Tag: women

The Buzz: Women in Business, Show Your Wonder!

For that woman on the verge of starting her business: please silence the voices of failure and push past the doubt. We are waiting for you. When you show up in that space, courtroom, boardroom, or business, you challenge the people who believe success only comes in a certain package or gender.

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The Buzz: Silent No More 

The hard reality of this work is that there are those who don’t know how to use their voice or who don’t yet realize that they have one. For them, we are champions. For them, our voices needed to ring loud. For the girl that hid in the shadows always thinking that something wasn’t quite right for those 30 years, the woman that I have become will always use her voice so that other little girls feel empowered. We as women must use our voices so that little Black and Brown girls will not have to wait 30 years to understand the power behind their words.

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A Point of View: Gender on My Nails 

When my wife began her transition, I had a lot of feelings. I felt afraid, isolated, and confused. I also experienced a few feelings that came as a shock, though. The biggest one was jealousy. As my wife began exploring her identity as a woman in the world, my brain kept saying, “Why does she get to paint her nails green?” I hadn’t painted my nails in years at that point. “Why does she get to wear colorful floral prints?” My closet was filled with black, navy, and grey. Eventually, I noticed the silent ending to all of these questions: “Why does she get to do these things…and I don’t?”  Once I heard that coda, the uncomfortable truth set in.

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The Buzz: Nothing Will Work Unless Women Do!

There are many unanticipated and unwanted consequences from the pandemic, and women leaving the workforce in unprecedented numbers is one of them. In the last year, four times as many women left the workforce as men and the unemployment rate for women at the end of 2020 was 30 percent. This situation could reverse the gains in workplace gender equity made over the past 50 years. This is a huge issue globally, and I am only touching on implications in the U.S.

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