Women Don’t Need Empowerment: We Can Empower Ourselves

Women Don’t Need Empowerment: We Can Empower Ourselves

Empowerment noun -1 Authority or power given to someone to do something. -2 The process of becoming stronger and more confident, especially in controlling one’s life and claiming one’s rights. Empower has become my least favorite word, particularly when applied to...
Mother’s Day Edition: Real Life Superheroes

Mother’s Day Edition: Real Life Superheroes

What does the word superhero conjure up for you?  Marvel and DC? Superman and Wonder Woman? Larger than life beings flying around in capes saving the world from doom? Well, when I try to imagine beings with amazing superpowers, I tend to look a little closer to home....
Celebrating Black Women Scientists

Celebrating Black Women Scientists

The blockbuster film about NASA’s human computers, Hidden Figures, made famous the black women scientists Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Katherine Johnson. There are so many other black women scientists who’ve achievements also deserve the spotlight....
How Companies can Support and Celebrate Women in the Workplace

How Companies can Support and Celebrate Women in the Workplace

Though workplace culture has come a long way in terms of supporting and hiring women, there is still far more work that needs to be done. Whether that work is addressing the pay gap between men and women or taking a zero tolerance policy to harassment, businesses need...