WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 6, 2024) — TAKE THE LEAD®, the national non-profit dedicated to achieving gender parity in leadership by 2025, has announced keynote panels, conference honorees and concert performers for the 5th edition of their leadership parity summit. “PowerUp: Together We Lead” takes place both virtually and in person in Washington D.C. on Sunday, August 25 and Monday, August 26, timed with Women’s Equality Day. It also celebrates the organization’s 10th anniversary.
Read MoreIssue 247 — December 11, 2023
“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.” — Alice Paul, suffragist leader and author of the Equal Rights Amendment, which a century later still is not published into the U.S. Constitution.
Read MoreIssue 235— July 10, 2023
“We want it all, but we’ll take half.” — Bella Abzug.
Abzug, the late NY Congresswoman and architect of Women’s Equality Day, made that declaration with a touch of wry humor, but she was serious as a heart attack. This sentiment resonates with an all-too-real truth about the ongoing struggle for women’s equality.
Read MoreIssue 201 — June 5, 2022
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” said founding father John Adams. Yet in a classic demonstration of unearned privilege, he mocked his wife Abigail’s plea to “remember the ladies” when framing the Constitution. John averred that men would never put up with that “tyranny of the petticoat.” As if one person’s freedom reduces the other person’s freedom, when the exact opposite is actually true.
Read More“The first responsibility of leadership is the creation of meaning.”—Warren Bennis.
The word of the week is ECLIPSED
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