She Is Me: How Women Will Save the World
Women are entering the national and international arena more than ever today, from political campaigns to corporate boards to entrepreneurship, and their success is showing. Statistics show that when women lead countries, those countries are less apt to go to war. There is also a positive correlation between the number of women on corporate boards and greater profits. Women entrepreneurs have also been shown to generate higher revenues and create more jobs than male entrepreneurs. In She Is Me, veteran journalist Lori Sokol, PhD, introduces readers to thirty-five women hailing from all walks of life who have successfully utilized qualities like compassion, empathy, introspection, and solidarity to create change and transform lives. Through interviews with women including Gloria Steinem, Billie Jean King, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Leymah Gbowee, readers will come to understand how these traits, which have long been considered soft and weak in our patriarchal culture, are actually proving more effective in transforming lives, securing our planet, and saving the world.
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She Is Me: How Women Will Save the World
Women are entering the national and international arena more than ever today, from political campaigns to corporate boards to entrepreneurship, and their success is showing. Statistics show that when women lead countries, those countries are less apt to go to war. There is also a positive correlation between the number of women on corporate boards and greater profits. Women entrepreneurs have also been shown to generate higher revenues and create more jobs than male entrepreneurs. In She Is Me, veteran journalist Lori Sokol, PhD, introduces readers to thirty-five women hailing from all walks of life who have successfully utilized qualities like compassion, empathy, introspection, and solidarity to create change and transform lives. Through interviews with women including Gloria Steinem, Billie Jean King, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Leymah Gbowee, readers will come to understand how these traits, which have long been considered soft and weak in our patriarchal culture, are actually proving more effective in transforming lives, securing our planet, and saving the world.
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She Is Me: How Women Will Save the World

She Is Me: How Women Will Save the World

by Lori Sokol PhD
She Is Me: How Women Will Save the World
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She Is Me: How Women Will Save the World

She Is Me: How Women Will Save the World

by Lori Sokol PhD

Overview

Women are entering the national and international arena more than ever today, from political campaigns to corporate boards to entrepreneurship, and their success is showing. Statistics show that when women lead countries, those countries are less apt to go to war. There is also a positive correlation between the number of women on corporate boards and greater profits. Women entrepreneurs have also been shown to generate higher revenues and create more jobs than male entrepreneurs. In She Is Me, veteran journalist Lori Sokol, PhD, introduces readers to thirty-five women hailing from all walks of life who have successfully utilized qualities like compassion, empathy, introspection, and solidarity to create change and transform lives. Through interviews with women including Gloria Steinem, Billie Jean King, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Leymah Gbowee, readers will come to understand how these traits, which have long been considered soft and weak in our patriarchal culture, are actually proving more effective in transforming lives, securing our planet, and saving the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781631527159
Publisher: She Writes Press
Publication date: 08/11/2020
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Lori Sokol, PhD, is a veteran journalist with over thirty years of experience. Her articles have appeared in the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, and on Slate.com. She was recently interviewed on the Wall Street Journal’s podcast and by Forbes.com. She currently serves as the executive director and editor-in-chief of Women’s eNews, an award-winning, non-profit news organization that reports on the most crucial issues impacting women and girls around the world. Dr. Sokol has also spoken internationally at a number of women’s empowerment summits and conferences in the United States and Asia. She is coauthor of The Agile Workplace and Workforce: Flex-Primer for the New Future of Work (Bonnier Corp., 2011). She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Foreword IX

Five who gave rise to this book:

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York 3

Amy Ferris 8

Leymah Gbowee 17

Billie Jean King 24

Gloria Steinem 30

Twenty-five who amplified this book:

Taina Bien-Aimé 41

Kimberly Seals Allers 47

Loreen Arbus 52

Danielle Belton 60

Kristen Prata Browde 66

Blanche Wiesen Cook and Clare Coss 72

Alice Dear 78

Lauren Embrey 83

Karen Haycox 88

Kathy Hochul, NYS Lieutenant Governor 93

Jessica Houssian 100

Swanee Hunt 106

Edna Adan Ismail 112

Katja Iversen 119

Mariam Jalabi 126

Carol Jenkins 132

Lenora Lapidus 138

Dr. Marianne Legato 145

Suzanne Lerner 151

Dianne Dillon-Ridgley 160

S. Mona Sinha 166

Linda Stein 175

Marcy Syms 181

Cheryl Wills 187

Jamia Wilson 193

Epilogue 199

Author Biography 203

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