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Moving to Action: The National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality Webcast
The White House Gender Policy Council’s release of the National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality is a historic accomplishment that is the first-of-its-kind in the US. Its release is a crucial step toward addressing gender inequality and paves the way to further amplify our voices and solutions across generations, geography, gender and sectors to ensure its …
Centering Black Women in Our Economic Recovery
by Roselande “Roe” Louis, Senior Program Associate, Leadership and Aspen Forum on Women and Girls Long before the pandemic, racial and gender injustice created barriers that prevented women of color from accessing quality jobs and equitable healthcare. Today, these challenges have only been exacerbated. We see this in the disproportionate unemployment and maternal mortality rates, …
SOAR Action Plan
You’ve seen the SOAR Leadership Series conversation featuring inspiring and emerging women trailblazers. You’ve read the Watch Party and Discussion Guide to help shape conversations around issues facing women and girls. Now, it is time for YOU to act and be the change that you want to see in the world. Let your passion be …
The Aspen Institute Forum on Women and Girls
The Aspen Institute Forum on Women and Girls lifts up promising ideas and leaders and builds on the strength of families to support women and girls in the U.S. and around the world move toward opportunity and equality.
The Forum hosts a series of conversations and programs with diverse, creative, and bold social justice leaders to advance women’s economic justice, political participation, civic engagement, and leadership. We enter these conversations with a sense of both urgency and possibility.
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Women and Girls Leading Now
We don’t want tragedy to be the center of our work, because that’s really not who Black folks are. That’s what they experience, but that’s not an identity.
Lulete Mola
President and Co-Founder, Philanthropic Collective to Combat Anti-Blackness and Realize Racial Justice
COVID-19 gives us all a unique opportunity to transform the systems that we have been so accustomed to, and it provides us with an unmistakable look at the power and resilience of women.
Tsion Yohannes Waka
Chair, Center for Gender Equity, University of Global Health Equity