TOP (L TO R): JOYCE MENG AND JENNIFER CHEN OF GIVOLOGY, LINDSAY HYDE OF STRONG WOMEN STRONG GIRLS, HANNAH MCCONN AND RANDRYIA HOUSTON OF PENCILS 4 GHANA; BOTTOM (L TO R): JASMINE SEGALL OF BERKELEY MICROFINANCE, CATHARINE BELLINGER AND ALEXIS MORIN OF STUDENTS FOR EDUCATION REFORM, KIRSTEN LODAL OF LIFT. These young women didn’t wait until they got a degree to make an impact for others. 1. Givology: Educating kids around the globe Founded by Joyce Meng, Oxford, and Jennifer Chen, University … [Read more...]
Why Women Still ‘Can’t Have It All’ … or Can We?
October 8, 2012 by
Why Women Still 'Can’t Have It All' ... or Can We? It’s time to stop fooling ourselves, says a woman who left a position of power: the women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are superhuman, rich, or self-employed. If we truly believe in equal opportunity for all women, here’s what has to change. EIGHTEEN MONTHS into my job as the first woman director of policy planning at the State Department, a foreign-policy dream job that traces its origins back to George … [Read more...]
WOMAN of ACTION™ – Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu
August 31, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women™ is elated to Celebrate the Life of this powerful female presence that graced our earth, living her life ahead of her times. WOMAN of ACTION™ Chien-Shiung Wu "I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe. I disproved one of the then widely accepted "laws" of physics, 'the conversation of parity', by proving that identical nuclear particles do not always act … [Read more...]
