31 Days of Notable Women- Mary Schapiro, Securities & Exchange Commission

Mary Schapiro, the current Chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, resides in Washington,DC. Her educational background is as follows: BA/BS from Franklin & Marshall College; JD from George Washington University.

Schapiro has spent much of the year trying to overcome the results of past lax regulatory enforcement. From excavating the Bernie Madoff fraud to investigating the ratings agencies’ possible role in the financial crisis, Schapiro is striving to bring order to the most important financial-regulatory house in the world. Most recently she enjoyed a victory: the passage of a long-sought, though somewhat controversial, rule that allows shareholders to have influence over the makeup of a public company’s board of directors.

Source cited: http://www.forbes.com/profile/mary-schapiro

31 Days of Notable Women- The World’s Most Powerful Woman

According to Forbes list of the “World’s Most Powerful Women of 2010”, Angela Merkel, is the most powerful woman on the planet. Angela Merkel is the Chancellor of Germany, who oversees Europe’s largest economy. Renowned free-market champion and favorite of big business, boasts nine public companies with annual sales in excess of $70 billion. In all, there are 57 German companies on the Forbes Global 2000 ranking of the world’s largest public companies, with aggregate sales of $1.7 trillion.

Source cited: http://www.forbes.com/profile/angela-merkel

31 Days of Notable women-Gail Kelly, businesswoman par excellence

Gail Kelly, Chief Executive at Westpac (Education: BA/BS,University of Cape Town)

As head of Australia’s second-largest bank, Westpac, with $551 billion in assets and $15.9 billion in revenue, and the country’s most influential businesswoman, the native South African has an outsized public profile.

Source cited: http://www.forbes.com/profile/gail-kelly#comments

FREE “Connecting Women to Power” Business Conference- March 30th

This free conference is being sponsored by the State Board of Equalization on March 30th at Carson, California.

Register Now for the FREE “Connecting Women to Power” Business Conference on Wednesday, March 30, 2011 from 8:30am to 6:30pm.

The keynote speakers will be: Janice Howroyd, CEO of the Act One Group; Maria Marin, International Motivational Speaker and Negotiation Expert, and Rosario Marin, Former Treasurer of the United States.

Seminar location: California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1000 E. Victoria Street, Carson, CA 90747

Register online at: http://www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/wsched.htm
or by phone: 888-847-9652

“31 Days of Notable Women” my special blog is coming for Women’s History Month!

Every March I post one blog per day on notable women and their amazing accomplishments. Come join me to learn about women in science, women inventors, politicians and poets, freedom fighters and artists.

Many of these women have been buried in history, their stories ignored or never told…..meet amazing people whose voices have been silenced, but who are finally being given the credit they deserve!

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Diane Tegarden

Looking for modern day women inventors….

As many of you may know, during Women’s History month in March I blog every day about amazing but unheralded women who are inventors, artists, writers, political leaders, scientists, pilots, world leaders, doctors, astronomers and authors. These are women who have made history but not gotten the acclaim they deserve. I call the blog “31 Days of Notable Women”.

Here’s your chance to be glorified! If you are (or know of) a woman whose time has come, please email me at rosefirewalker@aol.com so I can give you the attention you so justly deserve. I’ll need time to research and write your short bio, so let’s get the ball rolling.

Looking forward to getting to know some of you amazing women,
Diane Tegarden

Forbes 5th Most Powerful Woman- Ho Ching- 31 Days of Notable Women

Ho Ching, the fifth most powerful woman on Forbes’ Most Powerful Woman 2009 list, leads Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, Tamasek, which, under her guidance, has delivered incredible annual returns of 18%.

Source cited: http://www.woopidoo.com/reviews/news/women/2009.htm