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Women In
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And we’re back. Welcome to our newsletter inspired by the Journal’s Women In event series. To our new subscribers, it’s great to have you here. This newsletter aims to keep you current on important stories in business and beyond, curate good reads you might have missed, and connect you with other women who are doing big things. We also want to get to know you, and are eager to hear about the stories and topics that interest you right now.
When it comes to doing big things with no apologies, Eileen Fisher stands out. She joined me onstage at the Journal’s Future of Everything Festival last month to talk about her clothing line, career and pioneering business model. We also talked about how her design viewpoint, centered around the kimono, has evolved and endured since her 1980s debut and whether we might see a presidential candidate wearing her knits on the campaign trail. (“On weekends” they do already, she noted.)
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Eileen Fisher responds to a question from WSJ's Nikki Waller. PHOTO: WSJ
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More striking is the extent to which Fisher conducts life and business on her own terms. She is deliberate when deciding how much to pack into her workdays and the workdays of her employees, and protects her own ability to focus. Weekend emails are a no-no at the company, and internal meetings begin with a Tibetan bowl chime and a brief meditation. (Curious? Download this app for a virtual chime.)
Zen aside, Fisher has set bold sustainability targets that lead the fashion industry. The company has re-thought the supply chain, chemicals, farming methods and practices used in making her garments. She’s also actively telling her customers to buy less, rare for a CEO, particularly in fashion. “Stop and breathe before shopping,” she said. “That’s my advice.”
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Fisher was just one of the world-changing women who took the stage at our Future of Everything gathering, and you’ll read about more of them below. First, we want to hear how you are setting your own terms in life and business. Our question: What is the core belief or credo in your career, and how have you stuck to it in the face of challenges? Tell us by replying to this note, and we’ll feature selected responses in an upcoming newsletter.
— Nikki Waller, Editor, Live Journalism and Special Coverage
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CEO Sima Sistani in conversation with WSJ's Joanna Stern. PHOTO: WSJ
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Women of the future: Many readers joined us at the Future of Everything Festival in May in New York City, which gathered big thinkers and leaders spanning technology, style and culture for groundbreaking conversations. Some highlights:
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Imogen Heap, the singer-songwriter, showed us the tech that is changing the music industry. (read more)
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Eve Ensler, the 'Vagina Monologues' author, talked about redefining manliness. (read more)
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Sima Sistani, co-founder of the Houseparty video chat app, forecast a 'loneliness epidemic' ahead. (read more)
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Expanding parental leave: Employers are expanding parental-leave offerings for men and encouraging them to take it, writes Sue Shellenbarger. Meantime, JP Morgan Chase & Co. settled a parental-leave discrimination claim, ensuring its policy will apply equally.
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The future of automation and women at work: Automation could force more than 100 million women globally to find new occupations by 2030, according to a study from McKinsey Global Institute.
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CEOs are doing just fine: A Wall Street Journal analyis found CEO pay to be only loosely correlated with actual company performance. Investors are grappling with a better way to cut through the complexity of CEO compensation.
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The sandwich generation: More adult children are making the decision to move in with their aging parents, leaving banks with the challenge of figuring out loan rates for multigenerational homes.
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U.S. women’s soccer players strike a new play: Three members of the U.S. Women’s National Team and former teammate Meghan Klingenberg (above) are launching a clothing company focused on sustainablilty and promoting female business owners.
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Don't call it a comeback: Once one of the few women managing a hedge fund, Anne Dias is considering a return to money management. Only 4% of new hedge funds were founded or co-founded by women from 2013 to 2017.
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Resilience: Doctors said Megan Crowley would die before she reached high school due to a rare genetic disease. They were wrong. Crowley, a recent college graduate from University of Notre Dame, persevered through school and finished with a 4.0 average. Biotech medicines are enabling some to lead full lives once rarely imagained. For Crowley, that means looking forward to a more independent life as an adult.
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A day in the life: Regina Hall has worked in acting for over two decades, but her midcareer roles have brought her even more notoriety. From Love & Basketball to the 2017 box office hit Girls Trip, Hall has been in 39 productions and is far from slowing down. WSJ. Magazine followed along as Hall darted from interviews to live tapings.
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Computer love. For teens, relationships where the couple never meets other than online are becoming more common. Generation Z is redefining the nature of relationships as more of their activities flourish on social and chat apps.
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