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Be Who You Are: BossBride Founder Offers Strategies for Successful Women
Be Who You Are: BossBride Founder Offers Strategies for Successful Women

Her nickname in high school was “Boss Lady.” And now at 32, Charreah Jackson is making her ambition work for her—and for anyone else who seeks her advice.

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Self-PresentationMichele WeldonApril 9, 2017black women in leadership, Career Success, Michele Weldon, women in the workplace, women leaders Comment
What The Puck? Positive Negotiating on Pay Gap Can Bring Wins For Women
What The Puck? Positive Negotiating on Pay Gap Can Bring Wins For Women

Witnessing the USA Hockey women’s teamrally for fair pay and equitable treatment – and win– offers valuable lessons for all working women. And staying positive about your potential to earn your fair share also helps. Eventually it may eliminate the pay  gap.

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Inspirational Role ModelsMichele WeldonApril 4, 2017Equal Pay Day, female entrepreneurs, Michele Weldon, parity, women leaders Comment
Take The Lead Equal Pay Day: The Power To Ask Because It's Time To Close The Gap
Take The Lead Equal Pay Day: The Power To Ask Because It's Time To Close The Gap

This powerful infographic, created by Take The Lead’s Nailah Blades, visually expresses tips for negotiations underlining the necessity for the power to ask  as now is the time to close the gap.

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ParityTake The LeadApril 3, 2017Equal Pay Day, Michele Weldon, parity, pay gap, wage gapComment
Steps To Close The Wage Gap In The U.S. Without Moving To Iceland
Steps To Close The Wage Gap In The U.S. Without Moving To Iceland

“Be like Iceland.”

That could be the motto for the United State to achieve gender pay equity. And yes, we could be like Iceland, but perhaps without all the ice.

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ParityMichele WeldonApril 3, 2017Equal Pay Day, Michele Weldon, parity, pay gap, wage gapComment
Go Right Ahead: GoDaddy Aims to Fix Promotion, Opportunity, Gender Pay Gap
Go Right Ahead: GoDaddy Aims to Fix Promotion, Opportunity, Gender Pay Gap

“Go fix it.”

That would be Katee VanHorn’s motto as vice president of engagement and inclusion at GoDaddy, Inc., the world’s largest cloud platform company with 63 million domain names and 14.5 million customers.

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ParityMichele WeldonMarch 31, 2017business, Career, Equal Pay Day, equality, female entrepreneurs, leadership parity, Michele WeldonComment
Happy Days? As Working Women Learn How Your Work Can Make You Smile
Happy Days? As Working Women Learn How Your Work Can Make You Smile

There’s a lot of happy talk lately, perhaps in reaction to a stressful political climate. But it seems as if more and more people are in search of happiness and striving to tell others how to achieve it at work, home, rest and play.

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Tools and TipsMichele WeldonMarch 28, 2017Career, happiness, Michele Weldon, tips & tools, women in the workplaceComment
Making History: Why We Need More Women Leaders in Journalism
Making History: Why We Need More Women Leaders in Journalism

Generations after women journalists have supposedly freed themselves from the mandatory “pink ghetto” of exclusively writing about topics of food, family, furniture, fun and fitness, the media landscape is still uneven.

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MediaMichele WeldonMarch 27, 2017Career, Change, media, Michele Weldon, news, parityComment
Run For Your Life: How Women Leaders Can Make The Move to Election Day
Run For Your Life: How Women Leaders Can Make The Move to Election Day

Author and activist Rebecca Sive has been around a political campaign or two. The daughter of a New York lawyer who ran for Congress in 1958, Sive says her parents taught her that “politics is the highest form of contributing to the public good.”

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Career choicesMichele WeldonMarch 23, 2017Career, Change, confidence, Leadership, Michele Weldon, WOMEN IN POLITICS Comment
UN, Take The Lead Focus on Pay Gap, Gender Equity Strategies Globally
UN, Take The Lead Focus on Pay Gap, Gender Equity Strategies Globally

Tackling, narrowing and ultimately closing the gender pay gap has been a major focus at the United Nations Commission on The Status of Women 61st annual meeting in New York continuing through this week.

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ParityMichele WeldonMarch 21, 2017Change, leadership ambassadors, Michele Weldon, parity, pay gap, women leadersComment
Like It Or Not: Feedback May Burn, But Be Authentic as Women in Leadership
Like It Or Not: Feedback May Burn, But Be Authentic as Women in Leadership

“You like me, you really, really like me,” Sally Fields oozed with euphoria in her 1984 Oscars acceptance speech for best actress for her role in “Places in the Heart.”

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Changing the WorkplaceMichele WeldonMarch 21, 2017Leadership, Michele Weldon, Power-To, women in the workplace, women leaders Comments
Without Apology: Broker's 7 Launch Tips For Successful Women In Business
Without Apology: Broker's 7 Launch Tips For Successful Women In Business

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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Women Like YouMichele WeldonMarch 21, 2017Career, female entrepreneurs, Leadership, Michele Weldon, women in the workplaceComment
Through the Fire: A Century Later, Lessons Of Women Leaders From Triangle Factory
Through the Fire: A Century Later, Lessons Of Women Leaders From Triangle Factory

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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Women Like YouVivian SorensonMarch 17, 2017Movement building, women leaders, WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH, Women's Leadership, womens movement Comments
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