Posts Tagged ‘gender balance’
Mother’s Day 2021: How Can We Celebrate Differently?
This Mother’s Day commit to becoming an advocate Mother’s Day in the United States was established in the early 19th century as an annual holiday celebrated on the second Sunday in May. According to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, the day is a widely observed national holiday to “recognize and appreciate mothers’ roles in our lives. Often this…
Read MoreCreating Gender Advocates – Virtual Series
Two Free Gifts to Accelerate Advocacy for Advancing Women! Announcing the YWomen creating gender advocates virtual series. This year has been filled with unexpected twists and turns. Given the headlines (like the recent Labor Department report that 865,000 women over age 20 dropped out of the American workforce in September compared with 216,000 men in the same…
Read MoreWomen’s Advancement in the Wake of #MeToo and #TimesUp
A conversation on gender and work – part two. Several years ago, I spoke with Julie Harris Walker for THE OTHER 50%! podcast. At that time, she framed her podcast as a place where ‘we talk to successful women in Hollywood and hear their stories. And sometimes we talk to a man.’ I was honored…
Read MoreCelebrate Women’s History Month with Male Ally and Advocate, Jeffery Tobias Halter
To celebrate Women’s History Month, Julie Kratz, Founder of Pivot Point, interviewed Jeffery Tobias Halter for their podcast series on how male allies support women for gender equality. Jeffery is a gender strategist and the President of YWomen, a strategic consulting company focused on engaging men in women’s leadership advancement. As former Director of Diversity Strategy…
Read MoreMen: This Mother’s Day Become an Advocate for Women
What a difference a year makes. For the past couple of years, I’ve been saying that women’s advancement is stuck and the needle isn’t moving. Well, the needle may be stuck, but women’s voices are rising. In January we witnessed record-setting crowds for the Women’s March and while the headlines aren’t always positive, women’s issues…
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