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She Leads Coalition
We are an international, multi-racial alliance of women with a mission to advocate for qualified women to run for office at all levels of government and multilateral organizations or become engaged in helping with a woman candidate’s campaign by sharing information, making connections, and encouraging engagement in national and international leadership opportunities.
Ensure Inclusive Voting
The voting/selection process must be transparent, with no unnecessary barriers. To help achieve this crucial part of our democratic process, we call on all member states to adopt an open, transparent, inclusive, and merit-based selection and voting processes.
Fill the Pipeline
Our partnership with the International Federation of Journalists, the largest global union federation is key for ensuring positive media engagement during women campaigns. We work at country and international levels with more than 600,000 media workers in 146 countries.
Reduce Polarization
We believe that building partnerships and respectful conversations can help decrease such tensions and that elevating more women in leadership positions and promoting gender-responsive media narrative will increase democratic legitimacy and simple justice.
She Leads is a coalition advocating and supporting women’s fair access to political spheres—as voters, candidates, elected officials and civil service members
Leadership does not have a future without women
Over the years, we have seen how women can deliver palpable change in leadership, across many sectors. In advocacy - from Nadia Murad to Malala. In law - from Amal Clooney to Helena Kennedy KC. In politics from to Nanci Pelosi to Jacinda Arden. In journalism - from Yalda Haikim to Alex Crawford. In academia - from Prof. Nazila Ghanea to Prof. Patricia Viseur Sellers. The list goes on. Despite these great examples of women in leadership, and some progress over the years, we are witnessing a stagnation, if not downward spiral - with women still being told, that they cannot have it all.
How to ensure the next World Bank president is its first woman leader
Like many of the multinational organizations created in the wake of the Second World War, The World Bank is caught in a relentless downdraft of public skepticism. This lack of credibility has many causes, but it starts with leadership systems that perpetuate biases entirely at odds with the values of societies that these bodies are supposed to serve.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the role of women. Our advocacy organization GWL Voices is about to publish the first comprehensive mapping of the gender of leaders in the world’s 33 most important international organizations, which are collectively known as the United Nations system.
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Testimonials
See what great influencers say about women in leadership
All that [feminism] is trying to do is [make sure] people are being treated equally and not discriminated against because of their gender. I love that a lot of young women are taking it up and carrying the banner that was left for us," the Orange Is the New Black actress said. "I love this neo-feminist idea — defining yourself as whoever, whatever you want to be today, and it can change tomorrow, and it can change the day after that.
I worry that the word patriarchy makes people's eyes glaze over with the assumption that it means 'Men are bad, and we need to change to a matriarchy,'' Fonda wrote. "But this is not about replacing one '-archy' with another, it's about transforming social and cultural norms and institutions so that power, violence, and greed are not the primary operating principles. It's not about moving from patriarchy to matriarchy, but from patriarchy to democracy. Feminism means real democracy.
Women lead the country economically, manage family budgets and are very visible in society, but they have been kept out of politics. Somalia is now ready for a female president.. It’s very dangerous to be a politician or candidate in Somalia,” said Dayib. ”I’ve been warned many times that I could be killed if I run as a candidate.
There is a global epidemic of violence against women — both within conflict zones and within societies at peace — and it is still treated as a lesser crime and lower priority," Jolie said. “We need policies for long-term security that are designed by women, focused on women, executed by women — not at the expense of men, or instead of men, but alongside and with men.
Any woman who has entered the political arena knows that the way women are treated is different from the way men are treated. Women are expected to conform to certain stereotypes, which is not the case for men. Women's political leadership is indispensable to achieving gender equality and genuine democracy... Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance
I grew up in a family of four girls. I’m the firstborn. But I had a very amazing family especially my father, who has always told us that there is nothing that a woman or a girl cannot do. So this has been my motto all my life and in whatever I did, by the way, I was the first woman to do this, the first woman to do that, so I was daring.
