Through their Women’s Empowerment Program, Convoy of Hope is helping women around the world to realize their value and reach their potential through job training and education. As a result, many of these women now own businesses that enable them to feed and care for their own children. This matters because of the 1.3 billion […]
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‘Tis the season – open enrollment is upon us. That means it is time to get insurance coverage and spread the word to community members, family and friends. Enrolling in comprehensive and affordable health care coverage is a critical first step to gaining greater health and wellness for all women. Think you don’t need insurance? Think
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Mentors matter, and many women in business today can attribute part of their success to lessons learned through a mentoring relationship. On one level, a mentor helps women become empowered, with more self-confidence and resolve. On another, mentors serve as a guide, role model and advisor. Women Are Losing Their Momentum Just As They’re Ready
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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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Quite a few documentaries lately are spurring conversation and urging us to look at things differently. The third installment of the documentary series America the Beautiful is no exception, and questions the highly sexualized media we consume and how deeply it affects young girls. Looking at the problematic reality behind child beauty pageants, teen pregnancy,
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A prominent feminist media critic, Anita Sarkeesian, recently had to cancel a speaking engagement at the University of Utah. Scheduled to talk about the portrayal of women in video games, Sarkeesian cancelled the event under threat of a “Montreal Massacre style attack.” What did she do to cause such vitriol? America has 190 million gamers,
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A study released last week by Ernst &Young Global Limited’s EY Women Athletes Business Network and espnW, reported that female executives are more likely to have played sports than those in non-leadership roles. They’re also more likely to hire other women who have played a sport. Playing Sports Can Help A Woman Accelerate Her Leadership
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Leading Women co-author Dr. Lois Frankel says that even though women lead every day, they often think it’s presumptuous to call themselves leaders. Tara Mohr, author of Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message agrees, and was recently quoted in Forbes as saying that women need to see their own brilliance and act
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When it comes to women, no two are the same, yet for decades advertisers have approached women with a one-size-fits-all approach. What women need and want is as varied as women themselves. Trying to take a cookie cutter approach, or painting women in an unrealistic light doesn’t work anymore. It looks like advertising executives are
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As women continue to struggle to break the glass ceiling in their professions, female clergy say some women are coming up against a stained-glass ceiling as they answer the call to work in ministry.
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