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  • 1 week ago | taketheleadwomen.com | Michele Weldon

    By Jessica Fabus ChengWhen my cousin tripped over an inaccessible sidewalk outside a medical office and prematurely became a wheelchair user, something in me shifted. As a young healthcare practitioner, I was used to advocating inside hospital walls, but witnessing that moment made me realize that systemic barriers outside those walls could be just as devastating. I knew then that speaking up wasn’t optional—it was necessary.

  • 1 week ago | taketheleadwomen.com | Michele Weldon

    Book sales in the U.S. are healthy, Statista reports in 2024,” Print book sales figures have improved and unit sales now consistently surpass 700 million per year.

  • 2 weeks ago | taketheleadwomen.com | Michele Weldon

    See more in Take The Lead on Lilly LedbetterBecoming involved in the political process can start early, according to a new study at the University of Notre Dame. Researchers “found that when women candidates run for office, the adolescent girls who see them are more likely to vote when they’re of age to do so,” The Story Exchange Reports. “The team involved in the study followed some 6,000 adolescent girls on their respective journeys to adulthood, beginning their research effort in 2002.

  • 3 weeks ago | taketheleadwomen.com | Michele Weldon

    When they see it, they can not only be it, they can succeed. A new global study of nearly one million people from adolescence to adulthood shows that teenage girls 13-16 more often become successful entrepreneurs by the time they are 35-40 than boys do. They also are more successful than girls that same age who are not seeing successful  entrepreneurs in these formative years.

  • 4 weeks ago | taketheleadwomen.com | Michele Weldon

    Corie Barry, CEO of Best Buy, and at the time of her appointment the youngest female CEO in the Fortune 100 Listings, tells Investopedia, “Have those uncomfortable moments. Because my strong personal belief is it is those moments that cause you to grow the most yourself, but that also differentiate you the most in your career.

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