Accenture to Receive Corporate Equality Award at the 2016 HRC Greater NY Gala...
(Source: Human Rights Campaign) NEW YORK - Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, announced that...
View ArticleInside Dr. Nina Ansary's Book Launch in the UK
Best-selling author and historian, Dr. Nina Ansary hosts official book launch for Jewels of Allah in the UK The masses were on hand on October 12 at Dr. Nina Ansary's talent-packed launch event for her...
View ArticleBehind The Social Movement That's Raising Awareness Of Police Violence...
A social activist group is aiming to raise awareness of the female victims of police violence by creating a campaign around T-shirts bearing the women's names along with a three word call to action:...
View ArticleA Leader in Innovation & Gender Equality
By Ava Marie Lopez, WiSci STEAM Camp participant Whenever I tell people here in the United States about WiSci, they tend to struggle with comprehending what I did. When you hear about an American going...
View Article3 Ways Female Millennial Entrepreneurs Can Achieve the UN's Education and...
This past Sunday, the United Nations reached its 70th anniversary. The United Nations Association of San Diego (UNA-USA SD) celebrated in style at the Prado Ballroom in Balboa Park. This included a...
View ArticleHow Companies Make Women Less Ambitious Over Time
In Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, the Facebook executive acknowledged the structural sexism that women face in the workplace but sought to...
View ArticleThese 10 Women Entrepreneurs Are Smoking The Marijuana Industry
PORTLAND, Ore. -- With recreational marijuana now legal in the state, entrepreneurs in Oregon are showing that the end of prohibition isn't just about smoking joints legally. It's good business, and...
View ArticleSarah Kaler
The Successful Woman Entrepreneurs Give Back article series focuses on women who have mastered the art of creating and maintaining a business that sustains and enriches every aspect of their lives. The...
View ArticlePatricia Arquette Says Her Oscar Speech Was Meant To Be Inclusive Of 'All Women'
Earlier this year, when she won an Oscar for 2014's "Boyhood," Patricia Arquette used her acceptance speech to make an impassioned plea for female wage equality. But critics pounced on her language,...
View ArticleWomen and the Global Fight Against Hunger
In attempting to understand the conditions in which women around the world live, we have come to realize that much of the information about women simply is not available. We are missing nearly 80...
View ArticleLGBT Equal Rights Measure On The Ropes In Houston
Early voting results show Houston's equal rights ordinance failing by a wide margin, with 62.5 percent of voters opting to repeal the law and 37.5 percent supporting the embattled ordinance. Those...
View ArticleWhen Young Black Women Command The Stage
Actress and Oakland native Rolanda Bell opens up about her absent father and the play produced by the Ubuntu Theater Project that brought them back together. "I think that theater has the power to...
View ArticleWhy Men Are Central To the Gender Equality Equation in Advertising
By Jill Sherman, SVP, Social Strategy, DigitasLBi For female creative leaders trying to crack the gender parity code in a male-dominated industry, pushing boundaries and advocating for more women at...
View ArticleThis Is What Can Happen When Men Talk About Gender Equality
Here's more proof that men are important allies in the movement for gender equality. As part of its #ThatsWhatHeSaid series, SoulPancake invited a diverse group of men to discuss catcalling, consent...
View ArticleMeet the Men Moving the Needle for Gender Equality
This article is part of TheToolbox.org's #WomenInFront series, powered by Humanise. Learn more about the initiative at WomenInFront.net, or join the conversation on social media: Twitter, Facebook, and...
View ArticleMeet The Women Behind Your Favorite Instagram Accounts
The Internet is a dichotomous institution, shrouded in mystery while simultaneously being an open chest of...
View ArticleHere's Something Easy You Can Do To Support The Future Of Women's Rights
Equal rights have come a long way since the events depicted in "Suffragette," but the studio that distributed the movie is fighting to eradicate the gender inequality that is still...
View ArticleChile Sets the Trend for Women
By Carolina Carrasco and Maria Teresa Villanueva Maria Teresa Villanueva leads the development and implementation of Multilateral Investment Fund projects to help women start and grow their businesses,...
View ArticleSandra Bullock Wants More Than Just Equal Pay For Women
Sandra Bullock knows that closing the wage gap is just one step towards gender equality. In Variety's cover story this week, Bullock talked about why more than equal pay is necessary to truly level...
View ArticleSalesforce Adjusts Salaries By $3 Million To Ensure Women Are Paid Equally
Salesforce.com said Tuesday that it made $3 million in adjustments to employee salaries this year to make sure women and men are paid equally. “We looked at every single one of our female employees’...
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