In Case You Missed It – Lift IOWA: 2-25-19
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The Business Record is now accepting nominations for the 2019 Commercial Real Estate Professional of the Year award. The award is designed to highlight an outstanding CRE professional from Central Iowa for his or her professional accomplishments and community engagement. Des Moines Business Record
The Quad City International Airport’s first female board member, Molly Foley, has stepped down.Quad-City Times
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When companies are willing to make salary information public, the data can often expose existing inequalities or gaps between employees of different backgrounds. But it can also have a more long-lasting effect: increasing the number of women the company hires. CNN Business
As the United States has debated the issue of paid parental leave, a few employers have stood out by providing very generous terms. One has been the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which in 2015 began offering parents one year of fully paid leave to spend with their babies. It turns out it was too long to be sustainable. New York Times
Three women who attend Yale University sued the school and nine all-male fraternities, seeking to force the social organizations to admit women in response to alleged sexual assault, harassment and discrimination. AP News
The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council recently named 60 corporations as the winners of its America’s Top Corporations for Women’s Business Enterprises award. Lodging Magazine
On Tuesday last week, Barack Obama and NBA star Steph Curry spoke at a conference in California in which the former president introduced himself in a seemingly funny — and delightfully feminist — way. HuffPost Women