The CWCW Blog

Male investors who make it part of their investment strategy to fund women-led firms are a rare breed. Will their outsized returns convince more men to join in and help close the gap in women’s access to capital? Whenever Adam Quinton hears, once again, about the paltry sums of venture money being invested in businesses led by women, he sees [...]

POLINA — A FILM co-directed by Valérie Müller and her husband, French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj — is just what I needed at this time of cultural and political peril. I’m always tense.  I worry.  But in worse times than these — well, maybe not worse — I’ve always found respite and escape in watching dance. Who cannot be transported by the [...]

TO PUT INTO words the extraordinary light and vision that is Sheryl Lee Ralph is not easy. A singer, actress, humanitarian and activist, Ralph has been performing for decades; and in her cabaret show, A DIVA Simply Singing, that premiered this summer at New York City’s Metropolitan Room, she bares her soul to the audience. While always [...]

BIRTHRIGHT: A WAR STORY is a feature length documentary that examines how women are being jailed, physically violated and even put at risk of dying as a radical movement tightens its grip across America. The film tells the story of women who have become collateral damage in the aggressive campaign to take control of reproductive health care [...]

ALTHOUGH HILLARY CLINTON may not have broken that glass ceiling in November, we nevertheless are seeing a surge in women of a certain age breaking new boundaries and shattering records. However, politics and culture don’t always follow the same trajectory.  Pop music singers, Broadway divas and Hollywood’s finest actresses are defying long [...]

I PROUDLY ADMIT it. I’m a Georgia O’Keefe groupie. I just can’t get enough of this iconic artist. I’ve seen countless exhibits, visited the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe and her Ghost Ranch and Abiqui homes. In fact, my daughter-in-law presented me with a beautiful 256 page, comprehensive, coffee table book, [...]

Editor’s Note: The American Geophysical Union (AGU) will be sharing reflections on the March for Science from AGU leaders. This is part two of three. Click here for part one and part three.   AS I STEPPED onto the train to Washington, D.C., I immediately sensed a palpable science vibe throughout the train.  In the café car, the tables were [...]

WE’VE ALL BEEN there when Google Maps goes horribly wrong. We’re on our way out to dinner when it tells us to turn onto a ramp that doesn’t exist. Or we’re frantically trying to find an alternative route around the parking lot that is the highway when our GPS has us make a U-turn, on a one-way street, going the wrong way. Occasionally, [...]

IS FASHION ART? The perennial question. Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has said, “I find it extraordinary […] that in this day and age people are still debating it.” Another colleague said to me, “How can you, of all people, question whether fashion is art?”—as though I were casting [...]

IN 1987, Congress declared March National Women’s History Month. Every year, for the past 30 years, a special Presidential proclamation is issued to honor the extraordinary achievements and contributions of women in history and contemporary society. Every week, for nearly the past four years, Sandi Klein’s Conversations with [...]