An International Women’s Day Challenge, are you ready? ONE person and ONE action is all it takes to build a world that is safer and more equitable for women and girls. Here is your chance to be this person. #10WAYS10DAYS: A 10 ACTIONS IN 10 DAYS WOMEN’S DAY MOVEMENT 10/10 campaign organisers believe that 10/10 is an opportunity for individuals to participate in a great movement leading…
#TimeisNow for Rural and Urban Activists Transforming Women’s Lives, this year’s team for International Women’s Day. The theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March, is “Time is Now: Rural and urban activists transforming women’s lives.” People around the world are mobilizing for a future that is more equal. This has taken the form of global marches and campaigns, including #MeToo in the…
The New Yorker Loves to Put Black Women on Its Covers. But Black Women Still Don’t Draw Them, Why not? This year, for the first time in the character’s near centurylong history, Tilley has been rendered as a black woman. It’s Black History Month, and you know what that means: time to celebrate the bloodless heritage of a legacy media property.…
Critics have long blasted World Economic Forum, a Switzerland-based non-profit, for just how male-dominated its annual meeting is. Indeed, female representation at the gathering of business executives and world leaders has hovered in the teens in recent years, inching up to surpass the 20% threshold only last year. But the “women at Davos” story takes on new urgency this year,…
Black women are beginning to emerge as leaders across all industries, academia, government and non-profit organizations. This trend is particularly evident in the creation of new businesses: the 2016 American Express OPEN State Of Women-Owned Businesses Report found that women-owned businesses have grown five times faster than the national average since 2007, fueled primarily by Black and Hispanic women. We…
Bloomberg Global Chief Marketing Officer, Deirdre Bigley and business leaders from top brands in tech, business, media, and entertainment publicly declared they will push the MAKERS movement forward by supporting more women-led businesses, investing in more girls in STEM, achieving pay parity and more. Today at the 2018 MAKERS Conference in Los Angeles, Bloomberg LP joined more than 40 companies…
One year after protestors organized the Women’s March the conversation continues. Thousands of people take to the streets around the world in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Italy and Norway to protest discrimination. The strong, over-arching theme continued to remain political – exercise your right to vote, register to vote and run for office. However, other important topics of discontent,…
2017 was the year of the silence breakers. Women’s stories of sexual assault, abuse, harassment, and misconduct swept news headlines, and for the first time in history, #MeToo moments could not be ignored. While some companies and individuals took initiative to speak up, implement zero-tolerance policies, admit the need for change, others have gone silent, taking the path of fear…
Oprah Winfrey, in her inspiring acceptance speech for the Cecil B. Demille Award at the 2018 Golden Globes, condemned a “culture broken by brutally powerful men” and predicted the dawning of a new era spurred on by the #MeToo movement. “I want all the girls watching here and now to know that a new day is on the horizon,” said…
The faces of five women, including celebrities Taylor Swift and Ashley Judd, appear on TIME’s 2017 Person of the Year cover, representing the “The Silence Breakers” — the thousands of people across the world who have come forward with their experiences of sexual harassment and assault, #METOO. At the federal level, the House and Senate have passed new rules requiring…
