This hiding however is starting to backfire on us. The reason? The world is aching for feminine wisdom to come forward. The world is starving for feminine compassion and connection. The world is begging for you, as a woman, to step forward with your voice so that you can heal our planet.
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Why Aren’t There More Women in Leadership Positions?
Ultimately I think for more women to be in leadership positions, we (both women and men) need to honor the feminine qualities of our intuitive nature, compassionate nature, and our emotional nature.
Women in U.S. Leadership: What’s Next?
More women’s voices are needed in public leadership. In the U.S., there are 72 women in the U.S. House of Representatives, 17 women in the Senate, and only six female governors.
Amazing Women Rock: Promoting Gender Balance in Speaker Leadership
Susan Macaulay speaking last year on gender parity at TEDxAjman. “TED suffers a dearth of women speakers on its worldwide stages. That’s an issue. But it’s also an opportunity,” says Susan. After observing that women have trouble taking credit for their success, and therefore miss out on a lot of opportunities, Canadian-born Susan Macaulay grew [...]
Exclusive Interview with Nicholas Kristof: Women Hold Up Half the Sky
Exclusive interview with Nicholas Kristof by Tabby Biddle.
The Real Heroines in Media
Last week in New York and Los Angeles, The International Women’s Media Foundation recognized four women journalists for their courage and willingness to risk their lives to cover the news in order to shine a light on repressive governments, corruption, injustice and crimes against humanity.
Girls Not Brides: A Movement to End Child Marriage
“People don’t seem to talk much about child brides … but I can not stay silent,” said Archbishop Desmond Tutu last month at the Social Good Summit in New York City. Held during UN Week, the Social Good Summit was a partnership effort between the United Nations Foundation, Mashable, and the 92nd Street Y to bring global leaders together with a live audience in New York City and thousands around the world participating via Livestream.
The Paradox Around Female Sexuality
In many parts of the world women are valued based on their chastity. Whether you are in India, the Middle East, or even in the United States, there is a religious and cultural obsession with female virginity. The irony is that if a woman is found to not be a virgin (whether true or not), the punishment is often rape, or even worse, a stoning to her death.
Reclaiming Aphrodite
Written by Tabby Biddle Truth be told, I never considered myself an Aphrodite-type of Goddess. I am more of an Artemis, Tara, or Saraswati. Action goddesses. Doers. Seekers. Creatives. Even though I am well aware that we contain every single aspect of the Goddess within us, Aphrodite always felt like an archetype for someone else. [...]
joinFITE: Put women around the world on the path to Financial Independence Through Entrepreneurship
Kiva and Dermologica launch microlending platform joinFITE.org to fund women entrepreneurs. Join Team Tabby to help women achieve financial independence through entrepreneurship.
The New ‘Smart’
Aha. I knew what she was talking about. This was a kind of smart that I related to. This is a kind of smart that lies within my body, and lies within my soul. This is a kind of smart that feels unique to me. This is a kind of smart that helps me see what someone needs to take them the next step further in their life. This is the kind of smart that allows me to “see” things by feeling them first in my body. This is a feminine wisdom smart.
The Sexual Future of Women & Girls
The wound that is being created and perpetuated by our cultural distortion and commercialization of female sexuality needs to be and can be stopped. We have an opportunity today to hold the space and teach girls and young women that their bodies are special, sacred and beautiful. We have an opportunity today as women to use our voices to express our questions and doubts about the direction our culture is taking girls, and initiate public discussion on the topic, just at Peggy Orenstein is doing.
The OpEd Project: Amplifying Women’s Voices in the Media
The OpEd Project is an initiative to expand the range of voices we hear in the media, with a specific focus on increasing the number of women thought leaders participating and leading the public discussion.
Queen Rania Helps Kick Off Girl Up’s ‘Unite for Girls’ Tour
Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joined hundreds of teen girls at a Girl Up rally in Los Angeles last Friday to raise awareness and funds to help adolescent girls in developing countries around the world.
The Women’s Conference 2010: Maria Shriver Inspires Women to be Architects of Change
There was barely a dry eye in the arena as Maria Shriver spoke from the heart about her journey as a woman trying to find her own voice and truth. Although many of us think of Maria as “having it all” as the First Lady of California and a powerful family legacy in American politics, she revealed her struggles as a woman trying find her way. Like most women, she has been challenged to identify her self-worth outside of the labels of mom, wife, sister, daughter, and career woman – and instead find it in her truth.
Re-Empowering Birthing Mothers
Because so many women don’t have an image of what a natural, empowered birth looks like, there is a lot of fear surrounding the act giving birth. Accordingly, the majority of women give their inner authority over to doctors in their birth process. They trust the doctors more than themselves. The problem with this is that many women aren’t aware that the majority of her doctor’s medical decisions are being made today for monetary and legal reasons, and not necessarily for the good of her and her baby.
Girl Up: Give a “High Five”
One such campaign, which had its official launch this month, is called Girl Up. Started by the United Nations Foundation, Girl Up was created to channel the energy and compassion of American teen girls as a powerful force for change. As Girl Up global advocate Queen Rania of Jordan has put it, “Girl Up is about changing peer networking from sharing movies and music, to sharing missions and movements.”
The Clinton Global Initiative: Empowering Girls and Women
“So when you educate a woman, you really do transform societies,” said Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan yesterday in the panel discussion. “It’s not just about doing girls a favor, it’s really about benefits that cascade throughout society and really make a huge difference.”
