by Gloria Feldt on August 17th, 2011
in 9 Ways Blog, Create a Movement, Gender, Inspiration, Leadership, No Excuses, Power Tools, She's Doing It
Are you afraid on your daily commute? Leering glances. Unwanted physical contact. Harassing, suggestive derogatory comments thrown at you while you are just minding your own business on the bus, train or simply walking down the street. Are you fed up in having to always be on your guard when you are just trying to live your life? Talk to most women and these experiences are ones that have caused not only fear for your own personal safety but also a sense of deep outrage.
In this week’s She’s Doing It, I couldn’t be prouder to highlight Emily May, co-founder and Executive Director of Hollaback! as someone who has taken the global problem of street harassment and embraced Power Tool #7: Create a Movement with both arms and mobile technology!
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Tagged as: Advocacy, awareness, crowd-sourced initiative, Emily May, gender-based violence, Gloria Feldt, Hollaback, LGBTQ, mobile technology, power tool #7, sexual harassment, She's Doing It, violence against women, women's rights
by Gloria Feldt on August 12th, 2011
in 9 Ways Blog, Equal pay, Gender, Inspiration, Leadership, No Excuses, Politics, Workplace
PHOTO: NWPC CA President and National Vice President for Board Development Teray Stephens and I checking out the Good Guy Awards.
I had the honor of emceeing the National Women’s Political Caucus 40th anniversary convention Good Guys Gala July 30th in Washington DC.
The Caucus started giving “Good Guys” awards back in 1971 as a way of recognizing and encouraging the then-rare men who joined in efforts to get women elected and appointed to political positions. Later, the great feminist and late Congresswoman Bella Abzug (D-NY) created an award to memorialize her supportive spouse, Martin–the Martin Abzug Supportive Spouse Award. I’m proud to say that my husband Alex Barbanell received this award a decade ago. In his acceptance speech, he revealed that he is my chief cook, bottle washer, and sex slave…
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Tagged as: 2011 AAUW Convention, 21st Century workplace, Alex Barbanell, Anthony Weiner, Bella Abzug, domestic violence, Dr. Michael Kimmel, Gloria Feldt, Good Guys Gala, Jimmie Briggs, Man Up Campaign, Martin Abzug, National Organization for Men Against Sexism, National Women's Political Caucus, NOMAS, PBS News Hour, Project Girl Performance Collective, sexual assault, Sojourner Truth, Suzanna Braun Levine, Teray Stephens, Voices of Men, Women's Media Center
by Gloria Feldt on August 10th, 2011
in 9 Ways Blog, Gender, Inspiration, Leadership, No Excuses, She's Doing It, Workplace
When I was told by my good Midland TX friend Dr. Norman Gould that the congregation I belonged to when I lived in West Texas had hired a woman, Rabbi Holly Cohn, as its first fulltime spiritual leader, I knew instantly that I wanted to write about her for this “She’s Doing It” column. I found her optimism and devotion to her calling inspiring. And I was also struck by how women are playing an ever-larger role in religion and religious observance.
This piece was originally published on the Sisterhood Blog of the Jewish Daily Forward. “Rabbi Holly in Mojoland” was my original title. I’d love to know your reactions. And whatever your religious persuasion, what have been your own experiences as women have been taking on increasingly significant roles as members of the clergy?
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Tagged as: clergy, devotion, Dr. Norman Gould, Gloria Feldt, Hebrew Union College, Jewish Daily Forward, Jewish women, leadership, new media, Odessa, Rabbi Holly Cohn, She's Doing It, Sisterhood Blog, spiritual leader, Temple Beth El, West Texas, women in religion
by Gloria Feldt on August 5th, 2011
in Carpe the Chaos, Leadership, No Excuses, Politics, Power Tools
It’s been quite a week between the lawmakers in Washington taking the debt-ceiling deal to the 11th hour and yesterday being one of the worst days in the financial markets since 2008. Yet despite all the chaos, this Friday’s Round Up is going deploy Power Tool #5 ‘Carpe the Chaos’ and keep marching forward to highlight some of the good, not just the bad and the ugly – we’ve had quite enough of that…
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Tagged as: 'drive the bus', Affordable Health Care Act, carpe the chaos, debt-ceiling deal, Donna Norton, ForbesWoman, Gloria Feldt, HHS Secretary for Health Dr Howard Koh, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, MomsRising.org, power tool #5, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Victoria Pynchon
by Gloria Feldt on August 3rd, 2011
in 9 Ways Blog, Employ Every Medium, Gender, Inspiration, Leadership, No Excuses, Politics, She's Doing It
This week’s She’s Doing It features popular blogger ‘PunditMom’ Joanne Bamberger. She is not only illuminating women’s clout and influence both online and in the political realm but uses her voice to get out the message of the importance of political motherhood and mothers in politics. Joanne is an amazing example of No Excuses Power Tool #8, “Employ Every Medium”…
