Nurturing a Baby and a Start-Up Business

The Start-Up Loans Company, which administers the scheme and is chaired by Dragon’s Den entrepreneur James Caan, has helped to start 1,000 new businesses in the last month alone.

Charlottetown is mulling city-designated parking spots for pregnant women and new parents, raising questions as to where the line should be drawn on parking accommodation — and how such a thing would be enforced. If implemented, Charlottetown may be the first Canadian city to reserve street parking downtown for expectant mothers and parents with small kids, something big box stores across the country have been doing for a while.

In the last few years, the phenomena of China's "leftover women" — that is, women over the age of 28 who are unmarried — has become a hot topic amongst China and China-watchers.

In an era of engaged citizens, oil sands companies look to clean up their image by emphasizing high tech and motherhood issues

Sallie Krawcheck, the former head of global wealth management at Merrill Lynch, has been quiet about her next career move since leaving Wall Street.   We've been eager to find out what she will do next. 

We all keep hearing that Gen Y’s are the “entrepreneurship generation,” but new research states otherwise. I worked with Monster.com on a new study focused on multi-generational worker attitudes to uncover the state of entrepreneurship through the eyes of different generations of workers.

The rapid evolution of retirement in America shows no signs of slowing. The World War II generation (or The Greatest Generation) often lived in the same house until they either died or were moved to a nursing home, but this is now far less common. 

Our mental image of the high-tech entrepreneur is still that of a young man in a hoodie. What about the women? This mental image may be the most exclusionary factor of all.