At this year’s BlogHer conference in New York City, Ava DuVernay delivered a keynote in which she gave advice on how to get ahead. In an industry where the acclaimed Selma director is a minority, she described using “the white guys” as a lead. “You gotta follow the white guys. Truly. They’ve got this thing wired,”…
On Wednesday afternoon, President Obama is hosting a town hall primarily with women who write for the site BlogHer to discuss issues like equal pay and the cost of childcare, pegged to Tax Day (helllllo April 15!) and Equal Pay Day.
A group of self-described ladybloggers recently attended a soiree on Manhattan's Central Park South to sip cocktails and feel empowered by Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Or so the company hoped.
Despite hopeful stats from a few years ago, men now outnumber women in the blogosphere by two to one. So why don't more women blog? One blogger thinks it's because we're too sweet — but we have some other ideas.
Maria Amelia Lopez, a Spanish great-grandmother who called herself "the world's oldest blogger," died today in her home at the age of 97, leaving more than 1.5 million readers from around the world mourning her passing.
Recession? Pshaw! Women's blog network BlogHer has netted an additional $7 million from investors including Venrock, NBC Universal's Peacock Equity, and Azure Capital. The new capital brings BlogHer's total funding to $15.5 million. [NY Times]
The New Yorks Times Sunday Styles Section published a long piece this weekend on the BlogHer conference that took place opposite Netroots Nation more than a week ago. While it was entitled "Blogging's Glass Ceiling" and touched on one of my favorite topics — the relative lack of prominence of female bloggers, and…
