Over the first year of Project Dandelion, a worldwide movement that strives to establish a climate-safe environment for all, we have worked to strengthen partnerships with women leaders who are on the front lines of climate solutions. This week, I write about an innovative, new approach to mitigating the climate impact of extreme heat in India that is yet another example of women leading for solutions that are just and sustainable.
Read MoreThe Transformative Power of Mentorships
The best mentorships contain learnings for both the mentor and the mentee. This week, I want to share the journey I took with Catalina Escobar, the founder of Colombia’s Juanfe Foundation, which offers an innovative model of care, education, and job training that is disrupting a cycle of violence in families and communities resulting in unwanted teen pregnancies and intergenerational poverty.
Read MoreOne Year On, the ‘Collateral Damage’ of Dobbs on Women's Health Care in America
One year after the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, women across the United States are feeling the effects. There are 25 million American women living in states with abortion bans or tighter restrictions. But even in states where abortion is legal, abortion providers are seeing patients who have traveled, sometimes great distances, to access reproductive care.
Read MoreThe Audacious Project Announces 2023 Changemakers
The idea for The Audacious Project sprang from the entrepreneurial and risk-taking minds of Jeff Skoll and Chris Anderson. They believed that the good work of innovators and entrepreneurs that the Skoll Foundation was funding and the ideas being presented in TED talks could be scaled if a big infusion of funding could be directed at the right time to the right people and organizations — those ready to make big changes.
Read More'This Decision Is Not Only a Requiem for Abortion Rights, It's Also a Requiem for the Court.'
Burnout Is a National Crisis. Let's Do Something About it.
Remember when one of the buzzwords at the start of the Covid pandemic was ‘reset’? I used it a lot as I tried to frame the dramatic changes we were all experiencing in the ways we lived and worked, especially during lockdowns and travel bans. Sadly, for way too many of our friends, families and colleagues, this time of isolation has been far from a positive reset. In fact, we are seeing evidence every day that mental and emotional struggles have increased, and families and businesses have had to respond.
Read MoreNew Podcast Interview: 'Showing Up for Women Everywhere'
In this episode of the Ending Domestic Abuse podcast, I talk with Dr. Ludy Green and share my story as a producer, CEO, abuse survivor, and advocate for women's rights and gender equality. We discuss how some of the lessons I learned and shared in my book, Becoming a Dangerous Woman, can help all women not only achieve our own goals, but also serve as role models and pillars of support for other women in our communities and across the world.
Read More'Please do not forget us" - the women of Afghanistan
Dr. Sakena Yacoobi is one of Afghanistan’s most honored and deeply committed women leaders. She founded and leads the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL), an organization that provides education, health, social and economic programming to Afghan women. In August, when the Taliban retook power in her country, she made an urgent plea to me and all other women around the world: "Please do not forget us."
Read More'We will not be quiet, and we will not go back'
I am preparing, sadly but with sustained passion, for the frontline struggles we face to reclaim these rights as essential to the full equality for women which I believe is also essential for a healthy, sustainable family, community, country and world.
Read MoreConnecting Women Leaders to Build Bridges For Change
There has never been a greater need for a commitment to serve others, to use our power and privilege as leaders to connect, collaborate, and lead for change. Are we doing enough to confront the global challenges that sometimes feel insurmountable?
Read MoreThe Sundance Film Festival: My Sofa Perspective
Resistance and accountability were the themes of this year's Sundance Film Festival. I want to point out two films, one narrative and one documentary, about a group of women who came together in the late 1960s in Chicago to help nearly 11,000 desperate women get safe abortions in the years before legal abortions were possible.
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A "Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity" to Solve a Universal American Problem
When I was a working single mother in Boston in the 1980s, finding a balance between work and parenting was a constant struggle. Legislation moving through Congress this week would make that struggle a little easier for so many working parents in America. And it's about time!
Read MoreEmotional Courage For the Win
I believe that the examples of Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka are something that we should honor and practice in our own lives. We need to listen to ourselves, own our feelings and be kind — not only to ourselves, but to others who are going through struggles we may not understand.
Read MoreBillions Pledged to Accelerate Gender Equity at Generation Equality Forum
The Generation Equality Forum, held in Paris from June 30 - July 2, 2021 and livestreamed to participants around the world, was a monumental event that set a new and unprecedented level of funding to prioritize and implement gender equality programs and commitments.
Read MoreThe Case For Her Co-Founder Cristina Ljungberg on Investing in Women's Health
Ljungberg is a co-founder of The Case For Her and an investor in women’s storytelling. Her organization works to raise awareness for women’s health issues that have been long underfunded and overlooked such as menstruation and sexual health and pleasure.
Read MoreDisaster patriarchy: how the pandemic has unleashed a war on women
As Covid-19 has swept the world there has been an explosion of violence against women, and a full-blown assault on their rights. It’s time to fight back against a system that allows women to be sacrificed, erased and violated.
Read MoreOne Billion Rising to Stop Sexual Violence
Globally, more than one in three women is a victim of sexual violence at some point in their lives. That's one billion women and girls. One billion. Every February, women and men rise up to create a new kind of consciousness about this violence, to dance, march, sing, and otherwise voice their resolve that this violence will no longer be tolerated and must be resisted until it is unthinkable.
Read MoreSneak Preview of Arianna Huffington's New Book, The Sleep Revolution
My friend Arianna Huffington's new book, The Sleep Revolution, on the science, history and mystery of sleep, is coming out on April 5th. I'm pleased to be able to share a sneak preview here on my blog, particularly one that looks at how sleep deprivation affects women. As Karen Brody, founder of the meditation program Bold Tranquility, told Arianna, “I coach busy women and this is what they tell me all the time: ‘I spent years getting educated and now I don’t have any energy to work.’”
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