Marni Zabarsky, First Female Saturation Diver, Gulf of Mexico
When she first started diving commercially [in 1996], one of the supervisors at the company she was diving for told her she was too pretty...
Women
Why Women Are Key for Empowering Other Women
I was a child raised in a country ravaged by war. In instances when the world was bleak, I saw color in the skies, not...
America Needs Women in Energy
In 2007 I chaired four energy events for the centennial celebration of Oklahoma’s statehood. The events were a salute to the past, present, future, and...
The Million Women Mentor
Forty years in a male-dominated, cyclical and volatile industry is quite an accomplishment for a female entrepreneur and, last year, Donna Fujimoto Cole, founder and...
Lady with the Iron Ring: An Engineer’s Memoir of Hope, Luck and Success
It was a shock to the University of British Columbia (UBC) Engineering Undergraduate Society that the first-year class of 1974 had 14 women. Up to...
Power Surge: Women in Geothermal Energy
Headlines over the past few years have shown that we are far behind when it comes to taking definitive action to save our environment. Activists...
Women Add to a Board’s “Cognitive Diversity”
After her decades-long career in finance, Vanessa C.L. Chang now sits on the boards of two electric utilities, Edison International and Southern California Edison Company,...
Elevating Feminine Leadership for Sustainable Results
What Drives You? As a coach who professionally explores purpose and intentions, I felt a sense of glee over Oilwoman’s lead question for this article....
Women at Work
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