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Did you know that Courteney Cox was the first person to say “period” on American television in a 1985 ad for @tampax?

Menstruation is part of life for more than half the world’s population, and 800 million people menstruate daily – many of whom are without safe and sanitary facilities and menstrual products. It’s time to remove any shame or stigma around #menstruation. Thank you, Courteney for blazing the trail!
Let’s normalize career breaks once and for all! 👏

Did you know that @linkedin has a feature that allows users to reference a break in their career? The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Current Population Survey of the Census Bureau report that there are roughly 3.4 million educated, working-age parents who are on a career break for childcare reasons – that includes 2.9 million women.

No matter the reason, be it childcare, health issues, family logistics, or personal reasons (burnout, anyone?), excluding candidates with a gap in their resume leaves an entire pool of talent untapped – many of whom are women.

👉 Kenny Rose via LinkedIn

#workplaceculture #careerbreak #resume
Appearing in over sixty movies throughout her career, Anna May Wong was the first Chinese American Hollywood star.

Wong rose to stardom in a time when Chinese Americans were unjustly perceived as foreigners in American society. Her cinematic work and public persona were pivotal in beginning to shatter those stereotypes. Wong persevered, proudly showcasing her identity as Chinese-American, all while challenging discriminatory laws that hindered Chinese immigration and citizenship in the U.S. during the 1920s.

Join us in celebrating #AAPIHeritageMonth, honoring Anna May Wong who fearlessly blazed a trail through the golden age of Hollywood. Wong’s career undoubtedly opened doors for generations of actors to come!

#AnnaMayWong #AAPI
We don’t stop training our bodies once we get fit, so why would we stop training our minds once we’re in shape mentally and emotionally? Don’t forget to schedule a session with your mental trainer too! 🏋️‍♀️🧠

 #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #mentalhealth
According to Taylor, you might as well be you—and do you—no matter what.

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Meet the Invincibles, an under 12 girls’ football team in Bournemouth, UK who simply can’t be beat—including by the boys’ teams. They finished top of their league with 18 wins, 4 draws, and zero defeats, so they went on to play the boys.

…And they beat all 11 teams in the boys’ league, scoring 61 goals and conceding only 11. But they didn’t enter the boys’ league easily. The team’s manager, Toby Green, had some convincing to do and knew they were good enough to play with the boys—and he was right. 💥
French #Olympian, Surya Bonaly, may be known for shocking the judges with the banned backflip during the 1998 Nagano #Olympics, but she was a daring athlete even before that. She pushed herself time and time again, and almost became the first women’s figure skater to complete a quadruple jump at an international competition. Now, it’s a move that many women compete to nail, perhaps due to Bonaly’s talent and grit that cemented true athleticism in women’s figure skating.

“I don’t know why it took so long for women figure skaters to compete with quadruple jumps. For years everybody tried to keep the ladies pretty and not look like athletes. The mentality was that men could do quadruple jumps and look like a warrior or big hero, and the girls should stay pretty like princesses,” said Bonaly.
Non-compete agreements will soon be a thing of the past as the Federal Trade Commission recently voted to ban them nationwide. They currently affect 1 in 5 Americans, somewhat dictating how freely one can switch roles. And beyond allowing Americans the chance to work where they want, when they want, it could potentially boost wages by $488 billion in the next 10 years and promote fair competition.

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan has said noncompete agreements stop workers from switching jobs, even when they could earn more money or have better working conditions. “We heard from employees who, because of noncompetes, were stuck in abusive workplaces,” she said. These accounts, she said, “pointed to the basic reality of how robbing people of their economic liberty also robs them of all sorts of other freedoms.”

This is a step in the right direction!
Men aren’t the only ones with limited knowledge of #menopause—women report a lack of education as well, which is wildly concerning considering it’s something we’ll all experience at some point.

Studies show that women under 40 report a lack of education and their healthcare professionals lack adequate training on menopause. This obviously doesn’t properly prepare women for such a transformative phase of their life. And where there’s a lack of education, adequate support and healthcare also suffer.

Improving women’s healthcare and moving it forward to a place that actually improves our wellbeing starts and depends on education.
Despite the incontestable excellence of female athletes across the world, there is still a massive disparity in the media coverage they receive. Did you know that 85% of total television coverage focuses on men’s sports? And that’s only in the last 5 years as women’s sports coverage has tripled. Women’s leagues aren’t the focus of mainstream media, nor are they featured at local bars – Portland bar owner, Jenny Nguyen, is working to change that. 👏

The Sports Bra, a bar dedicated to women’s sports, was created to provide a social environment that fully devotes itself to women’s athletics. It was the first U.S. bar to do so but it certainly won’t be the last! Nguyen’s goal has always been to create “a sports bar where women’s sports are on, and the bathroom is always clean, and the menu has gluten-free options.”

Bottom line: in a world filled with sports bars, we are in desperate need of more sports bras! Now, with investment from Alexis Ohanian’s 776 Foundation, The Sports Bra plans to franchise, expoanding to other U.S. cities. “You look at all these sports now and there’s undeniable excellence coming from women and I’m just looking for all the ways we can reinforce and build and do it in a way that makes sense with the community,” said @alexisohanian. Let’s go 💥
“Who I am, right now, at this age, is what’s important. What is my best opportunity at 18, at 25, at 35, at 60?”

Age is just a number. What matters is this very moment right now. What are you going to do with it?

🎥: @priyankachopra
Did you know April is Jazz Appreciation Month? Viola Smith showed the world that women can play music just as well as men. As one of the first professional female drummers, she appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, in films and on Broadway, and was part of an all-women orchestra made up of her and all seven of her sisters. She and her sister Mildred later started their own band, “The Coquettes,” another all-female orchestra.

Her 1942 article for @downbeat_mag titled “Give Girl Musicians a Break!” shared, “In these times of national emergency, many of the star instrumentalists of the big name bands are being drafted. Instead of replacing them with what may be mediocre talent, why not let some of the great girl musicians of the country take their place?‘’ 👏

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