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Student loan relief is over. Thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision to stop President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, student loan debt is back to haunt the collective. Those who will feel it the most? The women who make up ⅔ of America’s $1.54 trillion in student loan debt...

This story is part of a new series of features on the subject of success, Benzinga Inspire. Although women make up 50% of the human population, they are massively underrepresented in leadership roles, although the trend is, albeit very slowly, starting to shift. This year, for the first time...

Defying the odds and stereotypes across history, women have risen to the occasion, making a mark in whichever field they engage in. Benzinga took a look at some of the achievements of women to commemorate International Women's Day, observed on March 8, and Women's...

Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 14's Emergency SOS service via satellite feature helped save two stranded women in the Canadian province of British Columbia. According to a report by the Times Colonist, the women were returning to Alberta, Canada, and found that a...

Poland's Iga Swiatek won the U.S. Open women's singles final after defeating Ons Jabeur of Tunisia on Saturday at the Arthur Ashe Stadium. The number one ranked women's tennis player, Swiatek won 12 of the first 14 points to go up 3-0 in eight minutes and won the first set in...

Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google has agreed to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit covering close to 15,500 female employees by paying $118 million.  Law firms Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP and Altshuler Berzon LLP announced the settlement on Friday, adding that an...

When it comes to receiving capital for their businesses, women have been at a disadvantage. However, things are changing in the right direction. Women are now part of the conversation when it comes to removing artificial barriers imposed by those who control capital. How is it possible that...

Thirteen female CEOs took their companies public in the first half of 2019, which represents 15% of all companies that went public during that time and the highest proportion since at least 2014, according to CNBC. What Happened The number of women-led newly public companies is already close to...

Wednesday marks International Women's Day, a time when individual people are called to help forge a better working world comprised of a more inclusive, gender equal environment. Needless to say, the topic of gender cap also comes to mind. The organization is calling for people to be leaders within...

To say that men and women take a different approach to money management would be an understatement. Within the broad realm of financing, investing strategy is just one category that represents this trend. Scottrade recently released a survey highlighting the gender differences in investing....

Benzinga recently had a chance to follow up with the managing director of the trader group at TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. (NYSE: AMTD), Nicole Sherrod, on a study published earlier this year on women and investing trends. The study illustrated that new trends have begun emerging pointing toward...

According to "The 2014 State of Women-Owned Business Report," there are approximately 9.1 million businesses owned by women in the United States. Since 1997, there has been an average increase of 591 women-owned businesses each day. In honor of Women’s Entrepreneurship Day,...

During an interview with The Atlantic, last week, PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) CEO Indra Nooyi told a crowd at the Aspen Ideas Festival that women “can't have it all,” meaning that you can't always succeed at both your home life and work life. “We pretend we can have it all,...