When Leadership Requires Keeping Your Hand On the Plow
Issue 247 — December 11, 2023
“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.” — Alice Paul, suffragist leader and author of the Equal Rights Amendment, which a century later still is not published into the U.S. Constitution.
Read MoreWear the Shirt of Change: Representing the Power of Women’s Leadership This Giving Tuesday
Issue 246 — November 27, 2023
No doubt you have noticed that Giving Tuesday 2023 is today, November 27. I’m challenging you to share what’s on the shirt of your convictions about women’s leadership.
My personal favorite shirt is historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s well-used quote, “Well behaved women rarely make history.” But today I’m wearing the shirt designed by Michael Stars for this Giving Tuesday.
Read MoreWhy Women’s Leadership Is The Secret To Family Economic Security
Issue 245 — November 20, 2023
Scrolling social media, as I do far too much, I saw this post:
Read MoreTiffany Shlain Creates Femonology: Don’t Miss This October Surprise!
Issue 243— October 9, 2023
Given world events today, it’s fair to ask: Would history unfold differently if gender equality were the norm?
This week we’ll tackle that question of world history through a gender lens.
Read MoreYour October Surprises From Take The Lead
Issue 242 — October 2, 2023
No, not October surprises like in politics, where they’re always bad news. We don’t need those.
These FREE juicy morsels of practical information to use and inspiration to lift us up, served up in brief, engaging chats, will spice up the fall without the calories of pumpkin spice lattes. Though feel free to sip one while joining us for these conversations.
Read MoreUnlocking Success: The Secret Every Entrepreneur Should Know
Issue 241 — September 25, 2023
📢 Attention Entrepreneurs: Are you an aspiring, budding, or seasoned founder? Regardless of where you are in your journey, this snippet from the “Women’s Health Through the Lifecycle” panel that took place at Take The Lead’s Women’s Equality Day Power Up Concert and Conference is meant for you:
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Angel City Football Club Transforms Women’s Sports — and the Movement for Gender Equality
Cut to the chase: Are you a female entrepreneur? Take The Lead has an incredible opportunity for you to get the mindset, skillset, and connections to scale your business. (And get a $10,000 value program for pennies!)
Apply NOW — Start 9/27 to get “jet fuel for your business.”
Read MoreAngel City Football Club Transforms Women’s Sports — and the Movement for Gender Equality
Philosopher William James called sports “the moral equivalent of war.”
That’s an inherently patriarchal lens on sports. Everything in that framework is about power and power in turn is about war and fighting, with the assumption that someone has to win, someone has to lose, and there’s no in-between.
Read MoreShouldn’t It Be Called Women’s INequality Day?
Issue 239 - August 28, 2023
Last night, attending an Angel City Football Club soccer game (they won 3–1!), I had a tearing up moment chatting with a woman I happened to be standing next to. She had come down to Los Angeles from the Bay Area to bring her two elementary school aged daughters to the game. She said, “Can you imagine? We never got to see anything like this. The women’s team, owned by women, run by women, supported by so many women?”
I looked at her girls cheering away, waving their Angel City scarves, and felt so proud of how far we have come on the long road to equality.