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How Employers Can Better Serve Neurodiverse Employees in 2023

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Brad Anderson, founder of digital marketing and web development agency Fruition , partnered with the University of Colorado Boulder’s “ Leeds + TechStars Elevate ” program, where he connected with the first neurodiverse employee he hired, who had exceptional math and statistics abilities but was struggling to hold down a job.

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The 2023 Motherhood Penalty: The Sorry State Of Affairs For Working Women Continues

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In 2023, working women still confront barriers to progression in the workplace, and many will experience lower pay compared to their male counterparts. In some sectors — such as education, construction, and finance — the gender pay gap is above 22%. There are additional systemic disadvantages once they become mothers. In the U.K.,

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Vivian Tu Is Emboldening Women to Step Into Their Financial Power

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The holy trifecta of Barbie, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift showed the world the power of female spending in 2023. But thanks to social media trends like “girl math,” the stereotype still persists that women are shopaholics whose approach to finances is cutesy at best and wildly ineffective at worst. Turns out, most women aren’t.

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A Single Disaster Kills 40% Of Businesses — Stop Putting Off Contingency Planning

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Data published in the PwC Global Crisis and Resilience Survey 2023 reveals that 91% of companies have experienced at least one event, other than the pandemic, that has “disrupted their business in the last two years.” According to Bankrate, “between 2022 and 2023, wildfires accounted for over $3.2 Business Continuity Planning The U.S.

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Third of businesses say they are more likely to hire contractors this year

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Not only that, but a January report from KPMG & REC found that demand for temporary professionals continued to increase softly across the private sector towards the end of 2023 – boding well for this year’s hiring. Whilst in Finance and Accounting, job ads for contractors with skills in Business Analysis have seen a +25 percent increase.

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Jamie Fiore Higgins on Workplace Toxicity, Gender Discrimination and Why She Left Wall Street

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I didn’t come from money and a world of high finance. I want my four kids to have their own sense of agency. Not just in finance either; any industry that has wealth is the breeding ground for this kind of behavior. This article originally appeared in the March/April 2023 issue of SUCCESS magazine. I was fairly clueless.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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She is a 2023 CNN Hero, a 2022 Soros Justice Fellow and a 2019 JustLeadershipUSA Leading with Conviction Fellow Alumna. She recently won the 2023 Waterfront Award for Science and Technology and was recognized as one of White Page International’s Top 100 Asian Women Power Leaders.

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