Shannon Eastin is the first woman to referee a National Football League game.
During the 2008 presidential election, Marianne Schnall’s then 8 year old daughter asked her, “Why haven’t we ever had a woman president?” Unable to provide an answer, Schnall set out on a journey to find one. A widely published writer and interviewer, and Founder of Feminist.com, Schnall interviewed influential leaders and thinkers across all sectors for her book, What Will It Take to Make a Woman President: Conversations About Women, Leadership and Power (Seal Press, November 2013). These conversations explore what needs to change in order to finally elect a woman into the White House.
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Dr. Danielle N. Lee blogs at Scientific American’s website as The Urban Scientist, writing on issues of urban ecology, evolutionary biology & diversity in the sciences. In 2009, she was named the Diversity Scholars Award recipient by the American Institute of Biological Sciences for her contributions to science and promoting diversity within the field.
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Last week, I had the opportunity to work with a leadership team at a high tech company in California. The goal was to build trusting relationships across the team and to focus on future opportunities for the business. I stayed behind one of the days to observe some of the leaders take part in a “career board of directors” panel. “What is that?” you might ask. It’s a new program they’re trying out, designed to give career advice and increased visibility to junior staff within the organization. What transpired next surprised me…
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My oldest son is about to turn forty-five and that’s prompted me to reflect on how far women have come since his birth in early 1969.
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Reignite your childhood dreams by joining our free livestream of the Take The Lead Challenge Launch Event on Feb. 19th. Our event will inspire you with some of the top thought leaders and give you tools to chart a new course for your life and career.
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Imagine if you could use Twitter to end gender inequality. Now imagine you could do that through an extra credit assignment for school. This #ExtraCredit tweet chat featuring the Take The Lead Challenge Launch Event on Feb. 19 does both. This is extra credit like you’ve never seen it before.
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It’s a new year! Why not strengthen your feminist muscle even more by attending the Take The Lead Challenge Launch Event live at the amazing Gammage Auditorium at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona?
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Take The Lead presents the Instagram Video Challenge! We will be looking for videos that best convey the mission of Take The Lead: prepare, develop, inspire and propel women to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025.
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So you’ve got your digital ticket, and the livestream viewing party you are planning is coming together. So now what?
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Shayla Price is also known by many as the “Scholarship Queen” due to the fact that she has helped more than 5,000 students apply for college scholarships. Shayla herself didn’t apply for any student loans when she went to college because she earned $100,000 for herself in scholarship money.
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A year from now, looking back on 2014, what do you want this year to have been about?
I’d like to see us get out of our own way, get out ahead of the internal fears, “shoulds” and “what if’s” that too often hamstring our change-making efforts and distract from the tasks before us. With women so vastly underrepresented in our major institutions and poorly represented in media, we have plenty of things working against us. We don’t want to work against ourselves, too.
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