It’s nearly impossible to overstate the value of women coming together. We talk a lot about women’s empowerment around here, but the best stories are usually when—you guessed it—women invest in women. Whether we’re investing time, support, money, or more in one another; when women come together, everyone wins. Today, we’d like to share some stories of women coming together: to cooperate, to share experiences facing similar hurdles, to found and lead organizations and movements that promote and showcase women, or to offer a hand to the next woman after their own successes. We’re inspired to continue being a part of this conversation—as we look at women as a group and the systemic issues they face and honor their individual contributions; as we mark progress and the challenges women still help one another through; and as we bring people of all genders into the conversations.
How Powerful Women and Girls Are Connecting Around the World Through Marketing, from Yahoo Finance—“In recent years, women have been meeting together at conventions to share ideas, collaborate, and network. With similar visions, aspirations, attitudes, or job titles, these gatherings are bringing women together in an industry that still statistically has a gender gap.”
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Met Greta Thunberg: ‘Hope Is Contagious’, from The Guardian—“One is America’s youngest-ever congresswoman, the other a Swedish schoolgirl. Two of the most powerful voices on the climate speak for the first time. […] There is something very moving about the conversation between these young women, a sense of generational rise that, as we know from every precedent from the Renaissance onwards, has the power to ignite movements and change history.”
The Infectious Idealism of the U.S. Women’s National Team, from The Atlantic—“Only one women’s team has ever repeated a World Cup—as the U.S. is poised to do—and certainly no team has prevailed while its co-captain rhetorically jousts with its president and the squad battles its boss for equal pay.”
Madam President? Five Candidates on What It Will Take to Shatter the Most Stubborn Glass Ceiling, from Vogue—“For the first time, multiple women stand on the presidential-debate stages, their presence signaling to millions of Americans that the era of a dozen men—and maybe a lone woman—arguing the issues is over. […] These candidates have also, inevitably, reminded us of the hurdles, bordering on bulwarks, that women at the highest level of American politics still face. To many of us, watching the 2020 race unfold has felt less like a celebration of rah-rah feminism and more like a daily, live-tweeted, televised pelting by the patriarchy. Indeed, we cannot assess any of these candidates without also assessing our own biases. Debates about who is ‘electable’ (or not) have become a smokescreen for lingering discomfort with what we have still, after 243 years as a republic, never seen: the election of a woman president.”
Women Who Tech Launches HealthTech Innovation Program, Calls for Europe Startup Challenge Applications, from Pulse 2.0—“WomenWho Tech, a nonprofit organization that funds and showcases women-led ventures, announced it is calling for applications for the European leg of its flagship Startup Challenge program focused on healthtech.”
Four Women Who Conquered Venture Capital and Are Paying It Forward, from Marketplace—“It has to be a conversation between men and women. It has to be sincere. It has to be this realization that women make up 50 percent of the population and control nearly 80 percent of consumer spending. This is the demographic that they want. And here with ‘Alpha Girls’ is this playbook for how women do it and how astounding these women can be even with these ridiculous barriers.”
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