In 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Law, which made it illegal to pay women lower rates for the same job as their male counterparts on the basis of gender. At the time, women earned 59 percent of men’s wages. In honor of Equal Pay Day, we recommend reading the following stories to learn more: CNN: Salesforce…
A Powerful Poet, Cleo Wade, shares how she stays inspired and informed. If you want to know why Cleo Wade has become the poet of her generation, look no further than Instagram. Her 350,000-plus followers eagerly post shots of her affirmational poems with captions like “Positive vibes only” or the prayer hand and heart emojis. In fact, it’s nearly impossible to…
Today, Google Doodle celebrates the 98th Birthday of Katsuko Saruhashi, a Geochemist. Katsuko Saruhashi turned radioactive fallout into a scientific legacy. Katsuko Saruhashi, whose research helped reveal the insidious spread of radioactive fallout from the US nuclear testing ground in the Pacific. If she were still alive, today would have been her 98th birthday. In 1957, Saruhashi became the first…
Cynthia Nixon Announces Bid to Run for New York Governor. “I love New York, and today, I’m announcing my candidacy for Governor,” Cynthia Nixon tweets. A potential first female Governor in New York history, if she wins. Cynthia Nixon, an education activist better known for her work in “Sex and the City,” announced her candidacy for governor on Twitter on…
MEET MELISSA HARVILLE-LEBRON: THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO OWN A NASCAR TEAM. Melissa Harville-Lebron never imagined that her entrepreneurial pursuits and ambitions would lead her to make history as the first African American woman to solely own a race team licensed by NASCAR. Black girls rock! In addition to granting opportunities to people of color, Harville-Lebron wishes to see more…
🍃Our #TimeisNow poem, written by Lilian Ajayi-Ore, Founder & CEO of GC4Women.og. A Women’s History Month Poem Written by Lilian Ajayi-Ore. A Poem Titled: Our Time is Now If we only had more time. We would change the feeling of guilt in the pursuit of moving things forward. If we only had more time. We will never miss a beat.…
Sana Akibu (aka Sana Kibz) is a model, TV Star, Fashion & Lifestyle influencer and beauty content creator in New York City specializing in natural skincare. Sana has held positions in many areas of the beauty industry and has worked with BET, Maybelline, Seventeen Magazine, Macys, Refinary29, and many others. She currently operates a natural skincare line, and stars in WEtv‘s new…
A moment of awe: a captivated Little Girl of Michelle Obama’s portrait goes viral, and the reasons why will most certainly surprise you. Parker Curry, age 2, was not being cooperative. Standing in front of the new painting of former first lady Michelle Obama at the National Portrait Gallery, Parker ignored her mother’s pleas to turn around for a photo.…
The Global Connections for Women Foundation co-designed Teach Gender Equality Certificate Course on Microsoft Education – and now over 15,000 teachers are certified worldwide and over 1 million teachers have access to the learning materials for the course. The course was released on International Women’s Day – a pivotal time to reflect on progress made and to continue to strive…
Sunday night at the Oscars served as a galvanizing moment for women in Hollywood, and how we can chart our own paths going forward. One of Hollywood’s most aggressive advocates for diversity, Ava DuVernay, praised the 90th Oscars as an important marker of change. “Dear @Academy, Inclusion looks good on you,” Ms. DuVernay wrote on Twitter on Sunday night. “Well-done. More…
