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March 8, 2016: Edition 52

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IN THE HEADLINES


Faster, Faster: International Women’s Day Aim Is Global Women Pay Equity

In the time it takes for a child to move from prekindergarten to her college graduation—14 years—the planet will have achieved gender equity. That is the sincere hope and the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day at United Nations Women. “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it Up For Gender Equality” urges all countries to embrace a future of equal pay, equal treatment and justice for all women and girls globally.


The 2030 UN Women’s goal is five years behind Take The Lead’s ambitious goal of achieving gender parity in leadership by 2025 in the United States.


Started in 1909 by the Socialist Party of America, International Women’s Day was practiced globally just a year later. The not so good news is that 107 years into celebrating global women's equality, we are far from reaching parity for women.

 
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The State of The Women: Where Female Entrepreneurs Stand Today

Celine Dion, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson and Toni Braxton ruled the pop charts while “Forrest Gump” and “The Lion King,” drove movie ticket sales. It was 1994 and also the year the U.S. government declared the goal of awarding 5 percent of all contracts to small businesses owned by women.


More than two decades later, that finally has come true, with $17.8 billion of federal contracts given to small women-owned businesses in 2015. And that was only after the government said a small percentage of contracts should be set aside for competition to only women-owned businesses.


 
Hire Me! The Best Companies For Women in Workplace And Why

The top companies in the country where a woman may snag a promotion to the manager level --and also be able to be on the board of directors-- may surprise you. The companies named by the National Association for Female Executives and Working Mother magazine are spread across many fields and disciplines and include tech, branding, cosmetics, research and more, according to a new list of the best 60 companies in the U.S. for executive women.


Writing in Business Insider, Rachel Gillett names Fleishman Hillard, the branding communications company, as far and away one of the very best for women. Seventy-one percent of women working there report earning promotions to the level of manager or above. More than half, or 52 percent of the senior managers are women, while 47 percent of the executives in the company are women. In the board room, 42 percent of the board members are women.




WHAT WE'RE READING



Gloria Feldt on Power, Leadership and Ambition 
In an interview with Lauren Schiller of Inflection Point for Fortune, Take The Lead Co-Founder and President Gloria Feldt takes aim at women's power, leadership, ambition and balance. "You can't expect your boss to know that you feel like you’re getting ready for that next promotion if you don’t tell her or him that and explain why you are, in fact, ready for it and that you would like to have it. They can’t know that if you don’t tell them."
READ IT AT FORTUNE

Taking Aim to Close the Tech Pay Gap
Arjuna Capital has its sights set on seven top tech firms including Google, ebay, Expedia and Facebook to create transparency on the gender pay gap. Amazon said no, thanks, leave us alone. Intel is 100 percent on board reaching pay equity for all women and Apple rates 99.6 percent. 
Be First: Why Female Firsts Are Relevant
Writing in Huffington Post, Sasha DiGiulian, female overall world champion climber says we need to nod to the women when they make it to the top. "Women have been routinely underrepresented in sports, politics, and business throughout history. Despite our hyper modern world, we are still at a point that 'female' achievements should be acknowledged and highlighted.'

READ IT AT HUFFINGTON POST

Discover 30 Under 30: Bright Young Minds Working for A Better Future For All of Us
All through March, PSMag is profiling 30 innovators in a variety of fields. One is anthropologist Crystal Abidin who "is re-defining how we view Internet-famous people—or 'influencers,' as she calls them. Many people assume that the people whom she studies are 'just being pretty and doing frivolous things on the Internet,' Abidin says. That's because most of the influencers in question happen to be young women who often blog about fashion and make-up. Of the 190 Internet-famous Singaporeans that Abidin has studied, most are young women such as Xiaxue, perhaps Singapore's most famous blogger."
READ IT AT PACIFIC STANDARD MAGAZINE
 
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               QUOTE OF THE WEEK

                     "Our goal is for you to go to a work event or social event and you can be                      able to talk to anyone about anything and you never have that moment                                  when you have to drop out of a conversation.”



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