How can we hold ourselves accountable to feminist values and feminist communities as business people and as ventures? ==> This workshop meets TWICE. The first half of the workshop will be Mon, Feb 1 and the second half on Mon, Feb 8, at 2:00 pm ET for Toronto & New York // London 7 pm […]
Women’s Empowerment is broken. After over fifty years of working to get women in business into positions of numerical parity, it’s becoming clear that progress is slow. Too slow. In this talk, I explain the whole problem of “empowerment” as a strategy for gender equity. Even better, I propose THREE action steps! I’m excited to […]
On March 9 I’ll be speaking at the SheEO Global Summit, about Transforming to a Feminist Economy. This list, below, has some resources for participants and readers who want to learn more about feminism and business, the Feminist economy, and systems change Connect with these websites: Cvharquail.com LiisBeth.com FeministsAtWork.com FeministFounders.co (Sally Bingham’s directory of feminist […]
Feminists have created many successful businesses that demonstrated and promoted feminist values. These feminist businesses were innovative. Revolutionary. And largely forgotten.
Few people know that these businesses ever existed, and even fewer remember what they were about, what practices and strategies worked for them, and what led to their closures— or their longevity. Without knowing feminist businesses’ history, we can’t learn from their mistakes. Worse, we can’t build on their achievements.
Starting in February 2023, we will reconnect with the legacy of feminist business, and draw from their experiences some shared principles and guidance for current and future feminist businesses.
3 Classes, 6 weeks, to develop shared feminist business praxis.