Just as I was getting tired of talking about the necessity of women’s leadership – ever have the same feeling? – 13 year old Mo’Né Davis showed up, threw a 70 mph fastball, and reminded me why I care.
Women are people, she reminded me,
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Just the other day, I revisited the inspiring and igniting speech Carla Harris gave at the Take The Lead launch this spring at Arizona State University. Each time I hear her speech, I find a new message, I sing a new tune, and I define a new motto. This time around my new message, tune and motto are glued to one aspect: authenticity.
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Many people did not know the wonderful ballerina Misty Copeland until her debut in the first commercial released for Under Armour’s “I Will What I Want” campaign. It begins with Copeland flexing her impressive array of muscles to stand en pointe as the voiceover of a young girl reads a rejection letter from a ballet company telling her she had the wrong body and that she was too old.
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I was savoring my grilled salmon salad recently when my lunch partner’s casual comment made me drop my fork and get serious.
“They’ve asked me to be board chair at the Brooklyn Museum, I’d be the first woman in their 100-year history. But I don’t know if I can do it,” Elizabeth Sackler said. “What do you think I should do?”
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Did you know that tomorrow is #WomensEqualityDay? Women’s Equality Day celebrates the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which gave women in the U.S. the right to vote. This is indeed cause for celebration. But in this quest for leadership parity (especially if we are to acco
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During our most recent collaboration with The New York Times, we focused on women business owners at the helm of food-oriented ventures. (See “Why We Care About Female Chefs.”) The restaurant world some of them inhabit is anything but sweet, however. Women trying to work their way up
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For any avid athlete who’s tried a million and two sports, you know the pain and strife of a changing body that you have next to no control over.
I rode horses for seven years and played water polo for two, meaning that I felt I had the thighs of a lumberjack. I was constantly evading the mirrors, and if I did look, I almost never liked what I saw.
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How do we become leaders? How do we find the ability within ourselves to reach this goal of being considered good enough to lead? If we do know the answers to these questions, where can we find a place that will welcome us and put our leadership skills to use?
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On a hot Saturday morning in July, Taryn Garcia is busy organizing her colorful array of French pastries as the crowd grows at Smorgasburg, an open-air food market in the trendy Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg. Her macarons come in every hue her customers can imagine and, at several dollars per cookie, are high-end treats for those who patronize her food stall.
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And here is what I know from being a leader and working to advance women in society as well as the workplace: Women need each other. We need to learn the stories about how other women succeeded, the barriers they faced and how they overcame them. We need to know the barriers that our sisters and friends didn’t overcome,
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At the beginning of July, a few friends and I were discussing Emma Watson’s new position as UN Goodwill Ambassador. In reality, the conversation was half spent searching for what a Goodwill Ambassador was, followed by the dissection of whether Ms. Watson, sans celebrity status, is suited for the position.
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After a whirlwind year of creating an organization, hosting an amazing launch, and being overwhelmed with gratitude for the scores of organizations and individuals who have supported our cause, donated to it, and who want to align with Take The Lead’s mission and programs, we’ve been taking stock.
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