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ORIGINAL CONTENT & FRESH NEWS YOU NEED NOW
Move The Starting Line: COO Knows Diverse Teams Build Creativity Peggy Yu, COO of Startup Institute, knows access is the key. TELL ME MORE
Claim Your Piece of Powertopia: Countdown to 11/14/2017 Get the latest updates on Take The Lead Day, a global day of action 11/14/17 to move women toward leadership parity across all sectors by 2025. See how you can get involved. TELL ME MORE
Steady At The Helm: Co-Founder Investing Millions in Women Founders Money talks and Lindsey Taylor Wood listens with a mission to fund female innovators.
Tackling The Future: CEO's Game Plan to End Gender Bias in Sports, Tech Meet Lisa Pearson, CEO of Umbel, who plans to level the playing field for women. TELL ME MORE
Gloria's "The Sum" Weekly Column: The Word of The Week Is One As in one woman speaking her truth gives courage to others.As in one woman’s story and then another and then another can bring down a titan.Comment @GloriaFeldt TELL ME MORE
Danger! Toxic Office Ahead! Know the signs of a toxic work culture before you take the job. READ IT AT FAST COMPANY
One Is The Loneliest Number A token female in leadership is not enough to say you are diverse and inclusive. READ IT AT BUSINESS INSIDER
Female Black Executives Are Rare And That's Wrong The reasons black women executives are not given a chance are many, Mellody Hobson says. READ IT FORTUNE
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Diversity is not a business case. It is who we are and it is what we’re going to get done."-- Thasunda Duckett, CEO of consumer banking at JP Morgan Chase
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NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Do you remember where you were last November? What you were feeling? Imagine coming together with women everywhere and channeling all of our energy into one day of global action for women's leadership.
This is Take The Lead Day 2017. On November 14th, 2017 champions of women
from across the world will come together for aglobal day of action focused on one goal: leadership parity by 2025.
As our friend and partner in parity, Gloria Steinem has boldly said, "The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day. A movement is only people moving." We are that movement. We are Pow*HER*ful because we are unified by a common goal to achieve gender leadership equality by 2025 - 70 years ahead of the trajectory. We are Pow*HER*ful because we stand together in action, fighting every day for our daughters, our sisters, our mothers, our friends, and ourselves.
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