Important insights from Balance For Better Business Co-chair Carol Andrews on the launch of our new strategy & targets. We’re calling for firms to exceed the target of 40% female representation on boards & leadership teams and strive for ambitious change.

Don’t forget to vote today, folks!
Polling stations are open. Remember:

🗳️ Take photo ID - check what is allowed if you are not sure: gov.uk/howtovote
🗳️ Check your polling station - it may have changed: wheredoivote.co.uk
🗳️ Remind your friends, relatives,…

It's long been a question: could all of humanity actually live within the Doughnut? Thanks to Hauke Schlesier et al it's just been quantified for the 1st time. And the answer is probably yes - if we transform to economies of sufficiency. Read more here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This #InternationalWorkersDay , we're getting loud for labor movements around the globe because long-term change comes from collective action. If you support #EqualPay , #RacialJustice , & #EconomicJustice on #May1 & all year long, leave a ❤️. oxfamamerica.org/explore/storie…

Congrats to everyone shortlisted for the
InspiringWomenAwards 2024 👏🏿👏🏽👏🏻
Looking forward to it, 17 May - have you got your ticket?

Throwback 2023 #ZebraEyeView #inspiringwomenawards

#Beltane is the Gaelic May Day festival marking the beginning of #summer
'Passage” (2007) by German installation artist Cornelia Konrads #womensart

Today is Bealtaine, one of our four major Irish Celtic annual festivals along with Samhain, Imbolc and Lughnasa.
It signifies the return of the light.
Keep going 🤝

Just 34% of the candidates standing for local election in England on Thursday are women.

Data collected by Democracy Club shows no progress towards parity: in 2021 33% of the candidates were women.

Find out how Gov can support more women in politics: fawcettsociety.org.uk/News/new-data-…

I’m a massive fan of Doughnut Economics by the brilliant Kate Raworth. Great to therefore have Graeme Heyes 🌍🤘 sharing some of the key principles of #DoughnutEconomics at the BASIS 🌍 conference on #sustainable #sport .

Lots of great practical examples of the practical actions…

DEADLINE | The Female Founders grant competition offers a £175k prize pool, with 5 winners set to share the Techstart funding

Successful applicants will also gain access to valuable mentorship through the Women in Business mentoring programme

Apply by 5pm today >> tinyurl.com/yyd29nuf

Introducing our Reach Out to the Community #CharityShop in #Chorlton
We opened the shop in July 2017 to help fund our small independent charity, so all proceeds from the shop go towards supporting people experiencing #homelessness & #poverty in and around South #Manchester

A night out at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

The six amazing authors behind the six brilliant books shortlisted for the 2024 #WomensPrize for Fiction.

Find out more about them over on our website: bit.ly/2024WPFs

President Higgins' full 80 minute lecture, ‘Of the consciousness our times need in responding to interacting crises and the role of Universities as spaces of discourse in facilitating it’, delivered at The University of Manchester on Wednesday night, is available to watch youtube.com/watch?v=K76Iwg…

Thank you to Manchester Cathedral for hosting the #PeaceHeroines exhibition.
On 26th anniversary of the #GoodFridayAgreement you can learn about women’s leadership in the peace process.

On display for the month of April.

President Higgins this evening delivered the inaugural lecture of the John Kennedy Lecture Series at The University of Manchester. You can read the President’s lecture at president.ie/en/media-libra… or watch the full address and Q&A session at youtube.com/live/4MmJFNkCG…

That’s a wrap!!
Alliance MBS Women Leading in Business April Meeting hosted by Claire-Marie Boggiano and speaker Film maker Helen Tither @filmsnotwords Saffron Cherry Productions Pankhurst Centre 🐝
everyone needs a wingwoman like the camera shy & fab Emma. Who’s yours?

I can’t believe it’s been five years since my book, The Moment of Lift, was published! A lot has changed since then, but I’m more committed than ever to increasing women’s power and influence—here in the U.S. and around the world.