Each For Equal: Take The Lead Aligns With Missions of International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day 2020 themes and missions align well with the mission of Take The Lead.
It’s time each of us moved toward making equality a global reality, collectively and individually.
“It’s time each of us moved toward making #equality a global reality, collectively and individually. #TakeTheLead”
Later this week on March 9, International Women’s Day turns 109 years old, defined as a “global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women - while also marking a call to action for accelerating gender equality.”
Take The Lead is its much younger sister, celebrating six years of working hard across platforms with the mission to make gender equity in leadership across all sectors a reality by 2025.
“@Takeleadwomen is celebrating six years of working hard across platforms with the mission to make #genderequity in leadership across all sectors a reality by 2025. ”
This year’s theme, “Collective Individualism,” is a chorus resonating through all of the efforts of Take The Lead, including the most recent Power Up Conference, where hundreds of women and men participated in person and thousands more virtually in a “power surge for parity” in Scottsdale, Az.
“This year’s theme, “Collective Individualism,” is a chorus resonating through all of the efforts of @takeleadwomen, including the most recent #PowerUp Conference.”
#EachforEqual is the thread of this year’s IWD, which projects the ideal, “We are all parts of a whole. Our individual actions, conversations, behaviors and mindsets can have an impact on our larger society. Collectively, we can make change happen. Collectively, we can each help to create a gender equal world.”
These ideals are also reverberating in Take The Lead’s new 9 Leadership Power Tools, created by Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead.
“These ideals are also reverberating in @takeleadwomen ‘s new 9 Leadership #PowerTools, created by @GloriaFeldt, co-founder and president of #TakeTheLead.”
The new shift of Take The Lead’s Leadership Power Tools to “Intentioning,” according to Feldt, is to “challenge women to take the next step: to embrace higher levels of intention in order to achieve gender parity in the next five years, for their own good and the good of the world—and forever. I claim and use the word intentioning to turn intention into an action verb. Because even with big vision and lots of courage, it’s all a pipe dream if you don’t take action.”
Unveiled at the recent Power Up Conference, and in time for this year’s IWD, Feldt announces the first new tool, “Lead Like a Woman.”
“Unveiled at the recent #PowerUpConference, and in time for this year’s #IWD, @GloriaFeldt announces the first new tool, “Lead Like a Woman.” ”
According to Feldt, that means “radically redefining power at a deep and authentic level and embracing your essential core values so you can use your power of intention with discipline and focus.”
Another critical new leadership power tool is, “Build Social Capital.” Feldt says this is “ because relationships are everything, and will ultimately help you as much as educational qualifications or work experience.”
Just as International Women’s Day focuses on separate missions to celebrate women in all their achievements across industries and disciplines, Take The Lead celebrates, gathers and instructs women in several disciplines, with the 50 Women Can Change The World programs with upcoming cohorts in finance, journalism, healthcare and human resources.
IWD offers six missions for this year’s focus, including the mission “to celebrate digital advancement and champion the women forging innovation through technology.”
Take The Lead frequently salutes women in STEM and tech leadership, acknowledging the woeful under-representation of women in STEM.
“#TakeTheLead frequently salutes women in STEM and tech leadership, acknowledging the woeful underrepresentation of #WomenInSTEM. ”
Take The Lead recently reported, “The solutions to change the culture to one of diversity, inclusion and welcoming for women and under-represented groups are not reached in a day or a week, but by addressing the problem holistically and practically.”
Read more in Take The Lead on filling the STEM pipeline
“In order to make STEM fields and tech better for everyone, ‘It cannot just be an introduction from the head of diversity. It has to be what the CEO cares about and the leadership team cares about. Until that happens, it doesn’t matter,’ says Kristi Riordan,chief operating officer at Flatiron School, an outcomes-focused coding bootcamp offering software engineering education in New York and online.”
Also this year, IWD has a mission “to celebrate women athletes and applaud when equality is achieved in pay, sponsorship and visibility.”
