Teen Voices
Florida Teens Offer Advice to Next U.S. President
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No matter what happens at the polls on Nov. 8, these girls offer leadership advice for POTUS from their own experience.
Teen Voices
For Some Girls in a Top Model UN Club, the Sexism Is All Too Real
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One girl on this nationally elite team says the dominating behavior that guys use to get ahead didn’t seem socially acceptable for her. “I always had to find that balance between being really confident, as well as being more submissive and quiet.”
Teen Voices
Self-Awareness, Voice Key for Female Empowerment, Study Finds
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A 2016 report by For Girls GLocal Leadership found girls feel their voices are an important tool to combat issues like gender-based violence and discrimination. Speaking freely incites self-awareness to create change for empowerment, according to the survey.
2016 elections
Loyal Clinton Delegate at DNC: Thank You Hillary
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Like many women of her generation, Susan Rose never expected to see a woman become president. Now she’s glad she was in Philadelphia, able to cast a vote to hurry history along.
2016 elections
Democratic Convention’s Female Force Turns on the Technicolor
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When we enlarge the cast of women, as has happened in Philadelphia, we also expand the canvas upon which we, as women and girls, see each other and ourselves. That gives each one of us the chance to develop depth and detail.
Leadership
Collective Silence Won’t Help Us Get Into the Boardroom
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What made so many people unwillingly to put their names on my petitions to get a single woman on the boards of Land O’Lakes and Discovery Communications? I decided it was all about fear, which comes in these following flavors.
Leadership
Here’s How to Reframe the Discussion of Women on Boards
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Usually, when I talk about adding women to boards, I’m asked one question: “Why?” Everyone wants to know why we should add women to leadership positions. My answer is, “why not?”
Commentary
Those Newly Elected Saudi Women Just Got Pushed Away from the Table
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This is a serious blow, particularly when you remember that the presence of women isn’t a problem for every Saudi municipal council; the government’s decision to segregate endorsed the position of extreme men.
Politics
Between MLK and Obama Comes Carol Moseley Braun
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She was elected to the U.S. Senate 16 years before Barack Obama, who credits her with showing him the way, writes Jeannie Morris in this excerpt from her new book, “Behind the Smile.”
Leadership
‘Fire Starters’ in Women’s Philanthropy Focus on Regeneration
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“None of us have put our brushes down,” a pioneering donor told a recent gathering “You paint until you can’t.” Now she is energized by “bringing younger and younger women into philanthropy.”