In 2003, while watching her niece playing netball uncomfortably in a traditional hijab and veil, Aheda Zanetti, founder of Ahiida – had a stroke of genius. She saw a gap…
A Latvian company, ALINA works primarily with the coatings industry and markets a new, cutting-edge material that prevents a range of microbes, fungi, and moulds from growing on the exterior…
Alivia is a direct-to-consumer contemporary apparel brand making radiant womenswear inspired by the expressions of creators with developmental disabilities. Alivia gives a voice and platform to those with disabilities, sharing…
Altså is a quarterly feminist magazine which launched on 8th March 2019, coinciding with International Women’s Day. Founder, Ida Eliassen-Coker, has set out her mission to bring the latest, most…
This venture makes amazing natural balms for those who live life to the full in the great outdoors. The company was created by Jo Higgins, an inspirational Kiwi who knows…
More female startup founders are blowing up conventional ideas that having a newborn and building a startup don’t mix. In late January, Amy Nelson, the founder of the Riveter co-working network, posted an ultrasound on Twitter. “That’s my baby girl,” she wrote. “She arrives in June … #proudmama.”
Esta emprendedora colombiana fundó Arukay, empresa que fue reconocida por WeXchange como uno de los emprendimientos #STEM más dinámicos e innovadores de Latinoamérica. Propone una manera distinta de educación, conectada con los nuevos tiempos.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It’s spring, and love is in the air — which means it’s also wedding season.
HONG KONG — The woman credited with creating the so-called burkini said the controversy over efforts to ban the full-body bathing suit worn by some Muslim women has helped bolster demand for her invention, which she said was not meant to be a political statement.
Aheda Zanetti, the Lebanese-Australian inventor of the swimsuit, said officials in more than a dozen French beach towns seeking to prevent women from covering up have misconstrued the purpose of the bathing suit.