Category: Wine

Report: Gender gap widens in key food industry leadership roles

The findings come as the Women’s Foodservice Forum gathers in Dallas to drive change. Hiring and promotions are the two biggest levers for changing the representation of women in the workforce, yet women remain underrepresented across the corporate pipeline, according to the 2018 “Women in the Workplace” report by McKinsey & Company. “Since 2015, the first year of this study, corporate America has made almost no progress improving women’s representation. Women are underrepresented at every level, and women of color are the most underrepresented group...

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What We Ignore When We Toast the ‘Top Five’ Women in Whiskey

https://vinepair.com/Mackenzie FeganMarch 9, 2019 Heather Greene needs another article about women in whiskey like she needs a raging case of shingles. ‘Top Women You Should Know in This Industry.’ ‘Top Five Women Who Are Busting It Up.’ It drives me nuts,” says Greene, the author of “Whiskey Distilled: A Populist Guide to the Water of Life” and all-around whiskey expert. “Are women supposed to be inspired just because another woman is in the job? That doesn’t mean anything to me. I’m not interested in women for women’s...

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Women who shaped whisky history

While the whisky industry was, for a long time, seen as male preserve there were some talented women who played leading roles at major brands. Fred Minnick shines a light on their groundbreaking work. Women’s role in whisky has evolved drastically over the years. From the boardrooms to the warehouses and from the branding teams to the whisky clubs, women are situated firmly in the ranks of both the industry’s rising stars and coveted target audiences. But it wasn’t always this way. When I researched my book, Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon,...

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