Caroline Fairchild
- Editor-in-Chief, Vice President of Education
New York
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women in business, retail, management, leadership
Formerly @leaninorg @mybff & @linkedinnews. Founder of @fortunemagazine’s The Broadsheet. Always focused on advancing women. Forever @DukeU.
Articles by Caroline Fairchild
I spent my entire career reporting on the world’s most powerful working mothers-but I am not prepared for maternity leave. Here’s why
It’s March of 2020, a few days before a global pandemic turns the entire world on its head, and I’m sitting backstage in the green room of CBS This Morning. With a cup of lukewarm coffee in hand, I strike up a conversation with the guest who is appearing before me. A travel expert going on to discuss rapid rises in airfare, he asks me what my segment is about. “Working mothers,” I reply. “And the stigmas they face coming back to work after maternity leave.” “Oh, how interesting,” he says.
GM, BFF: Fashion's Web3 Future
Welcome to GM, BFF, a newsletter hitting your inbox every week with key insights from web3, crypto, our community and beyond. We’re looking for an interim Editor in Chief to fill in for me while I’m on mat leave. Sound like you? Learn more below. What started as a friendship a decade ago between two new moms transformed into a partnership that is taking Web3 fashion to the next level.
How Eventbrite’s CEO Sees Web3 Revolutionizing Events, Transactions And More
Julia Hartz is a Founding BFF. The Founding BFFs are comprised of more than 100 female and non-binary leaders across crypto, tech, design, business, and more. Just like our community, some are new to crypto, and others are full-on experts. Who: Julia Hartz, Co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite Web2 Julia: Julia is an entrepreneur, investor, and the co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite, a global self-service ticketing, marketing, and experience technology platform.
Why Zero Royalties Stand To Hurt Diverse Creators The Most
The traditional art world suffers from a diversity issue that in many ways Web3 was intended to fix. Zero royalties put that promise in jeopardy. Working as an artist for the past ten years, Maliha Abidi is all-but-too familiar with getting zero income for her work after the initial sale. In part, that’s why she created Women Rise NFT, a collection of 10,000 art pieces representing women from around the world.
Finance’s next frontier is leaving women behind
This is Working Together, a weekly series on professional women and equity in the workplace. Have ideas about what we should discuss next week? Let me know in the comments using #WorkingTogether or email me at caroline@linkedin.com. The world of finance is embarking on a crypto revolution, and women are falling behind.
LinkedIn Top Voices in Racial Equity: The 10 creators to follow
Caroline Fairchild Caroline Fairchild Journalist, Editor At Large, LinkedIn News Published Mar 30, 2022 Welcome to a special edition of Working Together, highlighting the 2022 LinkedIn Top Voices in Racial Equity, 10 must-follow thought leaders covering topics related to diversity, equity and inclusion. Despite making up 7.4% of the U.S. population, only 1.4% of C-Suite roles are held by Black women.
How Fawn Weaver broke into the male-dominated spirits industry: "I never thought that I couldn't”
This is Working Together, a weekly series on professional women and equity in the workplace. Have ideas about what we should discuss next week? Let me know in the comments using #WorkingTogether or email me at caroline@linkedin.com. When Fawn Weaver started trying to sell her new brand of Tennessee whiskey in bars and restaurants, she’d ask the barkeep or manager one simple question.
Going beyond gender and race: What true inclusion requires
This is Working Together, a weekly series on professional women and equity in the workplace. Have ideas about what we should discuss next week? Let me know in the comments using #WorkingTogether or email me at caroline@linkedin.com. As the world evolves, so must our thinking about diversity, equity and inclusion in corporate America. Some 85% U.S. companies have launched initiatives to improve gender diversity on their teams, and 89% of firms have made similar moves to improve racial diversity.
In pandemic-growth cities like Seattle, working women are advancing faster
This is Working Together, a weekly series on professional women and equity in the workplace. Below is the third installment of a three-part series examining how the pandemic has impacted the careers of women. Check out parts one and two. When Brie Tobin joined Seattle-based software startup Highspot in January 2020, she had little idea of the massive changes that were in store. Two months after her start, she was thrown into the world of remote work by the pandemic.
