Equality matters. It always has. In 1916, Woodrow Wilson was nearing the end of his first term as president, World War I was raging in Europe and dividing opinion across the United States, and Pancho Villa was terrorizing the southern border. The public was deeply divided on whether or not the U.S. should intervene in
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Join me in San Francisco on the eve of International Women’s Day, on Saturday March 7th, for An Afternoon of Art + Activism — with artist and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain’s Dendrofemonology: A Feminist History Tree Ring — the moveable monument that has convened women leaders around the country at the National Mall in Washington, DC;
Today, the single highest educated demographic in the US—Black women—are being laid off in government and corporate jobs, and finding doors suddenly closed to opportunities they’ve worked hard to earn. Yet they aren’t playing competitive hardball or hiding away behind closed doors. They’re reaching out—tending and befriending—as women do in times of crisis, sharing information
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Like a number of trending terms today, “gaslighting” is being misused, overused, and inserted into conversations about practically every negative social encounter—like lying and guilt-tripping. But do we really know what it means? Can we recognize it, and more importantly, can we protect ourselves from its effects? Several years ago, Maggie Castrey wrote, “Is Someone
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Just over a year ago, we pointed out that while 2024 was a BIG year, 2025 was shaping up to be even BIGGER. It did not disappoint. Along with our partners, collaborators, sisters, daughters, and friends, we continued to move progress forward. In fact, despite disasters, elections (or disastrous elections), and more than a few
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Guest Post by Haley Lickstein, CEO, Haley Lickstein Media and Women Connect4Good Board Member Repost from Substack. Last week, the Heritage Foundation—the group that authored Project 2025—released a 130+ page proposal titled “Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years.” I read the entire thing for you. The paper lays
The title of this post is borrowed from the book, Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace, which is co-authored by W. Brad Johnson, PhD, and David G. Smith, PhD. In his recent podcast interview with Dr. Nancy, Dr. Smith told her that his personal story formed his work
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Jacinda Ardern’s memoir, A Different Kind of Power, shows her to be both a reluctant politician and a tailor-made female leader with a passion for change. Most women who enter politics, at whatever level, want to help people, make their communities safer, improve their children’s access to education, and more. The Right Honourable Dame Jacinda
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Guest Post by Haley Lickstein, CEO, Haley Lickstein Media and Women Connect4Good Board MemberRepost from Substack. Earlier this month, the Trump Department of Education did something huge that almost no one noticed: they rewrote which graduate programs count as “professional degrees.” It sounds like bureaucratic housekeeping, but it’s actually one of the most consequential attacks
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The Sheconomy Campaign starts by asking, “What if women had been equal partners in the economy for the last 100 years?” That question was fed into a proprietary AI model along with the data required to assess the outcomes of this alternate reality. The projected headlines are startling. Teachers make more than lawyers. The gender
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