History of Women in the Workplace Women have always worked hard to support themselves and their families, even though they rarely got paid for it. In British common law, unmarried women, including widows, were called “femmes soles,” meaning women alone. They had the legal right to live where they pleased and to support themselves in
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For most of history, women’s rights were synonymous with their duties: they had the right to take care of their husbands and homes, teach their children and promote moral virtues. Single women retained more control over their lives but a married woman’s very identity dissolved into her husband’s.
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History of Empowering Women through Education Before 1800, women had little opportunity for higher education. If a woman advanced her intellect, people thought, she would be “unsexed.” The way a woman set about building her self esteem and gaining self confidence was to cultivate the appropriate feminine arts like cooking, sewing, raising children and running
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Women Empowerment Is Transforming Politics Women had no formal role in revolutionary America because they were not full citizens. In keeping with 10,000 generations of tradition, women in 1700s America were represented in public affairs by their husbands or fathers. Like women today, however, they exercised their economic power, helping the Colonies by boycotting English
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It’s easy to feel frustrated when you hear the news: Women occupy too few offices in C-suites, earn too little and are underrepresented in politics. You’ve been in groups where the women gnash their teeth in outrage. Bummer, right?
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Bobbi Carducci was an in-home caregiver for her mentally and physically ill father-in-law for seven years. Issues they coped with included dysphagia, schizophrenia, age-related dementia, Parkinson’s disease, heart disease, C.O.P.D. and various infections that popped up like weeds in the summer. She describes what she did as creative problem solving on the run and hopes
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Barnard College, the oldest liberal arts college for women in the U.S., launches a new perspective on Feminism. “Dare to Use the F Word” is a new monthly podcast series created by and for young feminists. Barnard President and author of Wonder Women, Debora Spar, says that she doesn’t presume to know what young women
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Martha Johnson could write the book on personal resilience and she has. It’s called On My Watch: Leadership, Innovation, and Personal Resilience. It includes more than her personal story of how she bounced back after the onslaught of the Congressional Hearings in April, 2012. It’s about how a creative leader carries out innovative strategies and
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The Representation Project (formerly MissRepresentation.org) continues to expose society’s limiting stereotypes that harm all of us: men, women, boys and girls. Most recently, they called attention to the lists of the most influential thinkers. Though women are proclaimed to use social media the most, they were mostly left off the lists.
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Amazing women executives top television industry around the world The Hollywood Reporter has just published a list of 25 top women executives in 17 countries. The article says “these female innovators oversee empires, greenlight the shows that captivate millions and adapt in a rapidly changing media environment.” That’s great news for women around the world,
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