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Tagged as: BlogHer, Claire Shipman, Connie Schultz, employ every medium, Gloria Feldt, Jaelithe Judy, Joanne Bamberger, Lisa Frack, Liz Gumbinner, Mom-101, MOMocrats, momsrising, mothers in poltics, Political Activism, political motherhood, power tool #8, Punditmom, PunditMom's Mothers of Intention, Senator Patty Murray, She's Doing It, social media, the "M" word, The Broad Side, The DC Mom's, Veronica Arreola, Viva la Feminista
by Gloria Feldt on July 29th, 2011
in 9 Ways Blog, Gender, Inspiration, Leadership, No Excuses
This week, I’ve been preparing to emcee the National Women’s Political Caucus “Good Guys” Gala at the Caucus’s 40th anniversary convention. Emcees are supposed to be somewhat humorous, and I got to thinking about how some people (remember when the curmudgeonly Christopher Hitchens lobbed the idea in Vanity Fair?) like to say women aren’t funny. Especially feminists. So this week’s Friday Round Up is devoted to women who make us laugh…
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Tagged as: Cory Kahaney, feminists, funny women, Gloria Feldt, Kathleen Madigan, Kay Ballard, Kristin Wiig, Lewis Black, National Women's Political Caucus, Robin Williams, Rush Limbaugh, stand-up comedy, Tina Fey, USO Holiday Tour, women comics
by Gloria Feldt on July 27th, 2011
in 9 Ways Blog, Carpe the Chaos, Gender, Inspiration, Leadership, No Excuses, Power Tools, She's Doing It, Workplace
Did you know women are the fastest growing group of armed forces veterans with estimates of growing from 1.8 million in 2010 to 2.1 million by 2036? I didn’t until I read some recent reports.
Women have made great strides throughout the U.S. Military, serving in almost every position now. This is a big change in an organizational culture designed by men for men. Change as we know, can create chaos, or at least the feeling of chaos. This week’s “She’s Doing It” celebrates those brave women in uniform, and looks at how they are using No Excuses Power Tool #5, “carpe the chaos” when Janie comes marching home.
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by Gloria Feldt on July 22nd, 2011
in 9 Ways Blog, Inspiration, Know Your History, Leadership, No Excuses, Politics, Power Tools
July 19th was the 163rd anniversary of the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention that is generally regarded as the start of the women’s movement in the U. S. So this week’s roundup has to be about power tool #1: Know your history and you can create the future of your choice.
Sandy Magnus and three other (male) NASA astronauts returned to earth early Thursday morning aboard the final flight of Atlantis. Magnus, 46, is an engineer and a veteran in space exploration since joining NASA in 1996. She now has the distinction of being the last woman ever to fly on a NASA space shuttle which is being retired after three decades of service. And she has a sense of history, and the historic nature of her own work.
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Tagged as: Allen West, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, democratic national committee, ESPN, Gloria Feldt, Karen Nyberg, NASA, No Excuses, No Excuses power tools, Sandy Magnus, Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention, sexism, space shuttle Atlantis, Women's World Cup
by Gloria Feldt on July 20th, 2011
in 9 Ways Blog, Create a Movement, Inspiration, Leadership, No Excuses, She's Doing It, Tell Your Story
Tagged as: Chocola, community development, community libraries, Earl de Berge, education, farmers, food security, NGO, No Excuses, nutrition, poverty, Riecken Foundation, sustainability, Suzanne de Berge, volunteers, women's empowerment
by Gloria Feldt on July 18th, 2011
in 9 Ways Blog, Create a Movement, Inspiration, Leadership, No Excuses, She's Doing It, Tell Your Story
Suzanne and Earl de Berge
This week’s “She’s Doing It” column features both a he and a she: a couple who have worked together throughout their adult lives in their Arizona-based business and now are devoting their skills to amazing community development work in rural Guatemala. First of a two-part series.
Suzanne and Earl de Berge founded the public opinion research firm Behavior Research Center in 1965, with Suzanne running the business end and Earl the research end. Politically independent, I met them when BRC began doing opinion research for Planned Parenthood in Arizona in the early 1980’s. They were usually correct in their recommendations, helping us win ballot initiatives and score some big wins in a tough political climate. Here’s Earl’s description of what they are doing now, why this is their dream, and how they are leading–not following–it.
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Tagged as: Chocola, common goals, community development, dreams, Earl de Berge, empowerment, Gloria Feldt, grass roots, Guatemala, leadership skills, NGO, No Excuses, poverty, sustainability, Suzanne de Berge, teamwork, women's empowerment
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