The Wing Gets $75 Million to Expand Its Working Women Collective
Sequoia Capital leads the latest funding round for the two-year-old company to scale its network physically and digitally.
Audrey Gelman and Lauren Kassan amid the construction of an addition to their Wing SoHo co-working space.
Photographer: Dolly Faibyshev/Redux for Bloomberg Businessweek
On a recent Monday evening in New York’s Flatiron district, dozens of women in pantsuits and pumps, beanies and bandannas, materialize as if conjured from the sidewalks. They gather upstairs in an airy 12th-floor penthouse to hear Rebecca Traister, a New York magazine staff writer Anne Lamott called “the most brilliant voice on feminism in this country,” discuss the power—and limitations—of women’s rage.
“Why is capitalism the only system feminism can exist within?” she asks the audience. The room is silent. There’s a shifting of bodies.