Lilly Singh & Karen Cahn On The Gender Gap In Business & Politics By Christine Michel Carter Diageo’s Johnnie Walker brand is teaming up with comedian and writer Lilly Singh and founder and CEO of IFundWomen Karen Cahn under the brand’s First Strides program. The Johnnie Walker First Strides program is a series of initiatives and grants to help create more opportunities for cultural innovators. Singh…
Inspiration, Anger Motivate Women to Run for Office Amanda Clayton, assistant professor of political science, studies gender and politics—specifically, the causes and consequences of women’s access to political power around the world. She can provide insight into why so many women are running for office in 2018–and how they might change Washington if they are elected. Women politicians change policy…
Us vs. Them: The Political Polarization of Education By Todd Washburn It is a truth so universally acknowledged that it is a cliché: Education is essential to democracy. Thomas Jefferson viewed an informed citizenry as the indispensable bulwark against tyranny, writing that no civilized nation could be both ignorant and free. Franklin Roosevelt called education “the real safeguard of democracy,” and Ronald Reagan said education was…
Shefali Razdan Duggal Nominated As Envoy To Netherlands Shefali Razdan Duggal, 50, is an Indian immigrant to the United States from the state of Jammu and Kashmir. She has been raised in Cincinnati, Chicago, New York and Boston. By All India / Press Trust of India Washington: US President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate Indian-origin political activist Shefali…
The first Black woman vice president, Kamala Harris reached the historic milestone of becoming the vice president America also lost its lone Black woman Senator, making that moment bittersweet and highlighting the fact that we still have a long way to go when it comes to Black women’s political leadership. That stark reality, and the duality of both progress and…
Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau announced his new Cabinet on Tuesday and has promoted women in top roles in another gender-balanced Cabinet. Women are now in charge of the ministries of finance, foreign affairs, and defense. By Stéphanie Fillion In a Cabinet of 38 people, including Trudeau, 19 are women. Familiar faces remain integral parts of Justin Trudeau’s Cabinet, such…
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By: Heather Marcoux The numbers are in, and so is Harris. California Sen. Kamala Harris will be the United States’ next Vice President. This is huge news for little girls who never imagined they could hold such a high office, and it’s huge news for their mothers, too. Harris has been pushing for change on several issues that matter so much…
One hundred years and one Kamala Harris later, there are still very few TV series about first- (or second-) wave feminism in the vault.