Sixteen centuries after St. Bridget urged St. Patrick to use Leap Day in Ireland as the one day every four years when women could ask men to marry them, Take The Lead Co-Founder and President Gloria Feldt writes in Fast Company that women can use this day as a reminder to “ask for what you deserve.”
It turns out that many, many centuries ago the ruling queens of Europe in the Middle Ages were not just sitting pretty next to their powerful reigning husbands. According to research from New York University, the ladies were not just waiting around, but declaring war at times.
Read MoreIowa has been the center of the political universe this week as the first caucus makes every talking point of the campaign season count, so Fusion came out with a bold list of “30 Women Who Will Change The Election.” The series of 30 videos highlights the XX movers who move past “Washington types” and predictable party lines to create a group of dynamic change-makers.
Read MoreBut that’s only because half of NASA’s latest astronaut class is female, and they’re training for a mission that could see them visit Earth’s nearest neighbor in 15 years.
Read MoreLast July we wrote about how Taiwan was on the verge of electing a female president for the first time in its history, with both major political parties nominating female candidates. Over the weekend the island made it official by voting Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party into office.Tsai won 56 percent of the vote in what the Economist is calling a “landslide that will change Chinese politics.”
Read MoreImagine a calendar of women chosen for their brains and not their beauty. You don’t have to imagine it: the makers of the 2016 Pirelli calendar—a calendar that, as the New York Times put it, has long been known as an “arty soft-core ode to pinups”—just made it a reality.
Read MoreLast month at the SHE Summit, Take The Lead Co-Founder Gloria Feldt moderated the panel “How Women Can Pave a Path to Corporate Leadership” with Marlene Gordon, VP & General Council Bacardi North America Corporation, and Fran Hauser, Partner at Rothenberg Ventures & former President of Digital at Time Inc.
Read MoreU.S. women’s soccer team star Abby Wambach announced her retirement last week, ending a 15-year career that saw her become the all-time leading goal scorer in international matches (male or female).
Read MoreIsraeli ad agency McCann Tel Aviv is known for its top-notch advertising work, but now it can add “brilliant women’s advocacy” to its list of company specialties. The agency recently rolled out a website, Persona, that lists nearly 700 Israeli women qualified to speak on panels on a wide variety of professional topics.
Read MoreHispanic Heritage Month is this month, and I want to share some advice specifically for our Latina readers as we celebrate our heritage and culture. My blog (The Branding Muse) and my business were born out of my need to share the career knowledge that I never learned at home. This wasn’t due to neglect, but more so because of cultural differences in how Latinos, especially women, approach the workplace.
Read MoreAccording to Fortune, GM CEO Mary Barra is the most powerful woman in business. The magazine just released its 2015 Most Powerful Women List, an annual ranking of the top 50 women business leaders in the world, and Barra took the number one spot for leading her company “out from under the shadow of its 2014 ignition-switch recall.”
Read MoreNoted anthropologist Margaret Mead once said: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
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