‘Necessity entrepreneurs’: Why the pandemic fueled a rise in female founders
This is Working Together, a weekly series on professional women and equity in the workplace. Below is the second in a three-part series examining how the pandemic has impacted the careers of women. Check out Part 1 and Part 3. When Sara Kosiorek landed a director level job at the Mayo Clinic in 2019, she figured she had entered the stable, secure portion of her professional journey.
Women continue to rise at work, despite the pandemic
This is Working Together, a weekly series on professional women and equity in the workplace. Below is the first in a three-part series examining how the pandemic has impacted the careers of women. You can see the pandemic’s devastating impact on working women across all parts of the U.S. economy. But COVID-19 did not fully erase the gains women have been making over the long term.
America is still underinvesting in its fastest growing group of entrepreneurs
This is Working Together, a weekly series on professional women and equity in the workplace. Have ideas about what we should discuss next week? Let me know in the comments using #WorkingTogether or email me at caroline@linkedin.com. When Deborah Owens decided to start a business in 2014, her first and biggest challenge was all about funding.
Pay transparency could cut the gender pay gap by 40%
Employers are just one step away from a dramatic narrowing of today’s gender pay gap. But that same move may hurt both employee motivation and retention. That’s the main finding of a new study soon to be published in Nature Human Behaviour this week on pay transparency. The report — which tracked wages and productivity of almost 100,000 U.S. academics across eight U.S. states over two decades — found that pay transparency significantly reduces pay inequality among men and women.
How one CEO found opportunity in crisis
This is Working Together, a weekly series on professional women and equity in the workplace. Have ideas about what we should discuss next week? Let me know in the comments using #WorkingTogether or email me at caroline@linkedin.com. Nearly two years after a pandemic almost destroyed her business, Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz has two words to describe her company’s crisis: Fortunate and timely. It took her a while to come to this assessment, of course.
This hidden cost is fueling today’s gender pay gap
This is Working Together, a weekly series on professional women and equity in the workplace. Have ideas about what we should discuss next week? Let me know in the comments using #WorkingTogether or email me at caroline@linkedin.com. When Tammy Sun decided to freeze her eggs at the age of 35, the whole process cost about $35,000. That’s $35,000 that she couldn’t invest. $35,000 she couldn’t put towards a home.
How hybrid work could hurt your career
This is Working Together, a weekly series on professional women and equity in the workplace. Have ideas about what we should discuss next week? Let me know in the comments using #WorkingTogether or email me at caroline@linkedin.com. Flexible work is the new normal. And yet, adopting it may still hurt your career. Some 58% of knowledge workers are now in hybrid working arrangements, according to a new survey of more than 10,000 workers around the world by Slack’s Future Forum.
The fastest growing jobs where women are winning
This is Working Together, a weekly series on professional women and equity in the workplace. Have ideas about what we should discuss next week? Let me know in the comments using #WorkingTogether or email me at caroline@linkedin.com. In the wake of a pandemic-fueled economic crisis that wielded an especially harsh blow on women, signs of progress are starting to emerge.
The trends that will define work in 2022
This is Working Together, a weekly series on equity in the workplace, and this is our last column of the year. I want to thank the Working Together community, which has grown to 230,000+ members, for all your contributions and insights this year. Have ideas of topics we should tackle next year? Let me know in the comments below or email me at caroline@linkedin.com. See you in 2022! We entered this year hopeful that things would be better than 2020.
A hope for 2022: Diversity in the workplace will become multi-dimensional
This is Working Together, a weekly series on equity in the workplace. Today, LinkedIn News unveiled our Big Ideas for 2022 package, and an extended version of mine is below. Share your own Big Idea using #BigIdeas2022. Also, join us at 2:30ET on Wednesday, December 8th for a live discussion with Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield here. Ruchika Tulshyan has devoted her career to studying diversity and inclusion.
One battle after another: Why women veterans struggle to get hired after the military
This is Working Together, a weekly series on equity in the workplace. In honor of Veteran’s Day, we’re taking a deep dive into the career pathways of female veterans. Join us for a live discussion on this same topic on November 11th at 3ET here. Within six months of joining the U.S. Army in 2012, Kristin Saboe was deployed to Afghanistan to advise General Milley on the mental health of U.S. troops. The psychology PhD spent her six years of service moving from one leadership role to the next.
