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Women@Work Platform

Women@Work is dedicated to the economic advancement and self-reliance of women and girls around the world. The online platform includes content and initiatives focused on providing women at all stages of their careers concrete guidance on the key factors that can make or break success and ultimately happiness in work and life more broadly. Women@Work was created by Christina Van Houten, a long-time career woman and now senior executive in the technology sector, who saw the opportunity for a different approach that provides practical, achievable initiatives women can pursue to better understand the dynamics at play in the workplace and capitalize on them in various ways while also cultivating the best version of themselves. As part of its mission, Women@Work contributes 5% of all revenue to organizations that promote the economic advancement and self-reliance of women and girls around the world through scholarships, training, mentoring, and other related initiatives.

Women@Work features a collection of proprietary artwork created especially for the platform by watercolorist, Danielle Rose Fisher, who's based in New York. Meanwhile, all content strategy and editing is provided by Boston-based professional writer and producer, Annie Sinsabaugh.

Women@Work Books: Career Girl's Guides

The core content includes a book series of "Career Girl's Guides" focused on the three key factors, including navigating gender dynamics, creating a strong personal brand, and achieving a healthy work-family balance. Men@Work, A career girl's guide to navigating male archetypes, is the first book self-published by Christina in early October and sold through the Women@Work online store. The second book, Fashion@Work, A career girl's guide to creating a personal brand, is slated to launch in Spring 2018 while the third book, Babies@Work, A career girl's guide to surviving pregnancy and parenting, will release in late 2018. Christina is co-writing Babies@Work with OB/GYN and women's health leader, Pramila (Pramy) Yadav, MD. Each guide will be accompanied by related content, including worksheets and journals like the 52 Weeks of Success and Happiness that was published with Men@Work.

Women@Work Initiatives: Engagement & Training Opportunities

Beyond the core content, the Women@Work platform provides several engagement opportunities for women, including 'The Mentor Marketplace' that was recently launched as part of Men@Work. The Mentor Marketplace connects women from all professions around the world by offering a portfolio of "Supply," or experienced professionals from medicine, healthcare, law, technology, architecture and design, fashion and retail, finance, and other industries, with "Demand," or women looking for career advice in those fields. Demand women might be emerging women who are just completing school and embarking on their careers or more mature women looking for guidance as they transition from one job to another or one profession to another, or perhaps want to evolve back to work after taking time off to take care of their families. Through The Mentor Marketplace, Demand women are able to "shop" the portfolio of Supply women and "purchase" Office Hours with them, or a short call where they can pursue advice about various career-related topics, such as building their resume, dry-running an interview, exploring what classes to take to best prepare for a career, understanding how to get back in the game after taking a break, and more. A short guide provides an expanded list of suggested engagement scenarios and other advice for how to best capitalize on the time provided through the Office Hours sessions.

Other initiatives featured on Women@Work include Women@Work(shops), which include speaking engagements on navigating gender dynamics, creating a personal brand, surviving the demands of work and family, achieving leadership, success and happiness more broadly. Additionally, Women@Work(shops) will soon feature The One Day MBA, a curriculum purpose-built for working women at all stages of their career who are looking for a quick, impactful way to bolster their understanding of basic economic and business concepts. Available for download on the WomenAtWork.com site, The One Day MBA curriculum will feature a series of courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics, accounting, finance, investments and markets, marketing and sales, organizations and operations. Each course will provide a "short-cut" view on each subject, netting out the core concepts in a consumable way with the goal of helping women gain a basic framework for how things work in business and economics so that they are armed with better information for making decisions and being more effective in work and life more broadly. The short courses will be available on demand on line via one-page downloads and a series of podcasts. Meanwhile, Women@Work will sponsor live One Day MBA events, both in the form of webinars and in-person conferences in various cities.

Women@Work(outs) is an initiative focused on providing fitness advice for busy working women who are often constrained in terms of time and equipment. Created and moderated by award winning personal trainer, Nicole Goodwin, Women@Work(outs) includes practical, actionable guidance on how to get fit and be strong, both mentally and physically. Women@Work(outs) currently features the Give me 20! guide as well as the Women@Work(out) Wizard. In 2018, the platform will be expanded to include Superhero(ine) University, a full curriculum of fitness videos purpose built for busy working women and a Workout Wizard app that will enable women to generate an optimized workout routine based on their time available, equipment constraints, and relevant injuries. Each routine will leverage native device capabilities to guide women through the unique workout created especially for them given their unique situation on a given day. The app will also provide analytics tracking their progress over time and benchmarking data showing comparisons to peers. The Workout Wizard will also enable sharing and the opportunity to tap into training videos and ask Nicole for advice.

In December 2017, Women@Work will introduce, "Ask HeR," a new initiative focused on providing employee-based guidance on workplace policies and procedures, such a compensation and benefits, family and sick leave, terminations, finding a new job, and more. Ask HeR will be created and moderated by Alexis Harding, an experienced HR professional with a background in the private, public and non-profit sectors. The platform of content and advice will be published as a series of blogs pushed out through relevant channels and then made available on the site as a learning center accessible by all women. Additionally, those engaging with the material will be able to submit their unique questions to Alexis in the event that they are seeking advice.