It was yet another encounter of sexual harassment that gave Michelle Dewoskin the motivation to start her own company and helped her launch a new career.
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As I headed out at 4:30 a.m. with my 13-year-old daughter, Zoe, recently for the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., I could not help but think about my grandmother, Sarah Dubow Sorenson.
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Is she a victim or an inspiration? Many say the 277-old character of Belle is a throwback from a sexist fairytale and that her life as an animated Disney princess was shallow. Others say she may have modernized as a powerful heroine in the latest iteration, played by a real life feminist.
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Five-year-old kindergartner Lola dressed up as a different historic black woman leader each day recently to honor Black History Month. And one of her most beloved characterizations may well have been when she posed for the photo dressed as Harriet Tubman.
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Sometimes it has to rain torrentially before you decide you need an umbrella.
For thousands of women leaders in this country, the recent election is the rainstorm that has prompted a decision and become the tipping point to take action and run for office on all levels of involvement and government.
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This could be a picture of life literally imitating art. Or is it art imitating life? In honor of International Women’s Day March 8, Artfinder has launched a campaignto raise awareness of gender inequality in the art world. And there is quite a gap. You may be able to name a handful of women artists over the centuries
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An editor at a newspaper where I worked more than three decades ago asked me if I had sex over the weekend as I stood waiting at the newsroom copier.
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For me, joining the Take The Lead team as the Leadership Ambassador Program Director is a little like coming home. I first met Gloria Feldt in the mid-90’s when I worked as the marketing communications director at Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties in Southern California and she was the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Though Gloria wouldn’t recall meeting me, I’ve held on to her messages from that time for more than 20 years.
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If Viola Davis has it, then we’re all doomed. Or maybe, we’re all in good company and can figure out a way to overcome it.
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The announcement email is sent around and the name of the executive who everyone said would make the board is right there. He’s about to hit send on his email to the PR person about how glad he is to be joining the board and when, wait, there’s been a mistake and sorry, big mistake, it’s you—the woman who was meant to win it all along. Now he feels what—humiliated, weird, angry—and you feel a joy that is immediately undercut by your own doubt as well as maybe a few whispers as to why you got the nod to take the one empty seat.
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I literally can’t imagine A Day Without A Woman. I work with women, mentor women. I have sisters. And friends. The majority of my business and professional interactions are with women.
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In the final days of Women’s Heart Health Month this February, it’s the ideal time for working women, women leaders, female innovators, entrepreneurs and CEOs to move forward, address the stress and make a year-long, lifelong plan to destress, for heart’s sake.
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