Excerpted from the Fairygodboss.com
There are hundreds of resources online for women looking for support, education, events and other resources to advance their careers. The following organizations have a lot of career advice to offer women in the workplace. Some are focused on particular industries, while others are focused on education, students or span all industries.
- 100 Women in Hedge Funds is a global association of more than 10,000 professional women.
- Birds on the Blog is a glossy online magazine for business women, written by business women.
- Bossed Up provides resources, expert training and community for women at work.
- Career Contessa is an online career development and mentorship platform.
- Catalyst is the leading nonprofit organization with a mission to accelerate progress for women through workplace inclusion.
- CEW is a global network of beauty professionals who create a forum for collaboration, idea exchange and growth.
- ChickTech creates hands-on tech events to empower women to stay in tech and encourage girls to join!
- Classy Career Girl has a mission to help 2,000 women launch their dream careers & businesses by 2018.
- Committee of 200 tries to foster, celebrate and advance women’s leadership in business.
- Corporette provides fashion, lifestyle and career advice for “overachieving chicks”.
- Daily Worth provides financial advice and resources to women looking to better manage their money.
- Dreamers Doers is a membership community of entrepreneurial women providing resources, education and networking opportunities.
- Emerging Women provides resources and community for women looking to help women lead, start and grow their own businesses in a way that integrates core feminine values.
- Financial Women’s Association is a nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate the leadership and success of women across the financial community by offering educational programming and content.
- Girls Who Code offers free educational programs and after-school communities for teenage girls interested in learning how to code.
- Grace Institute is a nonprofit dedicated to providing tuition-free job training and placement services for economically disadvantaged women.
- HerAgenda is a platform working to “bridge the gap between ambition and achievement for millennial women”.
- iRelaunch is an advocate for professionals returning to the workplace after a career break providing content and education since 2007.
- I Want Her Job is an online community of women featuring career conversations for independent-thinking women.
- LadyBoss is a platform for professional growth, for women in creative industries.
- LeanIn is a nonprofit that supports women through community, education and circles of small groups.
- Momentum is a non-profit providing leadership, education and advocacy to support mothers in meeting today’s personal and professional challenges.
- Monarq has a mission to empower more females to start, fund and grow successful startup businesses.
- Ms. Career Girl aims to help ambitious young professional women find passion in their profession, or a profession out of their passions.
- Ms. JD is dedicated to the success of women in law, and provides resources for students as well as professionals.
- National Association of Women Lawyers has a mission to provide leadership and resources to advance women in the legal profession.
- Network of Executive Women is a learning and leadership community offering learning, events, best practices and reseach and leadership development programs to advance women.
- Penelope Trunk offers career and life advice on her blog which also features online coaching & courses.
- Pink Petro is a global membership community of women working in the energy industry.
- She Owns It celebrates, connects and supports women entrepreneurs.
- Take the Lead Women is a nonprofit whose ambition is gender parity in leadership.
- The Boss Network has a mission to promote and encourage the small business spirit and career development of women through event-based and online networking.
- The Broadsheet is a daily newsletter by Fortune that provides news and current events information about women leaders and women in the workplace.
- The Everygirl is on online resource to help “shape the creative, career-driven woman to experience her life better lived.”
- The Forte Foundation is a nonprofit consortium of business schools and companies who are working together to launch women into fulfilling, significant careers.
- The Girls’ Lounge is a “go to” destination at industry conferences for women to connect, inspire and collaborate on changes they want to see in the workplace.
- The Li.st is a “membership and visibility platform for professional women.”
- Women 2.0 is a community of women working in technology, providing career and startup advice.
- Women of Influence produces events across the country. Their programs serve to “fill the gap for women looking for mentors and like-minded individuals.”
- Women Who Code is a nonprofit whose mission is to help women engineers build the careers they want.
- Working Mother is a “mentor, role model and advocate for the country’s more than 17 million moms who are devoted to their families and committed to their careers.”
- WorkMuse helps businesses and individuals find work-life balance through job-sharing opportunities.
