High powered reporter Cate Montana had done it all, from 16 years in network TV to magazine journalism, when she realized that she had been liberated to compete like a man in a man’s world. Her wake-up call happened in an interview with a shaman from a South American tribe. The shaman explained how men […]
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The recent Take the Lead Challenge was a momentous event. the national organization formally launched their mission of helping women build their self confidence and self-esteem so they will step into leadership roles. The WomenConnect4Good Foundation reached out with sponsorship and Dr. Nancy attended the event in the packed 3000-seat auditorium at Arizona State University.
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Convoy of Hope’s Women’s Empowerment program in Ethiopia has improved the lives of 1,000 women and their families since it began in 2010. Dr. Nancy is a major sponsor of the Ethiopian program. In February 2014 a group of 20 supporters, family members and staff traveled from Springfield Missouri, the headquarters of Convoy of Hope,
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If your workday is plagued by mean women, read this new post about Working with Bitches on the Women Connect4Good.org site. We were so impressed with this information, we got permission from the author, Meredith Fuller, to reprint 1800 words from her wonderful new book. We chose to reprint the section about deciding whether you
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Women need not be on their own when undergoing assaults from mean women in the workplace, even though management overwhelmingly denies the situation exists. Meredith Fuller, psychologist and recognized specialist in career development, has written a valuable book, now released in the US, called Working with Bitches: Identify the Eight Types of Office Mean Girls
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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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Have you heard about the campaign to #banbossy? It will advance women empowerment and help us increase our vocabularies if we stop calling girls bossy. In fact, there are many better, more accurate ways to describe women and girls than “bossy,” according to a recent BlogHer post by Julie Ross Godar. This is a reaction
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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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