by Stephenie Foster | Jul 24, 2012 | Readings, Women in Leadership
To me, Sally Ride was a hero, a trailblazer and an icon. She made history as the first American woman in space as well as the youngest American to do so. She literally reached for – and grasped – the stars. So much has been written about her career and life in the...
by Stephenie Foster | Jul 21, 2012 | Interviews
Last month, I wrote about the digital video conference that I did with the US Embassy in Tel Aviv and members of WePower (Women’s Electoral Power), an Israeli non-profit, non-partisan organization promoting women’s leadership and equality in Israel’s public and social...
by Stephenie Foster | Jul 21, 2012 | Women in Business, Women in Leadership, Women in Politics
I am always struck by how, despite our differences around the globe, there are so many similarities in the challenges we share as women and the potential solutions. Here’s a case in point. In May, I interviewed Ifat Zamir, the Executive Director of Israel’s...
by Stephenie Foster | Jul 18, 2012 | Women in Business, Women in Leadership
Sometimes change seems upon us and at the same time like slow molasses. There are now three women justices of the Supreme Court, and the current president of the American Bar Association is a woman. But this progress masks the work that the legal profession still...
by Stephenie Foster | Jul 15, 2012 | Women in the Middle East/North Africa
I love this story about the US Agency for International Development (USAID) helping rebuild a women’s radio station in Herat, so that women there can communicate better. And that kind of story is a reason that I will be leaving shortly for Kabul to work on a project...