Execs want to go back to the office. The rest of us don’t. Here’s why that’s a problem
This is Working Together, a weekly series on equity in the workplace. Have ideas about what we should discuss next week? Let me know in the comments using #WorkingTogether or email me at caroline@linkedin.com. Senior leaders are eager to get back into the office. People of color, women and working parents are not feeling it. That’s the key finding of a new survey by Future Forum, a group launched by Slack to assist companies as they reimagine work.
How national paid leave became a business priority
This is Working Together, a weekly series on equity in the workplace. Have ideas about what we should discuss next week? Let me know in the comments using #WorkingTogether or email me at caroline@linkedin.com. As lawmakers on Capitol Hill debate whether a national paid leave program should remain in President Biden’s final budget package, business leaders are lending their voice to the cause.
One thing the pandemic hasn’t changed: Women still do most of the “office housework”
This is Working Together, a weekly series on equity in the workplace. This special edition is focused on the most comprehensive U.S. study of women in the workplace by LeanIn and McKinsey. Female leaders have stepped up to address the growing needs of their teams amid the pandemic. But companies continue to ignore these contributions.
The gender gap among America’s top startups is shrinking, but just barely
This is Working Together, a weekly series on equity in the workplace. This week’s edition is devoted to LinkedIn’s Top Startups list, which you can see in full here. More women-founded companies have made LinkedIn’s Top Startups U.S. list than ever before. But women entrepreneurs continue to face an uphill battle, according to LinkedIn data. Twelve of the 50 companies (24%) on this year’s Top Startups list have at least one female founder or co-founder.
The ‘Separate Ways’ Black and white women advance at work
This is Working Together, a weekly series on equity in the workplace. Have ideas about what we should discuss next week? Let me know in the comments using #WorkingTogether or email me at caroline@linkedin.com. Twenty years ago, two professors set out on an ambitious research project to document the experiences of Black and white women in the workplace. In 2001, Ella Bell Smith and Stella M.
Low-Wage Workers Are Robbed More Than Banks, Gas Stations And Convenience Stores Combined
Low-wage workers are robbed far more often than banks, gas stations and convenience stores combined -- and the perpetrators are their own employers. That's because many employers don't abide by minimum wage laws or pay overtime, according to a study, released on Thursday by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
After #MeToo, women in entertainment still struggle to find their voice
In January, as hundreds of actresses attending the Golden Globes donned all-black apparel and Time's Up pins, executive assistant Paris Herbert-Taylor watched the spectacle from SoHo House, a club in West Hollywood. A 30-year-old Australian who moved to Los Angeles in 2017 to pursue her entertainment career, Herbert-Taylor previously worked in events in Toronto.
Men and women agree on the obstacles facing women in entertainment, but solutions are less clear
Roughly a year since stories of harassment and discrimination at work started to dominate the headlines, professionals in entertainment say the problems facing their industry are more pervasive than what you might think. This reality surfaces in our survey, in partnership with CNBC's Closing The Gap series, on the state of gender in the entertainment industry.
In 25 years, will more women rise to the CEO seat?
Last summer, Lynn Good became CEO of Duke Energy. Under her leadership, the $25 billion company experienced a 50% increase in profits. Formally the firm’s chief financial officer, Good spent the year navigating Duke Energy (DUK) through a difficult merger with Progress Energy. Good is one of just a handful of women — in the world — who became CEO of a large company last year.
When everyone wants to work at your startup, what do you do next?
Luggage startup Away is quickly becoming one of the most well-known direct-to-consumer brands. Co-founder and CEO Steph Korey is now hard at work to make sure her company’s culture is as popular as the products themselves. It was in January, right around when she had hired her 100th employee, that Steph Korey realized her next hire might be her most important. Korey is the CEO of luggage startup Away, and all signs were pointing to her brand breaking out into mainstream success.
The first female CEO of a top U.S. bank talks solutions to finance’s gender pay gap
When Beth Mooney entered banking in 1977, the only job she could get was as a secretary. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Texas, Mooney said the only thing managers in finance wanted to know was how fast she could type. They told her multiple times that she wouldn’t make it in divisions like corporate banking or real estate. Why? Women were just not allowed. But that didn’t stop her from applying, sometimes even begging, to be given an opportunity.
