Your Power To Change The Frame For Women: 6 Reasons Why Giving To Take The Lead Matters
Take The Lead has six reasons why you can help change the frame on #Giving Tuesday.
Journalists traditionally adhere to a set of six questions in reporting a story; asking Who. What, Why, When, Where and How. It’s affectionately referred to as the 5W’s and an H.
This framework for gathering information is also popular with engineers, project managers, leaders—anyone trying to get the most information most efficiently to move forward with accurate answers.
“@Takeleadwomen has six questions you can use on #GivingTuesday and throughout the year in deciding how to most effectively move the most women forward in their careers and leadership paths during #COVID and #racialinjustice.
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You can put these six questions to the test on Giving Tuesday and throughout the year in deciding how to most effectively move the most women forward in their careers and leadership paths during dueling pandemics of COVID and racial injustice.
WHO: More women have been affected deleteriously by COVID-19 and discrimination barriers now than ever in this country.
You have the ability to help women who have lost their jobs or been downsized to participate in courses, workshops, webinars and coaching programs to restart or enhance their careers. You can also make it possible for women to continue to take advantage of Take The Lead’s free content every week.
“On #GivingTuesday, you can make it possible for #women to continue to take advantage of @Takeleadwomen ‘s free content every week. #leadershipskills #careergrowth”
“Four times as many women as men dropped out of the labor force in September, roughly 865,000 women compared with 216,000 men. This validates predictions that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women—and the accompanying child care and school crises—would be severe,” according to a new report from The Center For American Progress.
“Black, Latinx, and Indigenous women especially—all of whom face intersecting oppressions—are also feeling the multiple effects of being more likely to have lost their jobs, being on the front lines as essential workers, and solving their child care challenges on their own,” the new report shows.
Take The Lead reported in June, “The outbreak could also exacerbate existing inequalities surrounding male and female family responsibilities, potentially setting working women back as their careers or promotions prospects fizzle out while they put out more urgent fires at home. Faced with impossible ultimatums, some mothers are even quitting their jobs, while child care businesses starved of revenue could end up permanently shutting down,” according to Benefits Pro.
“This echoes a United Nations brief on how COVID-19 has affected women, stating, “Pandemics make existing gender equalities for women even worse.” Additionally, the “disproportionate negative effect on women and their employment opportunities” will outlast the pandemic, according to economic research from the Centre for Economic Policy Research, which found single mothers will be worst affected, Benefits Pro reports.”
According to the World Economic Forum, “Women with children are more likely to have lost their job or have been furloughed, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The research shows that working mothers’ working hours have fallen more, proportionally, and their work time is interrupted more often by childcare.”
WHAT: Take The Lead seeks contributions to offer scholarships for our 9 Leadership Power Tools to Accelerate Your Career online course to women whose careers have been hit in 2020. Right now for Giving Tuesday, your gift will be matched to double its impact. Our board of directors has pledged to match all donations up to $25,000 so we can reach the $50,000 goal needed to launch the next course early in 2021, providing scholarships to the many deserving women who want to take it. $480 can support one woman’s scholarship, but any amount helps.
“@Takeleadwomen seeks contributions to offer scholarships for our 9 Leadership Power Tools to Accelerate Your Career #onlinecourse to women whose careers have been hit in 2020. For #GivingTuesday, your donation will be matched. #careergrowth”
Additionally, webinars and provocative Book Club Discussion are available, including the Power To Change webinar series featuring leaders in different fields discussing strategies for amplifying all voices and leading with diversity, equity and inclusion.
The Movement Blog each week highlights specific strategies from entrepreneurs and changemakers offering valuable insight and actionable items to put into practice immediately. Here are some highlights from the past nine months alone in more than 60 blogs addressing the current crises. Please look around the blog and make use of whatever is most relevant to you. Feel free to share with others anything you think would help them survive and thrive in today’s world.
“@Takeleadwomen ‘s #TheMovementBlog each week highlights specific strategies from #entrepreneurs and changemakers offering valuable insight and actionable items to put into practice immediately. #womenleaders”
· Jocelyn Kung, CEO of The Kung Group, on help for startup founders.
