This Ladies’s Historical past Month, ActiveCampaign is worked up to have a good time our female-identifying staff and the courageous ladies all through historical past who inform our tales. The struggle for gender equality continues to be ongoing right now, and we’re grateful to all the ladies who’ve stood up for his or her rights. These ladies, previous and current, who proceed to champion various tales, each informed and untold.
Ladies have all the time been a groundbreaking power in media—breaking information and sharing thought-provoking perception on what it means to establish as a lady on this world. We have a good time ladies corresponding to Ida B. Wells, who used her abilities as an investigative journalist and civil rights chief to show the injustices occurring within the American South, finally changing into a co-founder of the NAACP.
We have a good time ladies like Gloria Steinem—whose 1962 Esquire article on feminine contraception opened the world’s eyes to the robust selections ladies in America are generally pressured to make relating to profession and household. Steinem continues to make use of her storytelling abilities to push for gender equality even within the modern-day.
We have a good time ladies like Michelle Zauner—lead singer of the band Japanese Breakfast and the creator of the New York Occasions best-seller “Crying in H Mart,” which chronicles Zauner’s sophisticated relationship along with her mom after she handed from most cancers. Ladies include multitudes and layers, and our tales need to be informed.
As well as, we need to acknowledge that marginalized voices are sometimes erased. We acknowledge that our neighborhood consists of all ladies—whether or not lesbian, bisexual, trans, intersex, or queer. We will even proceed to make our areas accessible and welcoming to ladies with disabilities and acknowledge tales from Black, Indigenous, Asian, and Latinx ladies who’re too typically silenced, minimized, and face compounded oppression within the types of sexism and racism.
This month at ActiveCampaign, the Ladies of AC ERG has a lineup of programming aimed to have a good time ladies’s historical past and empower our neighborhood to purpose excessive and shatter the glass ceiling. We’re inviting our neighborhood allies to study extra about unimaginable ladies from historical past throughout digital Jeopardy with hopes of sharing our pleasure and battle with the neighborhood at giant.
We even have an incredible panel that includes female-identifying leaders from inside ActiveCampaign to share their tales about how they bought to the place they’re right now and the place they proceed to develop. Lastly, now we have invited Alida Miranda-Wolff, creator, founder, and CEO of Ethos expertise, to facilitate a management workshop for our neighborhood and set our group as much as efficiently talk their objective and tales for years to return.
We invite you to hitch us in celebrating the ladies whose tales typically go untold. The ladies who dare to face up for themselves and communicate on what they imagine in. The ladies who proceed to guide us via the unknown to a brighter future.
Glad Ladies’s Historical past Month from ActiveCampaign!
