Book It: 11 Books By and For Women You'll Want To Read and Give Now
Winding down 2025 is a good time to pick up a book for yourself, friend, family member or colleague that they can enjoy as keen insight into their working life, an inspiration from historic and current women changing history, or perhaps an escape into times that have shaped destiny. All are works of excellent storytelling and truth.
And they each tie in well with the mission of Take The Lead, advocating for harnessing the power of your own story and truth and effectively using strategies and tools to achieve change.
The Power To Move From Shame to Science: Why I Built a Women’s Health Company By Daniella Levy
I occupy a space that, for years, has been considered taboo. For as long as I can remember, anything involving vaginal health came with this automatic sense of embarrassment, like you were doing something wrong by even bringing it up. Most of us learn that silence young, and it follows us well into adulthood.
Today is Giving Tuesday. Your inbox is full of requests. How does Take The Lead earn your donation?
By sticking with our mission of gender parity in leadership, power, and pay regardless of pressures to change or not use the words “woman," “diversity,” or “gender.”
By providing women with the leadership training, coaching, role models, thought leadership, and community they need to build strong careers and lives.
By understanding this truth written by Wendy Farrell, a new member of Take The Lead's 50 Women Can Lead the Change Arizona:
“[R]ights can be won and eroded. Progress can move forward and backward. The door [the suffragists] forced open is still one we must actively hold. So when I say, There is still work to be done...We are still living in a time when women’s voices, bodies, autonomy, leadership, safety, earning power, and influence are contested.”
Read Wendy’s full article “Suffs and Thoughts: When History Becomes Urgent”here.
And please make a generous Giving Tuesday contribution, knowing it will be matched 2X by others who share your belief in this cause.
Leading Out Loud LinkedIn Live
Thursday, December 4 at 12:00 PM MST
Don’t miss the next Leading Out Loud LinkedIn Live with Felicia Davis and the incredibly inspiring Take The Lead Power Tool Champion Dr. Winter Okoth in their conversation, “Power Tool #2: Define Your Own Terms (The Trailblazer).” Join us December 4 at noon MST/ 2pm EST when we can take your comments and questions in real time, or register to watch the replay. We’ll also post it on our LinkedIn business page.
"If your accounting and finance leadership teams don’t include women, you could be missing out on key advantages. Recent meta-analyses and research from Florida State University show that women leaders in finance consistently outperform men in most leadership competencies across a range of styles," Resourceful Finance Pro reports.
Those skills include: Taking initiative and driving results; Inspiring and motivating colleagues; Demonstrating ethical judgment; Developing strong relationships and well-rounded collaborations and more. "Only about 13 % of CFOs globally are women. Yet research shows that when women lead finance functions, their teams tend to deliver stronger outcomes."
Take The Lead prepares, develops, inspires, and propels all women of all diversities and intersectionalities to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025. Learn more at www.taketheleadwomen.com.
