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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Right here in the midst of a heated political season I think we can all agree that the old saying, “Liar, liar, pants on fire” still has many applications today. All you have to do is turn on the news to hear pundits speculating and commercials pointing fingers. The “he said” and “she said” accusations
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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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Education of any type, much less higher education, just wasn’t available to women during most of our history. Clear proof that things have changed – a lot – is a new report confirming that black women are now the most educated group in the United States. According to the National Center for Education Statistics between
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Dr. Sheila Robinson is the poster woman for turning adversity into opportunity. As an African American born in the South, she faced barriers based on her looks and background that she didn’t think possible. She focused on solutions, not problems; she looked for ways to make things better and urged others to be the best
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“Tonight’s victory is not about one person. It belongs to generations of women and men who struggled and sacrificed and made this moment possible.” – Hillary Clinton Regardless of where you stand politically, you have to agree that history was made when the Associated Press called the Democratic nomination for Hillary Clinton, making her the
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There has never been a better time to be a woman. Statistics show as of 2014, there were almost 9.1 million female-owned businesses in the United States, generating more than $1.4 trillion (yes, with a “T”) in revenue. Young American women are 33 percent more likely than their male peers to have earned a college
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Congratulations to Leading Women co-author Lois Phillips, PhD. The Santa Barbara chapter of the Association for Women in Communication is honoring Lois, along with Santa Barbara’s congresswoman Hon. Lois Capps as a “2016 Woman of Achievement” during a luncheon on June 3, 2016. The Women of Achievement Awards was established by AWC-Santa Barbara in 2007
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