IOWA

Tara McMorris didn’t set out to start a successful home baking business. The journey from her life working for a law firm to baking elaborate cakes as the owner of Late Night Cake Company includes the birth of her daughter, roller derby, insomnia and “Cake Boss.” The Cedar Rapids Gazette

The Quad-City Times featured Kathleen Logan, office manager for Terracon, in last week’s “Each One Teach One” spotlight. The regular feature offers career advice from established Quad-City business and community leaders to those just starting out. Quad-City Times

NATION

For the second time in two years, IBM has expanded parental leave, offering new mothers 20 weeks of paid leave and doubling the benefit for new fathers to 12 weeks. The company will also reimburse up to $20,000 for the cost of adoption or surrogacy, even if it is unsuccessful. Fortune 

The U.S. Army is testing a new physical fitness test with no adjustments for gender or age that the military says will better predict soldiers’ ability to do their jobs. Bizwomen.com

A survey of employees in the cannabis industry shows that 30 percent of them work for entirely-women-owned companies. Bizwomen.com