· 5 Ways To Address Mental Health Concerns in The COVID Workplace
· Gloria Feldt on 4 Tips To Refresh For Success
· 10 Steps for Best Pandemic Parenting
· CEO, Founder On How To Launch Business During Quarantine
· 4 Tips to Prepare for WFH Forever
The recently launched Power To Change Stories initiative has included to date 21 stories of women around the globe from entrepreneurs to professors, lawyers, CEOS, authors, journalists and non-profit founders from teenagers to women over 55. Have a story you want to tell? Find out how you can do it via that link. Sixty-two percent of the women telling their Power To Change Stories are BIPOC, with 38 % of the women identifying as white. These stories will be published in an upcoming e-book.
“The recently launched #PowerToChangeStories initiative has included to date 21 stories of women around the globe. Have a story you want to tell? Submit it here: https://www.taketheleadwomen.com/stories#submit-your-story”
More award-winning free content from Take The Lead to help you through this crisis
And don’t think we are letting a pandemic stop us from thinking big and long term. You can support or inquire about joining our most immersive and impactful program, Take The Lead’s 50 Women Can Change The World, a program that provides women with the intention and skills to step into greater leadership roles and embrace their power to lead change in the culture of their professions. Programs in journalism, healthcare, nonprofits, media and entertainment, finance and law have catapulted the trajectories for hundreds of women in the past and will continue to do so in the future.
“You can support or inquire about joining our most immersive and impactful program, @Takeleadwomen’s #50WomenCan Change The World, a #program that provides #women with the intention and skills to step into greater leadership roles.”
WHY: Women are suffering economically, personally, professionally, mentally, financially and more because of COVID and the ongoing crisis of bias and racial injustice.
Take The Lead reported, “Recently the report, From Insights to Action: Gender Equality in the wake of COVID-19, also show that the pandemic will push 96 million people into extreme poverty by 2021, 47 million of whom are women and girls. This will increase the total number of women and girls living in extreme poverty to 435 million, with projections showing that this number will not revert to pre-pandemic levels until 2030.”
“Women are bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 crisis as they are more likely to lose their source of income and less likely to be covered by social protection measures. Investing in reducing gender inequality is not only smart and affordable, but also an urgent choice that governments can make to reverse the impact of the pandemic on poverty reduction,” said Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator.
According to the UN, on the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration; the 20th anniversary of Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security; and the first year of the Decade of Action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), COVID-19 threatens all progress.
“The pandemic has exposed the extent of its impact on physical and mental health, education and labor force participation,” said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. “In short, the pandemic is exposing and exacerbating the considerable hurdles women face in achieving their rights and fulfilling their potential.”
WHEN: Now. Giving Tuesday and throughout the rest of 2020 offers the possibility of donor matches to offer scholarships and free content and programming to women looking to enhance their careers and leadership paths. Now is when women need it most.
“#GivingTuesday and throughout the rest of 2020 offers the possibility of #donor matches to offer scholarships and free content and programming to women looking to enhance their #careers and #leadership paths. Now is when women need it most. ”
The Center For American Progress reports, “The impact on individual families is immediate and clear. Approximately 1 in 5 workers were on unemployment insurance in August, receiving a meager $300 per week on average, with dramatic effects on families’ economic security. One in 8 households has faced food insecurity, and anywhere from 29 percent to 43 percent of renter households could face eviction by the end of the year.”
According to the report, “There will also be a macroeconomic impact if women must scale back their employment en masse. Businesses and the overall economy are already struggling with decreased demand due to the pandemic, and significant hits to families’ incomes will only exacerbate this problem. Even in instances of more-privileged, dual-earner families, if a mother’s drop in earnings means tightening spending for non-essentials such as dining out or leisure activities, then the sectors of the economy that COVID-19 has already hit hardest will experience additional prolonged pain.”
WHERE: Take The Lead offers content, training and coaching to anyone anywhere in the world through ongoing virtual programming, and when it becomes feasible again, in-person.
“@Takeleadwomen offers content, training and #coaching to anyone anywhere in the world through ongoing #virtualprogramming, and when it becomes feasible again, in-person. #leadershiptraining #women #leadership #careercoach”
HOW: In order to jumpstart the Power To Change the impact on women in 2020, simply donate here to Take The Lead, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, rated 100 out of 100 with Charity Navigator.
Take The Lead will manage the distribution of scholarships and free offerings so as many women as possible can benefit. Together we have the Power To Change the impact of the past year on women’s careers. We will continue to serve and offer resources to shift the pandemic’s negative impact on women to positive change toward equity, fairness and inclusion.
“@Takeleadwomen will manage the distribution of scholarships and free offerings so as many women as possible can benefit. Together we have the #PowerToChange the impact of the past year on #womenscareers.”
