One hundred and one years is enough. Now is the time to pass the Equal Rights Amendment in all 50+ states and honor the fair and equal legal rights of women and publish it in the Constitution.
“I am so excited to present the Leading Advocate Award to the ERA Coalition,” said Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead, at the recent Power Up 2024 Conference on Women’s Equality Day in Washington, D.C..
Read MoreIt was the perfect combination of celebration and commitment—saluting 10 years of exceptional work with tangible outcomes for Take The Lead plus a roadmap for connecting purposefully to change the present for a gender and racially equitable future.
“Together We Lead” was the theme of the fifth annual Power Up Concert & Conference on Women’s Equality Day in Washington, D.C. with men and women from across the country convening to salute accomplishments spearheaded by Take The Lead co-founder and president Gloria Feldt.
Read More“Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves.”
It was a rousing conclusion to Take The Lead’s energetic Women’s Equality Day Power Up Conference, with world-renowned pianist, composer and musician Marina Arsenijevic, trio BETTY and the legendary vocal group, Sweet Honey in The Rock performing the anthem to sisterhood along with the audience.
Sharing a microphone along with all the performers at the close of the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater event,* was Gloria Feldt, Take The Lead founder and president, celebrating five years of Power Up and 10 years of Take The Lead’s mission of equity across all identifiers and industries.
Read MoreVery few people could ever fill her red and white leather high-heeled boots, and Lynda Carter herself has achieved far more than her fictional character of Wonder Woman ever could. Even with the starred crown.
As the recipient of Take The Lead’s Leading Woman Award at the 2024 Power Up Concert & Conference on Women’s Equality Day in Washington, D.C., Carter eloquently demonstrates she is the role model for leadership that many generations of women and girls have always needed.
Read MoreIt has been 104 years since the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment that granted women the right to vote, and Women’s Equality Day on August 26 is a salute to that milestone. In 10 years, Take The Lead has acted on the mission to reach gender parity in leadership across all sectors by 2025.
"Many of the inequalities protested in 1970 remain: pay and leadership gaps, roll backs of reproductive rights, and the Equal Rights Amendment, written 101 years ago, is still not in the Constitution," said Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead at the recent Power Up Concert & Conference Event. '
"I said when we decided to hold the conference in D.C. this year that we would either celebrate the ERA in the Constitution or raise hell that it isn’t," said Feldt, speaking at the fifth annual Power Up event for Take The Lead.
Combining the two historic efforts is the Power Up Concert & Conference Event 2024 on Women’s Equality Day in Washington, D.C. This year’s theme of “Together We Lead” emphasizes the world-changing movements, personal and professional advancements possible when women lead together with allies, partners, policy makers, colleagues, administrators, mentors and associates. All have the goal in mind of parity in leadership across all gender, racial, geographic, age, ideological, physical and mental identities and communities by 2025.
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