Florence Nightingale is widely recognized as the founder of modern nursing. What’s far less known is that Florence Nightingale was one of the world’s first feminists.
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March has been celebrated and officially recognized as Women’s History Month by the United States government since 1987. Each annual celebration has a dedicated theme, and “Celebrating Women of Character, Courage, and Commitment” belongs to all the 2014 ladies, and those who came before us.
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Denise Brosseau realized she was a thought leader when the media kept calling 15 years ago. And they haven’t stopped since.
Brosseau helped found two organizations that help direct women entrepreneurs toward investment: first Watermark, then Springboard — which can claim to have brought $6 billion to women’s businesses. The White House recently named her a Champion of Change.
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March is Women’s History Month and to commemorate it I want to introduce you to a few of the women I most admire.
My first female hero was my father’s older sister, my Aunt Faye, who was born in 1908 on the Lower East Side of New York, the first child of newly arrived immigrants from Poland. I’ve spent my entire life working to advance social justice, and the social consciousness that set me on that path came alive in the early 1950s sitting around my Aunt Faye’s dining room table.
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When Mary Barra was named CEO of General Motors in December 2013 – the first woman to head a major automaker—my friend and leadership expert Leslie Grossman declared on a LinkedIn group: “Experience Trumps Gender!”
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I interviewed Schnall to learn more about her approach to putting together the book, her thoughts on the progress women and men have made on the issue thus far, and what she’s learned from nearly 20 years working for gender equality. This is part 2 of our conversation. Read part 1 here.
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During the 2008 presidential election, Marianne Schnall’s then 8 year old daughter asked her, “Why haven’t we ever had a woman president?” Unable to provide an answer, Schnall set out on a journey to find one. A widely published writer and interviewer, and Founder of Feminist.com, Schnall interviewed influential leaders and thinkers across all sectors for her book, What Will It Take to Make a Woman President: Conversations About Women, Leadership and Power (Seal Press, November 2013). These conversations explore what needs to change in order to finally elect a woman into the White House.
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Dr. Danielle N. Lee blogs at Scientific American’s website as The Urban Scientist, writing on issues of urban ecology, evolutionary biology & diversity in the sciences. In 2009, she was named the Diversity Scholars Award recipient by the American Institute of Biological Sciences for her contributions to science and promoting diversity within the field.
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Shayla Price is also known by many as the “Scholarship Queen” due to the fact that she has helped more than 5,000 students apply for college scholarships. Shayla herself didn’t apply for any student loans when she went to college because she earned $100,000 for herself in scholarship money.
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Cindy Carpenter is the President and Founder of Cortney’s Place, a nonprofit organization that raises the bar for the physically and mentally disabled.
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Durga Shakti Nagpal is a 28-year-old civil servant who took on an illegal sand mining operation in her district. In collaboration with the local police, she arrested 104 people and seized 81 vehicles.
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Dana Theus is the President & CEO of InPower Consulting, a development and culture-design firm specializing in cultivating and supporting gender-partnered leadership teams, helping companies retain their best talent (especially women). Dana is a research-based advocate for talent innovation and women’s leadership change initiatives that produce business results.
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