Categories
The Stevie® Awards for Women in Business accept entries in scores of categories, grouped as follows.
Achievement Categories
These categories will recognize various types of achievements since the beginning of July 2024. Any organization - not just those that are owned or run by women - may submit nominations to categories J04, J07 and J08. Only organizations that are owned by women (at least 50%) or run by women (leader is a woman or at least 30% of executive team are women) may submit nominations to the other Achievement categories.
Achievement in Communications, Marketing or PR
These categories will recognize the achievements since July 1, 2024 of marketing and public relations programs and campaigns created for or by women.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Technology Categories (New for 2026)
These categories recognize outstanding achievements by women and women-led organizations in the development, implementation, leadership, and impact of artificial intelligence technologies since the beginning of July 2024.
Company/Organization (Women-Owned or -Led) Awards Categories
These categories will recognize the achievements since July 1, 2024 of women-owned and -run organizations worldwide. To be eligible for these categories, an organization must be at least 50% owned by one or more women, and/or have a woman as its chief executive and at least 40% of its management team comprised of women.
Individual Women Awards Categories
These categories will recognize the achievements since July 1, 2024 of individual female entrepreneurs, executives and employees.
Media (Developed for/by Women) Awards Categories
New Product & Service (Developed for/by Women) Awards Categories
These categories will recognize new and new-version products and services introduced to the marketplace since July 1, 2024, created by or for women.
Social Media Categories
These categories recognize innovation in social media content creation and moderation, management, and marketing, by and for women, since July 1, 2024.
Sustainability Categories
These categories will recognize innovative achievements by individual women and women-led or -owned organizations in resource and environmental sustainability since the beginning of July 2024.