Guest Post by Haley Lickstein, CEO, Haley Lickstein Media and Women Connect4Good Board MemberRepost from Substack. Earlier this month, the Trump Department of Education did something huge that almost no one noticed: they rewrote which graduate programs count as “professional degrees.” It sounds like bureaucratic housekeeping, but it’s actually one of the most consequential attacks […]
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At the heart of Women Connect4Good’s mission is a deep commitment to lifting women up and building a better, more inclusive world. Serenity Sosa, a 2025 graduate of Drury University and a proud recipient of the Women Connect4Good scholarship, is a powerful example of that impact. We had the pleasure of meeting Sosa during Drury
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The question some are asking this Mother’s Day is how much money will it take to motivate women to have babies. The amount floating around the new proposal is $5,000 each. The goal is to raise the population growth rate from the current .98 (which includes net immigration and decreased deaths) to 2.1, the amount
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Ten years ago, I joined 3,000 other women at Gammage Hall on the Arizona State University campus. Together, we listened to Sheryl Sandberg, Karen Finney, Erica Gonzalez, Pat Mitchell, Gloria Feldt, Carla Harris, and other powerful speakers talk about the importance of advancing more women into leadership. They challenged women, men, organizations, and policymakers to
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During last week’s Diversity Women’s Business Leadership Conference, the topic shifted to women leaving the workplace first during the pandemic, and now as part of the great resignation – which isn’t over yet as nearly two-thirds of workers are hunting for a new job, and nearly nine out of ten company executives are seeing higher
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In 2010 Gloria Feldt, author, and cofounder and president of Take The Lead, redefined the way women look at power in No Excuses – Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, by putting it into a historical context and showing the ways in which women have made huge leaps forward in the
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After a year and a half hiatus, many offices were on track to open up in the coming months. While the current rise of the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus has scuttled some of those return to the office plans, many companies are pushing ahead and getting ready to welcome their workforce, ready or
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It should be obvious why we must help women get back to work. The past 16 months have illuminated women’s fragile hold on the delicate balance of income-producing work and unpaid work at home. COVID-19’s devastating effect on the world has especially impacted women. In the US, women lost more than 5 million jobs between the
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Imagine your ideal leadership role where you – and the you who you’ve always known you were meant to be – can fully thrive – using a combination of only nine tools. Well, imagine no more…Take The Lead’s 9 Leadership Power Tools to Advance Your Career [online course] is back! Take The Lead prepares, develops,
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ENCORE from December 2018 Linda Rendleman is the ultimate supporter of women’s work and lives and breathes her daily mantra, “Be the miracle in your own life.” She has won numerous awards for her writing and speaking, including, “The Torchbearer Award,” the highest award is given to a woman by her home state of Indiana
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