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5 Ways Today’s Women Leaders Can Develop Positive Company Culture
We’ve all encountered that one woman who can command a room as soon as she walks in. Wearing heels and a powersuit, she towers over everyone, no matter how tall she is. When she speaks, you can tell she's a leader. We’ve come to know these women as the “Girl [...]
Reclaiming Our Holidays, An Ode to Indigenous Peoples Day
Aw, Columbus Day. The faux holiday on the second Monday in October, typically celebrated by the closing of banks and schools for a white dude who didn’t actually discover anything. In 1992, the City of Berkeley, home to the 1960s Free Speech Movement and located 13 miles east of San [...]
Successes and Challenges in Developing Countries
More and more women in developing markets and lower-income countries are driven to start their own enterprise. From restaurants, to high-end nail salons to volunteer organizations helping other girls and women, women leaders around the world are creating businesses and organizations that not only impact their own lives, but also [...]
Women’s Global Leadership Initiative (WGLI) to Co-host a Workshop with Breaking Glass
San Francisco, CA – February 1st, 2018 — Today, Women’s Global Leadership Initiative (WGLI), announced it plans to co-host a workshop with Breaking Glass Forum aimed at raising awareness on sexual harassment on February 8th, 2018 at Cobaltix—1095 Folsom St. San Francisco, CA 94103 from 6p.m. to 8:30p.m. WGLI is [...]
Myth Busting 101: Sexual Harassment
By Mandy J. Benson Some have expressed fear that the #MeToo, #WeSaidEnough and #TimesUp campaigns are taking things too far. There seems to be an assumption by some that the women who have complained of sexual harassment are demanding that employers push the alleged harasser to resign or be fired [...]
#MeToo needs allyship not black dresses
Authored by WGLI Staff Writer, Megan Imperial Amidst all the buzz surrounding the Golden Globes and the “Me Too” campaign, sexual harassment has been at the forefront of activism. In entertainment and Hollywood, many of the predators have finally been brought to justice evidenced by blacklisting. From Harvey Weinstein to [...]