Earlier this month, I had the good fortune to attend the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. As part of that, I also attended the Women’s Panel, which featured successful women from all corners of film production: editing, directing, costuming, casting, production design, and producing. The panel provided a forum for them to come together to […]
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Sandra Ford Walston claims the title of “The Courage Expert” because for years she has researched the full meaning of the word: first, from Aristotle, who called it the first of all virtues without which the others could not exist, then through its French roots, “from the heart and spirit,” and finally through the process
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Do you remember when President Gerald Ford established the National Commission on the Observance of International Women’s Year? A lot of the people reading this weren’t born yet or were just babies on January 9, 1975. Following the lead set by the United Nations, President Ford wanted to focus attention on the rights and responsibilities
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When Janet Yellen was confirmed as the first woman Federal Reserve Board Chair, blog posts with titles like “Janet Yellen: the Bitch of the Fed” sprouted across the Internet. Madeline Albright has struggled with similar labels and in her memoir said, “As I began to climb the ladder, I had to cope with the different
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Gender communication expert, Claire Damken Brown, Ph.D. urges women to speak out and get their voices heard to build their credibility as leaders. Claire became interested in gender dynamics while working in the male-dominated technical industry at AT&T in the late-70’s and early-80’s. She earned two degrees in gender communication and co-wrote four books before
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It’s not news that women are just as capable as men of being great leaders – in politics and in business. What is making news this week is a new Pew Research Center survey on women and leadership. It finds most Americans find women to be indistinguishable from men on key leadership traits such as
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Three Leading Women co-authors offer their perspectives on empowering women during a The Women’s Eye podcast radio program, “Power of Leadership Hour.” Guest host for the podcast is co-author, Gloria Feldt, who interviewed fellow co-authors Dr. Lois Phillips and Dr. Janet Rose Wojtalik. This fast-paced exchange includes stories from their own experience growing into leading
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Former BBC reporter, Rebecca Tinsley, uses her voice to empower thousands of African women. She speaks out about the plight of the survivors of genocide, rape and mutilation in search of the answer to the question she has been asking since she was a small girl, “Why do human beings do unthinkable things to others?”
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Communication consultant Dr. Lois Phillips says that when women speak out for something or someone besides themselves, their mission empowers them to confront their fear and reach beyond their comfort zone to create change. She gives examples of one woman addressing a city council over a pothole problem and another who saw the need for
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Leading Woman co-author Rebecca Tinsley recently wrote in the Huffington Post about Mary, a ten-year-old girl in northern Uganda who was not aware the International Day of the Girl Child was October 11. Mary was not celebrating, she was in fact was being assaulted by a man who held her against her will for three
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