Women’s Room
WGLI Board Director Mica Zuniga Presents Thought Provoking Session on Global Economies at the 2017 Regional Economic Forecast & Innovation Expo
SAN FRANCISCO – December 9, 2017 - Women’s Global Leadership Initiative (WGLI), today, announced their participation and support in the 2017 Regional Economic Forecast & Innovation Expo, a one-day event focused on setting the economic stage for Washington State's Pacific Mountain 5-county region in the coming year. The expo occurred [...]
Women’s Global Leadership Initiative to Speak at Silicon Valley Women’s Empowerment Conference
The 2017 Women of Color Leadership Forum: Changing the Game is the premiere Bay Area gathering to inspire and ignite change San Francisco, CA – November 3, 2017 – Today, the Women’s Global Leadership Initiative (WGLI), an international nonprofit dedicated to training women to become successful leaders in their communities, [...]
Closing the Wage Gap Through STEM Education
By Roxanne Leone Since today is National Teacher Appreciation Day, education has been on our minds here at WGLI. Especially STEM education, and especially for women in STEM. You may be surprised that the wage gap between men and women in STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) occupations is much [...]
The Controversial Story Behind Taking Our Kids to Work
By Michelle Heller It started in one small office in New York, grew to 3.5 million offices around the world, and even reached one little office called the White House. It’s “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work” Day, and it’s today. The international career day for kids began as [...]
This Earth Day, We Honor Environmentalist Leader Rachel Carson
By Roxanne Leone You're probably one of the 1 billion people worldwide who celebrate Earth Day, which was first inaugurated by a group of American environmentalists on April 22, 1970. Twenty years later Earth Day went global, and today, it's the largest civic observance in the world! But even though [...]
Tax Day: Could It Be the New International Women’s Day?
By Michelle Spita Happy Tax Day, that time-honored tradition when most Americans are scrambling last minute to file their taxes. Americans usually use their tax refunds for lavish vacations and pricey, unnecessary purchases, and sure, one could make the argument that the spike of cash hitting the market is good [...]
Happy No Housework Day
By Michelle Spita A few weeks back, a British man was publicly mortified when his two young children burst into his home office in the middle of a live on-camera interview with the BBC. It was a scenario many parents could relate to, and naturally the clip went viral. [...]
Celebrate #EqualPayDay, Phenomenal Women!
Today is Equal Pay Day and there's no question this day is significant to WGLI. This date symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year. By now we are all familiar with the statistic that a woman working full-time, year-round [...]
Lilly Ledbetter: 2017 Women’s History Month Honoree
By Brooke Erickson March is Women’s History Month every year of course, but for everyone here at WGLI, this year’s Women’s History Month is unusually significant: the National Women’s History Project has named 2017 the year to honor “Trailblazing Women in Labor and Business,” and one trailblazer in particular, Lilly [...]
This International Women’s Day, #BeBoldForChange
By Michelle Heller You probably didn’t know that International Women’s Day dates back more than 100 years. But it does — this year’s International Women’s Day will mark more than a century of powerful, passionate women leaders rallying for everything from women’s suffrage to rural poverty. Leon Trotsky himself credited [...]
Women in STEM: Challenges That Need Our Attention
By Arti Jasrotia We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women are to start moving towards that goal, we must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with [...]
Men Who Are Feminists: We Love YOU
By Carrie Hall, Director of Public Relations, WGLI The word 'feminist' has been a part of our vocabularies since most of us were very young. Whether someone said the word disparagingly or not, we knew feminists were women even if we didn’t know what they did or even if we were [...]
4 Quotes that Will Crush Your Image of Norway as a Feminist Utopia
By Inga Helgudóttir Ingulfsen Being a native of Iceland and Norway – two progressive Nordic welfare states – while living in Brooklyn, I often find myself boasting of my home countries’ feminist social policies, such as the one-year long parental leave, the low cost of childcare, or their high rankings on [...]