There it is: The F Word. Feminism is a powerful word. For some, it signifies a chance to succeed, or to be heard. For others, it conjures up images of women lording over men in some sort of epic revenge coup. 

In the United States alone there are over 11.3 million female-owned businesses. But, how do they compare to those run by men?

So, you’ve heard all the wonderful advice about how you need to be using Pinterest to grow your business’s audience, and you’ve created a Pinterest account…but you’re not sure what to do next. How do you actually start gaining traction and building an audience?

The time has finally come to let you in on a little secret that I’ve been keeping from you… After 2 years in business as the Secret Women’s Business Academy, I’ve decided it’s time to revamp, rebrand and rename!

In business, we review progress on an annual basis. We use the one-year mark as an anniversary, a milestone, a point of achievement…and we analyse that same period of time to assess how we have performed, where our strengths lie, and in what ways we can improve.

There is a worldwide movement happening right now, and it’s been more than a century in the making. In 1903, British Suffragettes began protesting for the right to vote. The female suffrage movement in Australia started making headway in the late 19th Century, until all women were finally able to vote and stand for parliament in 1923.

The tide is shifting, ladies. We can no longer be suppressed, and we’re floating to the top of the barrel.Female entrepreneurship is growing faster than that of male business ownership, with a rise of 7.6% over the past ten years (compared to .3% in men).

Every year, Oxford bestows its Word of the Year title on “a word or expression that is judged to reflect the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the passing year…” It’s a word that has “…lasting potential as a term of cultural significance.”

There’s no such thing as universal beauty. Surely, some women are considered to be more attractive than others, but if you ask anyone to name the most beautiful woman in the world, you would lose track of the many answers.