I recently attended my second Diversity Woman Business Leadership Conference, this year in Baltimore. Once again I welcomed the feeling of inclusion; we are all women coming together to support one another. If I were ever to feel set apart, I might expect this to be the place, where three quarters of the attendees were
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Gifted storyteller and Leading Women co-author Kristin Andress invites you to enter an allegorical world to discover yourself in the characters that she portrays in her new book, Be Good for Goodness Sake. She and Dr. Nancy reminisce about childhood and small town neighborhoods that still exist today – where people’s kindness and support for
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An initiative of ALL Ladies League, the first ever Women’s Economic Forum (WEF) took place in India in winter 2016 and was attended by 400 people representing 25 countries. The purpose was to bring together women from all walks of society with an international reach, giving them a chance to connect, learn from one another
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Lia Suzuki Sensei, 6th dan, describes her why she became so involved in Akido with the statement, “When there’s a winner and a loser, there’s no winner.” Having learned and loved the peaceful conflict resolution principles of Aikido from her sensei (teacher), Takeda Shihan, she brought his style from Japan to the United States by
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Once Terra Renee got struck by the entertainment bug, she achieved moderate success in TV and film. Then she got the call for a 6-foot tall African American woman that sent her to a Warner Brothers audition. She entered a room with a thousand other 6-foot women answering the casting call, and found her passion,
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This year more than ever before, little girls can dare to dream to be anything they want when they grow up, even President of the United States. The unreachable is now attainable and the shards of the final glass ceiling lie trampled under our feet. But this new opportunity doesn’t come without responsibility. Our continued
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By Cheryl Benton, “Because I am a Girl” Private Sector Development Committee Here are some sobering facts about girls in the developing world: 65 million girls are NOT in school 41,000 girls are forced into early marriages EVERY DAY Childbirth is the leading cause of deaths for girls between 15-19 Being young and female in
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Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider first ran for public office in 2003 when she realized that she wanted to be the person making the decisions, not the person asking City Council to make them. Her first position was as a city councilwoman and now she is in her second term as mayor. Although her recent
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Women philanthropists are driving the ever-growing number of advocacy and charitable organizations seeking to advance the well-being of women and girls. The Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) at Indiana University-Purdue University has found consistently that women and men give differently. In almost every income bracket, women give more than men: baby-boomer and older women gave 89%
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Women are making history every day, raising the bar and heading toward parity across the globe. It was never more evident than at the recent Women’s Economic Forum (WEC) I recently attended in India. I had been invited to present the goals of the Statue of Responsibility and put women’s roles in the forefront of
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