Posts tagged Gender Violence
Applauding Good Work: Activists Advocating For Women, Girls Across Generations
Applauding Good Work: Activists Advocating For Women, Girls Across Generations

The first Chicago Foundation For Women award went to Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2005, at the age of 72, when she was a Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Since then, 125 women leaders have been honored, and this year, 17-year-old Azariah Baker, Youth Leader of A Long Walk Home, won the Vanguard Award.

“I have been encouraged by so many women in my life and am so thankful,” says Baker, an artist and activist, senior at George Washington College Prep High School, who is attending Spelman College in the fall. “You see women here doing everything in their fullness. My work is an ode to my Black experience.”

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Women Career Success, Leadership/Political a..., Inspirational Role Models, Gender Parity, Change LeadershipMichele WeldonActivism, black women in leadership, Gender Violence, Gender DiversityComment
Don’t Stop Believing: Anita Hill’s Mission To End Gender Violence Continues
Don’t Stop Believing: Anita Hill’s Mission To End Gender Violence Continues

“It is like boiling the ocean.”

Anita Hill, lawyer, advocate, author and professor, explained to a crowd at the recent Chicago Humanities Festival that the enormity of the problem of gender violence in this country is as vast as an ocean. And the process of addressing and eliminating all its forms is as complicated and slow as heating such a vast body of water.

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Changing the Workplace, Gender Parity, Changing the Power Par...Michele WeldonGender Violence, women in the workplace, social justiceComment
Imagine a World…
Imagine a World…

Imagine for a moment what the world would be like if men and women held fair and equal shares of top leadership positions across every sector. What are the words you would use to describe such a world? Last weekend, I got to do one of the things that keeps me so powerfully committed to this mission of gender parity in leadership by 2025.

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Change Leadership, Changing the Power Par..., Parity, Take The Lead Events, Leadership Power ToolsGloria FeldtTanushree Ghosh, Lori Chillingworth, Parity, Gender Violence, Power ToolsComment