In Celebration of Women's History Month, Fastweb Highlights Scholarships to Support the Next Generation of Female Leaders

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Mar 01, 2017, 08:00 ET

CHICAGO, March 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Fastweb (www.fastweb.com), the leading website for scholarship and financial aid information and a member of the Monster network, supports the next generation of women leaders in meeting their educational goals in honor of Women's History Month.

According to the National Woman's History Project, the 2017 Women's History Month theme is, "Honoring Trailblazing Women in Labor and Business." This theme honors women who have successfully challenged the role of women in both business and the paid labor force.

To support and inspire current and future female college students, Fastweb brings together a variety of scholarship opportunities for women in their new resource, Scholarships for Women. This valuable compilation outlines scholarship opportunities in educational areas such as journalism, economics, medicine, STEM fields and more. These scholarships are accepting applications today, and offer various award amounts to help students pay for school.

More scholarship programs for all students can be found on Fastweb.com. Fastweb provides helpful and insightful online resources to help students find ways to fund their education. Resources are available online and always at no charge.

About Fastweb:

Fastweb, a top site in the Monster Worldwide network, is the nation's recognized leader in helping students pay for school, by providing scholarship and financial aid information, as well as information on jobs and internships. One out of three college-bound seniors use the site and more than 50 million users have benefitted from Fastweb's information and services. Fastweb lets students create personalized profiles that can be matched against its expansive databases of colleges and scholarships. As the oldest and most popular free online scholarship matching service, the database has more than 1.5 million scholarships totaling over $3.4 billion. To learn more about Fastweb, visit www.fastweb.com and follow Fastweb on social media for the latest on paying for school all year long: Twitter (at @PayingForSchool); Facebook; Pinterest; Google+.

About Monster Worldwide:

Monster Worldwide, Inc. is a global leader in connecting people to jobs, wherever they are. For more than 20 years, Monster has helped people improve their lives with better jobs, and employers find the best talent. Today, the company offers services in more than 40 countries, providing some of the broadest, most sophisticated job seeking, career management, recruitment and talent management capabilities. Monster continues its pioneering work of transforming the recruiting industry with advanced technology using intelligent digital, social and mobile solutions, including our flagship website monster.com® and a vast array of products and services. For more information, visit monster.com/about.

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