Noted anthropologist Margaret Mead once said: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
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Kristen Griest and Shaye Haver were hailed as trailblazers when they became the first women to graduate from the Army’s grueling Ranger School last month. They showed the Army what it was possible for women to achieve—and now we know the Army was paying attention.
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Sure, we can all agree that sexual harassment and Mad Men-era sexism have no place in a modern office. But what about when, say, someone jokes about women being overly emotional—that’s all in good fun, right? And women who get offended by it need to calm down and get a sense of humor, right?
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced last week that she’s pregnant with twin girls. Just as she did with her first pregnancy in 2012, Mayer wrote on her Tumblr that she’ll be “taking limited time away and working throughout” her maternity leave. Last time, “limited time away” meant Mayer was out of the office for just two weeks after giving birth.
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Civil rights activist Amelia Boynton Robinson passed away on Wednesday at the age of 104.
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On Sunday night, Jessica Mendoza became the first woman to announce a Sunday Night Baseball broadcast for ESPN. And she killed it.
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If you think gender equality has a ways to go in the United States, just be grateful we’re not Japan. The World Economic Forum ranks Japan 104th out of 142 countries assessed in its Gender Gap Index, and women are only 11 percent of Japan’s managers and supervisors.
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When Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg emerged from their private worlds of practice and teaching onto the public stage in the early 1970’s, the women’s movement was actively moving to become the next legal social movement. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 which passed in the wake of the racial social movement also barred discrimination on the basis of sex, and women’s movement lawyers were starting to bring cases under it. Then, in the heady days of the 1970’s, anything seemed possible.
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The growing impact of women entrepreneurs is evident today. Women-owned firms account for almost 30 percent of all businesses and one in five women-owned firms tout revenue of $1 million or more, according to research conducted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and its Center for Women in Business in 2014.
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We’re putting on our walking shoes and filling our water bottles.
On Women’s Equality Day (it’s Wednesday, August 26) Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take the Lead and I, founder and editor in chief of Women’s eNews, will lead a very special women’s history walking tour in downtown Manhattan.
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If you said “Women’s Equality Day,” you’d be right.
And if you said it’s the 95th anniversary of the date in 1920 when women’s right to vote officially entered the U.S. Constitution, you’d be spot on.
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I’m pretty passionate about advancing the rights and opportunities of women, so I talk about it a lot. But when you get the chance to hear longtime activist, author, and co-founder of Ms. Magazine Gloria Steinem talk with Take The Lead Co-Founder and President Gloria Feldt, you just listen – listen and learn
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