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The 2023 issue

The Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts in 2023

The Women’s Edge and Globe Magazine celebrate the state’s leading companies and nonprofits run by women.

Reshma Kewalramani, president and CEO of Vertex

How a career pivot catapulted Vertex’s CEO to the top of the biotech world

By Janelle Nanos

Carla Brodley at the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex at Northeastern University in October.

Where are the women in tech and AI?

Just after learning October 9 that she’d won a Nobel Prize, Claudia Goldin, at home, speaks with a reporter.

Advice from the Nobel Prize winner who’s seen the ‘Barbie’ movie multiple times

By Shirley Leung

How a ‘broken rung’ can stop women in middle of the career ladder

By Sarah Shemkus

Loretta J. Ross teaches “White Supremacy in the Age of Trump” at Smith College in Northampton.

Loretta Ross doesn’t believe in cancel culture

By Tiana Woodard

From left: Julie Chen of UMass Lowell, Marisa Kelly of Suffolk, and Pam Eddinger of Bunker Hill

What keeps Boston’s higher ed leaders awake at night? What gives them hope?

By Shirley Leung

Linda Chavers with her mother around 2010.

My mom had always been my biggest fan. Now it was my turn to cheer her on.

By Linda Chavers

We’ve earned these wrinkles. We don’t need to hide them.

By Alyssa Giacobbe

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Past honorees and coverage

The Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts 2022

The 2021 Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts

The 2020 Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts

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Barbara Clarke began investing in women-owned companies in 2013.

‘Write the damn check’: How female funders can help women entrepreneurs grow

Nine key skills all effective leaders tend to showcase

Follow this advice and negotiate the pay you deserve

Top row from left: Claire Spofford, Frederica M. Williams, and Lisa S. Wieland. Bottom row from left: Maura Hughes, Sarah Spillane, and Susan W. Murley.

‘Resist the temptation to fit the mold’

Women like (from left) Shamaiah Turner, Shara Noldseiro, and Jenaya Pina-Nelson have a brighter future, thanks to efforts to move females into well-paying construction trades.

Why women are finally starting to get construction jobs in Mass.

A local movement is paving the way for female electricians, plumbers, carpenters, bricklayers, and more.