UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday calling on the United Nations and its 193 member nations to step up action to increase the number of women in military and civilian positions at all levels in the U.N.’s far-flung peacekeeping operations. The resolution recognizes “the indispensable role of women in increasing […]
Category Archives: Empowering Women
Centuries of bias have impeded the advance of human knowledge. In the war against the coronavirus, leading women scientists are among the generals. For instance, Kimberly Prather of UC San Diego, has been a leader in establishing the role that airborne transmission plays in spreading the virus. The renowned UC Berkeley researcher Jennifer Doudna—a pioneer […]
Hear the rhythm. Feel the beat. The rhythm and the beat. Debbie (Shapiro) Gravitte: Tony Award Winning, Emmy & Grammy Nominated Broadway Musical Star & Actress, Producer & Founder Group5Production. Music has the ability to move you no matter what kind you listen to. On sunny days, rainy days, blue days, whether happy or […]
August is National Women’s Suffrage month, commemorating the long struggles women faced for the right to vote, gained through the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on Aug. 26, 1920. The struggles began before the Civil War (1861-1865) when women began to speak out publicly against slavery as early as 1830. The women, […]
Daring to be different For Martina Kwan, born in Hong Kong to a German mother and Chinese father, being different started right there. Martina was 8 years old when the sounds of war were surrounding her and her family in war torn Beirut, Lebanon. The next 2 years of her young life would be the […]
As the world sketches out post-pandemic plans, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the head of U.N. Women, explains why having more women in leadership positions could lead to better results. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka pounds the table for women and girls. As she speaks, it’s like a drumbeat — how girls need to complete their education, how they need access […]
The author, political adviser and former White House communications director shares what she has learned over the course of her career and how women can begin to break free from existing power systems. This morning, I managed to be late for a television hit I was doing from my own living room. I fell prey […]
“Life is the sum of you choices” – Albert Camus “My story is about family that may have been separated but couldn’t be broken.” – Patrica Walsh Chadwick Peace Love and Freedom…The Hippie Era Commune vs cult. It was the 1960’s and the hippie era. Peace, love and freedom were the buzz words and the […]
Women in the U.S. earn 81 cents for every dollar men make in 2020. That’s the raw gender pay gap, “which looks at the median salary for all men and women regardless of job type or worker seniority,” Payscale explains in a 2020 report on the state of the pay gap. The gap forms early […]
Women are opening new businesses at faster rates than men despite historic barriers to capital, pay and assumptions about women’s roles at home and in the workplace. According to the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, women owned just 4 out of 10 businesses in the U.S. in 2018. And while the rate of women-owned […]