Women in finance see a gender gap — men don’t agree
Female finance workers believe they don’t have the same opportunity as their male peers when it comes to career advancement and pay. Men in the industry see a very different picture. This disconnect emerges in our survey, in partnership with CNBC’s Closing The Gap series, on the state of gender in the finance industry.
Where women in finance see a gender gap, men don’t
Female finance workers believe they don’t have the same opportunity as their male peers when it comes to career advancement and pay. Men in the industry see a very different picture. This disconnect emerges in our survey, in partnership with CNBC’s Closing The Gap series, on the state of gender in the finance industry.
Despite #MeToo, senior leaders in finance see tough road ahead for young women
As a female managing director at a prominent investment firm in New York City, a professional I’ll call Amy is an anomaly. Fewer than 17 percent of senior leaders in investment banking are women and Amy said her 15-year road to the top, starting as an analyst in 2003, was quite challenging. When working in Asia, she dealt with bosses who would force her to sit through client events held in brothels.
Having kids and working is stressful. This startup wants to fix that
Weeks after coming back from maternity leave, Sarah Guo was promoted to partner at venture capital firm Greylock. Now, she is investing millions in a startup she hopes will ease the transition back to the workplace for other parents. Cleo — a startup that supports working parents with prenatal and postpartum care to grow their families and their careers — announced this morning a $10.5 million Series A funding round, led by Guo.
Walmart sees hidden tech talent in parents returning to work
The war for tech talent is fiercer than ever. Walmart rarely competes with giants like Google when it comes to lavish perks, but it hopes to stay competitive by opening the door wider for parents returning to work. Starting in September, Walmart’s technology division – Walmart Labs – will offer training for workers looking to restart their careers after taking time off to care for children or a family member.
The Women Silicon Valley Insiders Think Should Be Twitter's Next CEO
One of the most coveted CEO roles in tech is now up for grabs and several prominent influencers in Silicon Valley think it may be time for a more diverse leader to take over. After Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced last week that he would be stepping down, a search committee quickly assembled to find his replacement.
How do we train workers for jobs that don’t exist? Executives with nearly 1 million employees weigh in
Dave McKay is worried. The CEO of Canadian bank RBC, McKay recently read a report written by his team that that at a minimum, 25% of the jobs in Canada will significantly change in the near future due to technology. Another 50% will at least be materially changed as well. Of course, McKay doesn’t need to read a report to know change is coming.
Uber's Chief Diversity Officer opens up on her first days on the job
When Bo Young Lee first got a call from Uber, she was adjusting to life with a five-month old baby. An executive at financial services firm Marsh, Lee built an 18-year-long career focused on diversity and inclusion. Uber’s leadership team reached out because they wanted her to become the company’s first ever chief diversity officer. “I am insane for even taking this call,” Lee remembers thinking.
These 30+ female VCs pledged to change the tech industry. Now they're getting to work.
As early as late November, a few dozen senior women working venture capital knew what they were up to could be big. What they didn’t know is that is was big enough to land them on the cover of Forbes five months later. In the wake of a summer of allegations against several prominent venture capitalists of sexual harassment, veteran investor Aileen Lee sent an email to a group of female VCs that served as a call to action.
Theranos: From unicorn to unicorpse + job moves at Coinbase, WeWork and more
Welcome to the weekly Premium Report, which highlights industry trends, job moves and tech openings. Not a Premium member? Sign up today. “Just when you think things can’t get any worse for Elizabeth Holmes — they do.” Nearly two years ago, that was the first sentence of a feature I wrote about the epic rise and fall of blood testing startup Theranos. That was the first time the SEC declared it was looking into Holmes’ company, once valued at $9 billion.
Venture Capital & Entrepreneurship
Nearly 1,000 posts are shared in the LinkedIn feed every minute. With that in mind, finding the right voices to follow - particularly in startupland - can be challenging. That's why we did the work for you. To figure out who is writing about entrepreneurship and venture capital best, we've sifted through the data, using a combination of data and editorial signals designed to capture the voices making a mark in their industries.
LinkedIn Top Voices 2017: Technology
There are more than 100,000 unique articles created on LinkedIn each week. Standing out amongst the crowd can be difficult, but for LinkedIn's Top Voices in tech, they have the process nearly down to a science. To compile the list, we use a combination of data and editorial signals designed to capture the voices making a mark in their industries.
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