & CEO Annette Verschuren are leading this pillar, which specifically aims to help growth-minded women entrepreneurs scale up their businesses.
Read MoreThe United States and Canada want more women to succeed at work. The Canada-United States Council for Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders, formed after President Donald Trump met Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last year, has released its first report. The Council consists of 10 top female business leaders from both countries, including Accenture North America CEO Julie Sweet, GM head Mary Barra and Linda Hasenfratz of Linamar, a major Canadian autoparts maker. It is tasked with providing recommendations on five “pillars,” including increasing the number of women in STEM and supporting women-owned businesses.
Read MoreWASHINGTON — A Canada-U.S. women-in-business group created by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump released its first set of recommendations Wednesday, proposing more affordable child care and a new binational procurement initiative.
Read MoreA cross-border women's business group launched from a meeting last year between Justin Trudeau and Ivanka Trump is urging the Canadian government to create a procurement policy with a target of allocating 5 per cent of federal contracts to small businesses owned by women.
Read MoreWomen entrepreneurs in Canada and the U.S. face persistent barriers to expand their business and policymakers should take steps to “level the playing field,” according to a new report from a council launched by Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau.
Read MoreChild-care benefits and other family policies need to be updated to help support women entrepreneurs grow their business, recommends the first report from the Canada-U.S. council on women in business.
Read MorePRESIDENT TRUMP: I'm honored to be here with Prime Minister Trudeau, whose father I knew and respected greatly. And he gave me a picture of myself and your father, and what a great picture. I will keep that in a very special place -- at the Waldorf Astoria, together.
Read MoreNo two countries share deeper or broader relations than Canada and the United States. We are bound together by our history, our values, our economy, our environment, and our resolve to improve the lives of our citizens. Our close relationship and ongoing collaboration allow us to successfully meet any challenges we may face over the coming years, and to build a prosperous future for the people of both countries.
Read MoreGrowing up to seeing her mom turn one Asian supermarket in Richmond mall into Canada’s giant Asian food retailer, it does not come as a surprise that Tina Lee who later on took over her mother’s business was named the Canada-US Council for the Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders this week.
Read More“What I would say to women is start negotiating for your salaries,” says Dawn Farrell, BComm’83, MA’85, president and chief executive officer of TransAlta Corporation and a member of the Canada-U.S. Council for Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders. TransAlta has processes to ensure women are hired and advanced. Farrell also reviews her employees’ salaries every two years for parity and will boost women’s salaries to be more in lines with men’s. “Quit being sorry for the fact that you should make more money,” she says. “The guys will not accept the money that you’ll accept. The reality is you have to negotiate for yourself.”
Read MoreAccenture is hiring. This should make President Trump happy. He’s been pressuring business leaders to add more jobs to their payrolls. The giant global consulting firm just announced it is adding 15,000 jobs in the U.S. and opening 10 new innovation hubs over the next four years.
Read MoreAnnette Verschuren, chair and CEO of NRStor, joins BNN to discuss her invitation by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to join a women's roundtable with U.S. President Trump and why both the Canada and U.S. administrations recognize the importance of providing capital to women entrepreneurs.
Read MoreGE today announced goals of having 20,000 women to fill STEM roles at GE by 2020 and obtaining 50:50 representation for all our technical entry-level programs. The program will significantly increase the representation of women in its engineering, manufacturing, IT and product management roles - a strategy necessary to inject urgency into addressing ongoing gender imbalance in technical fields and fully transform into a digital industrial company.
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