Lunch Talk with Techstars' General Manager, Claudia Reuter
Honest Tea Entrepreneurship Suite (located in the SOM basement)
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In the upcoming new book Yes, You Can Do This! author and General Manager Americas East for worldwide entrepreneurial network, Techstars, Claudia Reuter, has created a new manifesto for women in the workforce. Reuter shares her story of re-entering the workforce after raising her two young children and the unique path she forged to create the career and life she wanted. In Yes, You Can Do This! Reuter invites other women to explore and to consider entrepreneurship by weaving a fictional narrative with practical take-away resources, so they too can create businesses with the rules they want, combat many of the challenges women face along much more nuanced career journeys, and step into leadership positions of their choosing.
"Right now, fewer than 10 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are women, less than 25 percent of corporate board directors are women, and only 17 percent of companies offer paid maternity leave," Reuter notes. "While we're making progress, at the current rate of change we're still 100 years away from gender parity in the workforce. I wrote this book because I believe that if we can support more women who pursue entrepreneurship, we can change those stats more quickly, and level the playing field for others in the process."
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