Rosie would have been out-earned by Carolyn the Riveter.
If you’ve been spending the last several years fighting for equality, taking Women’s Studies courses, and not shaving your funky pits, here’s some bad news for you. We already heard women who change their name can earn $500,000 less; now LearnVest parsed all the demographic statistics it could find to determine out who is the ideal, stereotypically highest-paid woman. And, big surprise, Pretty girls make more money. Specifically pretty, skinny, assertive, non-smoking, blonde, light-drinking Asian women named Deborah with MBAs. So where do you stack up in the rankings? Read the rest of this entry »
If you’re a woman, changing your last name could cost you — up to a half mil over a lifetime. A study by an economics research institute in the Netherlands found that women who adopted their married names, even hyphenated versions, were likely to earn less than their maiden-named counterparts.
The study even put a dollar amount on how much more a maiden-named dame stands to make: $1,172.36 more per month. Over a lifetime, that could add up to $500,000 or more. Read the rest of this entry »
So we’ll be speaking at a panel at SXSWi next month called “The Broke Diaries: Using Blogs and Twitter to Live Cheaply” but have been seriously lollygagging on booking a room. As a result, all the hotels within walking distance of the conference were sold out, and way too expensive anyway. The plan: something between couch-surfing and a house rental, but the ask-everyone-on-Facebook route didn’t work. But yesterday, our pals over at LearnVest ran a post about a site called Airbnb (sorry but who thought of that impossible-to-remember name?) where you can book a room in someone’s house for less than a hotel. There was a cute room in an artist’s home for $33 a night available during the conference, but we wound up splurging on a $55-a-night room in the home of a wholesome-looking couple named Courtney and Joep. It has a private bathroom, plus a deck overlooking an organic garden, plus wifi, plus coffee, plus personal-training sessions with Courtney if we want them (that’ll be extra), plus a new travel tip for our SXSW panel. We have to drive to the conference, but… score! Not everything on this site is budget-oriented though. They have housboats in India, igloos in Switzerland, castles in England. Check it, Brokesters.
[via LearnVest]
Alexa Von Tobel, 26, left Harvard b-school early and raised over $1M to launch a web site.
Would you take financial advice from someone who dropped out of Harvard Business School in the middle of a recession to start a web site?
It might not be a bad idea. Alexa Von Tobel is a not-even-30 dynamo who managed to raise $1.1 million from major corporations to launch LearnVest.com, an online personal financial planner for women, a kind of Cosmo for checkbooks.
Alexa’s over the bridge in Manhattan, but we’re writing about her because our readers are creative types who love to dream up iPhone apps, start blogs, open online stores and the like—and while you can do all of those things by the seat of your pants, Alexa’s experience in developing a business plan and raising funds is indispensable to anyone hatching a new venture. Read the rest of this entry »
Shopping for groceries in Brooklyn means some sort of existential terror as you choose between free-range or caged, co-op or Trader Joe’s, canned 99 cent beans or the pesticide free, humanely raised, lovingly artisanal variety from the farmers’ market. Learnvest is trying to help allieve some of the terror with this chart of when you should buy organic and when you can let it slide. It’s based on USDA standards, the amount of pesticides found in each food and other “common wisdom” in the green community. According to this, you should stick with organic tomatoes, potatoes and spinach, but can get regular ol’ versions of broccoli, pineapple and grapefruit. Condescending looks from your fellow shoppers are your problem. Read the rest of this entry »
Rosie would have been out-earned by Carolyn the Riveter.
If you’ve been spending the last several years fighting for equality, taking Women’s Studies courses, and not shaving your funky pits, here’s some bad news for you. We already heard women who change their name can earn $500,000 less; now LearnVest parsed all the demographic statistics it could find to determine out who is the ideal, stereotypically highest-paid woman. And, big surprise, Pretty girls make more money. Specifically pretty, skinny, assertive, non-smoking, blonde, light-drinking Asian women named Deborah with MBAs. So where do you stack up in the rankings? Read the rest of this entry »
If you’re a woman, changing your last name could cost you — up to a half mil over a lifetime. A study by an economics research institute in the Netherlands found that women who adopted their married names, even hyphenated versions, were likely to earn less than their maiden-named counterparts.
The study even put a dollar amount on how much more a maiden-named dame stands to make: $1,172.36 more per month. Over a lifetime, that could add up to $500,000 or more. Read the rest of this entry »
So we’ll be speaking at a panel at SXSWi next month called “The Broke Diaries: Using Blogs and Twitter to Live Cheaply” but have been seriously lollygagging on booking a room. As a result, all the hotels within walking distance of the conference were sold out, and way too expensive anyway. The plan: something between couch-surfing and a house rental, but the ask-everyone-on-Facebook route didn’t work. But yesterday, our pals over at LearnVest ran a post about a site called Airbnb (sorry but who thought of that impossible-to-remember name?) where you can book a room in someone’s house for less than a hotel. There was a cute room in an artist’s home for $33 a night available during the conference, but we wound up splurging on a $55-a-night room in the home of a wholesome-looking couple named Courtney and Joep. It has a private bathroom, plus a deck overlooking an organic garden, plus wifi, plus coffee, plus personal-training sessions with Courtney if we want them (that’ll be extra), plus a new travel tip for our SXSW panel. We have to drive to the conference, but… score! Not everything on this site is budget-oriented though. They have housboats in India, igloos in Switzerland, castles in England. Check it, Brokesters.
[via LearnVest]
Alexa Von Tobel, 26, left Harvard b-school early and raised over $1M to launch a web site.
Would you take financial advice from someone who dropped out of Harvard Business School in the middle of a recession to start a web site?
It might not be a bad idea. Alexa Von Tobel is a not-even-30 dynamo who managed to raise $1.1 million from major corporations to launch LearnVest.com, an online personal financial planner for women, a kind of Cosmo for checkbooks.
Alexa’s over the bridge in Manhattan, but we’re writing about her because our readers are creative types who love to dream up iPhone apps, start blogs, open online stores and the like—and while you can do all of those things by the seat of your pants, Alexa’s experience in developing a business plan and raising funds is indispensable to anyone hatching a new venture. Read the rest of this entry »
