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Get Out The Vote: Women Are A Crucial Element in 2024 Election

As the 2024 presidential election in November nears, the importance of voting is heightened and the efforts to increase voter turnout become crucial.

Voters identifying as women are key to the election, as more women than men turn out to vote. Efforts to get more women elected and also for more women to vote in the 2024 election are in full swing.

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Belonging: Ending Inequities, Tropes For AANHPI Women in Workplace

What could you do with an extra $267,760 over a lifetime? Buy a home, perhaps, repay student loans, start a business, leave a legacy, found a nonprofit, donate to a worthwhile cause.

The average Asian American, Native Hawaiian Pacific Island woman will likely never know, as that is what this group of women working full time will lose due to the wage gap over a lifetime, according to the National Women’s Law Center.

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Applauding Good Work: Activists Advocating For Women, Girls Across Generations

The first Chicago Foundation For Women award went to Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2005, at the age of 72, when she was a Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Since then, 125 women leaders have been honored, and this year, 17-year-old Azariah Baker, Youth Leader of A Long Walk Home, won the Vanguard Award.

“I have been encouraged by so many women in my life and am so thankful,” says Baker, an artist and activist, senior at George Washington College Prep High School, who is attending Spelman College in the fall. “You see women here doing everything in their fullness. My work is an ode to my Black experience.”

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The Future Is NOW: Black Leader Leads Organization Into Intersectional Future

The future looks beautiful to Christian Nunes, MBA, MS, LCSW,  president of the National Organization of Women, the 57-year-old organization built from the grassroots to address gender inequality at the height of the civil rights movement.

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Taking Action: How Best To Lead In The Post-Roe Workplace?

Regardless of where the top tier leaders in an organization stand personally on the U.S. Supreme Court revocation of abortion rights in the overturning of Roe v. Wade, employees, contractors, consumers and clients will be affected. Some will be affected severely and most will be women.

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Moving Forward in Equity: Women in New Administration In Era of Economic Recovery

“Women have to be front and center in all of our discussions,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot declares in a virtual panel discussion hours before the inauguration of Joe Biden as President of the United States, where a cascade of firsts for women and BIPOC were literally center stage.

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Women Take The Lead: 2020 Sets Records in Representation in U.S.

“Dream with ambition, lead with conviction, and see yourself in a way that others might not see you, simply because they’ve never seen it before. And we will applaud you every step of the way.”

These were the stunning words from the next and first Madam Vice President, Kamala Harris, from a Delaware stage before introducing President Elect Joe Biden after the election results were announced.

“But while I may be the first woman in this office, I won’t be the last. Because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities,” Harris said.

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How To Fight Hate: CEO, Founder On The Positive Way Forward Now

Dr. Joynicole Martinez does not want to talk about her many advanced degrees. For the record, the founder and CEO of The Alchemist Agency has seven. Two bachelors degrees, three masters degrees and two doctorates.

Martinez wants to talk about cultural change, racial, gender and economic equity and her mission to disrupt white nationalism and supremacy, racism, sexism and social injustice.

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Voting Booths Half Empty: Call to Action for Women Voting 2020

Half of the women just didn’t show up.

Forty-nine million of the 118 million women eligible to vote in 2018 opted out. That can’t happen again in 2020.

Along with many other voting initiatives, TAG10 Women Vote is doing everything they can as a non-profit organization to make sure history does not repeat itself.

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Conventional Women: Non-Partisan RNC, DNC Highlights of Women Leaders

The virtual national conventions for both the Democratic and Republican parties were unprecedented and historic in many ways.

Due to COVID-19, there were no in-person gatherings of throngs of delegates, speakers and supporters wearing funny hats and carrying signs. The handling of videos, recorded vignettes plus live and recorded speeches lent a tone of slick production values to both recent weeks of conventions.

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In tribute to female mayors, taking the lead

Issue 136 — July 20, 2020

The passing of Civil Rights leader and legend Congressman John Lewis made me deeply sad. A wave of great lions and lionesses of the movement for racial equality is moving on just as the country is at the crossroads. Either we’ll make the systemic change that they visualized, that they risked their very lives for, or we’ll let the elements of xenophobia take us back to pre-Rosa Parks days. As tributes to Lewis fill the media, I became aware that his career in elective office started on the Atlanta City Council.

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How To Support Black Businesses With Strategies, Funding, Grants

In academics, economics, business, finance, law, and practically all other spheres, Black people are under-represented. It has started a revolution of sorts as protests take place across the U.S. for equality.

Black Lives Matter is affecting the world in a profound way, bringing the plight of African Americans into the limelight. Its effects are far-reaching, and it is occurring in tandem with the COVID-19 pandemic to make it even more difficult to run a successful business, but there are strategies to fill these gaps.

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