Take The Lead frequently updates on leaders in sports and their achievements.
Read more in Take The Lea don women in sports working for parity
Take The Lead reported on Gold-medal winning U.S. Olympic gymnastics champion Aly Raisman’s discussion at a recent Chicago Foundation For Women event for 2,000 people.
“An advocate for eradicating sexual abuse in youth sports and for systemic change in gymnastics and all sports, Raisman, 24, testified in the trial of Dr. Larry Nassar, who worked for U.S. Olympics and USA Gymnastics. He was sentenced up to 175 years in prison after more than 150 women came forward to say he had sexually assaulted them over more than 20 years. ‘This is so much bigger than myself and gymnastics,’ says Raisman, who is a leader in the #MeToo movement.”
With an additional mission for IWD this year “to champion women of all backgrounds who dare to innovate, lead, and uplift others towards a more equal and inclusive workplace,” Take The Lead is an ally in the goal for inclusion and engagement across race, gender, age, ability, ideology, socioeconomics, geography and more.
“#TakeTheLead is an ally in the goal for #inclusion and engagement across race, gender, age, ability, ideology, socioeconomics, geography and more”
Feldt writes in Take The Lead on fairness for the LGBTQ community, “The good news is we’ve seen tremendous progress for LGBTQ rights. From the absence of basic legal rights a generation ago to Supreme Court decisions that affirm the right to same sex marriage now, the change has been rapid and real.”
Read more in Take The Lead on inclusion
She adds, “But as we’ve seen with women’s rights and civil rights in general, changing laws doesn’t necessarily change minds or behaviors. Further, as gay rights have become to a large extent normalized, transgender rights have become the cultural and political hot button, and non-binary people require us to recognize that with some exceptions, by and large gender is a social construct and human sexuality exists on a rather wide continuum. So injustices remain, making it important to fly the rainbow flag, as a number of US embassies did around the world despite the Administration’s instruction to the contrary, and to highlight the importance of equality regardless of gender or sexual identities.”
With the IWD articulated mission “to support women to earn and learn on their own terms and in their own way, “Take The Lead is in alliance with women offering programs and initiatives, conferences, webinars, podcasts and learning opportunities to fit their own schedules.
“To assist women to be in a position of power for making informed decisions about their health,” is an IWD mission this year and is reflected in the work of Take The Lead on its 50 Women in Healthcare Can Change The World cohort, as well as significant coverage of women’s health issues.
Watch a recent Take The Lead Virtual Happy Hour on health equity for women
“Approximately one in five adults in the U.S.—43.8 million, or 18.5 percent—experiences mental illness in a given year, according to the National Association for Mental Illness. Within that number, about 1 in 25 adults in the U.S. or 9.8 million, experiences a serious mental illness in a given year that substantially interferes with or interferes with daily life, including work. Among the 20.2 million adults in the U.S. who experienced a substance use disorder, 50.5 percent or 10.2 million adults, had a co-occurring mental illness,” Take The Lead reports.
As IWD states it has the mission, “ To increase the visibility of women creatives and promote their work for commercial projects,” is behind the mission for the 50 Women Can Change The World in Journalism cohort’s Women Do News campaign to increase visibility of women journalists on Wikipedia.
While International Women’s Day is just one day out of 365, Take The Lead is active every day in the mission to reach gender parity across all industries by 2025. And to that end, the new Leadership Power Tools designed by Feldt can help reach women that goal.
“While International Women’s Day is just one day out of 365, #TakeTheLead is active every day in the mission to reach #genderparity across all industries by 2025. #IWD”
Feldt writes, “Each Leadership Power Tool helps women see the world differently, to question the conventional wisdom and culturally learned behaviors that have held us back and that we often use by default to make the most important decisions in our lives. “
“@GloriaFeldt writes, “Each Leadership #PowerTool helps women see the world differently, to question the conventional wisdom and culturally learned behaviors that have held us back.””
