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HERstory Month
Women’s History Month is a celebration of women’s contributions to history, culture, and society - long before their voices began to be heard across the nation. March is recognized nationally as Women’s History Month, so get ready because we’re about to celebrate some marvelous ladies.
Empowered Women, Empower Women
If they don’t give you a seat at the table,
bring a folding chair”
Shirley Chisholm
Giving Back with Quarterly Causes
For our first Quarterly Cause of 2022, and in celebration of Women’s History Month, we’ll be focused on supporting Charities/Organizations that support Women & Girls, globally. GumGum is also excited to continue doubling our impact, up to $3,000 USD. Join us and let’s raise some money for these incredible organizations doing the work!
The Origin of International
1908
40,000 works went on strike in large factories asking for equal rights for women.
On March 19, the first International Day of Working Women is celebrated, calling for the recognition of women in various fields.
1911
1909
On February 28, the Socialist Women`s Day was celebrated for the fisrt time in the United States after the declaration of the Socialist Party of the United States.
1857
Garment workers in New York City matched and picketed demanding improved working conditions, a ten hour day, and equal rights for women.
Women Who Changed The Game: Female Founded Companies
What she’s done: Whitney Wolfe Herd started her successful career in dating apps when she was a co-founder and vice president of marketing at Tinder. When she filed a lawsuit against her boss for sexual harassment, she was forced to leave the company. After Tinder, Herd decided to compete against her former employer and create a new dating app. With financial help from Badoo founder Andrey Andreev, Herd created Bumble, which allows women to make the first move after matching.
Today, Herd continues to be the CEO of Bumble, which is valued at $1 billion and has 35 million users.
Bumble
Whitney Wolfe Heard
In 2006, Anne Wojcicki launched 23andMe with the help of Linda Avey and Paul Cusenza. The company was designed to test the likelihood that you will get various diseases, including cancer and even motion sickness. At the time of its launch, the genetic testing kit cost $999. Two years, later Time magazine named it the Invention of the Year.
Now, the company has been valued at $2.5 billion and has had over 10 million customers.h them. You might not have realized it, but when you watch 30 Rock (a workplace comedy if there ever was one), you’re getting schooled in gender equality. And in scenes like this, Fey proved herself unafraid to explore issues of sexism in the workplace--with a touch so light and so sneaky, you almost don't notice how it cuts right to the bone.
23andMe
Anne Wojcicki
In 2007, Nichole Mustard was asked to join a project with Kenneth Lin and Ryan Graciano. Together, they came up with the idea to create a company where people could access their credit scores for free. In 2008, CreditKarma was officially launched, and two years later, the company had one million members. Today, Mustard is the chief revenue officer at CreditKarma, which is now worth $4 billion. The company has given free credit scores to over four billion members.
CreditKarma
Nichole Mustard
Devaki Raj is the CEO and Cofounder of CrowdAI. Prior to this, she completed her undergraduate and Masters in Statistics at the University of Oxford, and subsequently used her expertise at Google (Maps, Energy and [X] teams) to optimize renewable energy allocation in sub-Saharan Africa. She noticed that even with the power of Google Maps, there was a significant deficit in high-resolution on-the-ground information, such as locations of homes, villages, and farms in rural areas. This gap in knowledge prompted her to start CrowdAI in 2016, which was picked up by Y-Combinator and selected by TechCrunch as one of their top 8 companies to watch, Forbes' Top 25 Machine Learning Companies, Nvidia Deep Learning Inception Awards Finalist, and Forbes' 30 Under 30 and Inc Magazine’s 30 companies under 30.
CrowdAI
Devaki Raj
WOMEN CHANGING THE WORLD
First black woman to paint an
official First Lady portrait
Amy Sherald
First Asian-American woman to write
a play produced on Broadway
Young Jean Lee
Shaking up a business that has been around as long as the film industry may seem like an intimidating thing to do, but filmmaker Ava DuVernay is doing it. With her powerful projects that focus on fighting for justice (like her feature film Selma), she is doing more than just entertaining, she is educating. In an interview with Smithsonian Magazine DuVernay shed some light on the way she works, and why it works: “I try to be a shapeshifter and do a lot of things. A: because I can. B: because the traditional walls collapsed so there’s more flexibility, and C: because you can’t hit a moving target.” Her documentary 13th is one of the documentary films about race everyone should see.
Ava DuVernay
I raise up my voice - not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard…We cannot succeed when half of us are held back.
Malala Yousafzai
“The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you’re very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.”
Serena Williams
women`s day
129 WORKERS DIED
The un set march 8 to recognize the struggle of women.
1975
(Inspired by Time’s FIRSTS feature)
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irst black woman to win an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
Lena Waithe
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First Somali-American Muslim person to become a legislator and, as of November 2018, the first Somali American elected to the U.S. Congress.
Ilhan Omar
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First Latina CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
Geisha Williams
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Sworn in as the first openly transgender state senator. Upon taking office, Delaware state senator Sarah McBride became the highest-ranking transgender elected official in the US.
Sarah McBride
The NFL's first-ever female referee to officiate a Super Bowl. Sarah is the first full-time female referee in the NFL's 100-year history. She was also the first woman to referee at an NFL playoff game in 2019, and the first woman to work a major college football game.
Sarah Thomas
The first Asian woman to win a Golden Globe for best director. Chloe won the best director award for "Nomadland”.
Chloe Zhao
First Indian-American woman to be elected governor.
Lena Waithe
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First woman to create three hit shows with more than 100 episodes each.
Shonda Rhimes
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Celebrate & Learn with us
What to Watch
What To Read
What to Listen
Inventing Anna
American Crime Story: Impeachment
Unbelievable
Promising Young Women
The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window
WandaVision
Glow
Pose
Fleabag
Broad City
Watchmen
Never Have I Ever
Golden Girls
In Treatment
Pachinko
Carefree Black Girls
Zeba Blay
We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The People We Keep
Allison Larkin
Ghosts
Dolly Alderton
Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies
Tara Schuster
'My Own Words'
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin
Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin
Shaped a Nation
We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy
Shapes Women’s Lives
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
Life, I Swear: Stories, insights, and reflections from Black women
Call Your Girlfriend: Newsworthy discussions with a feminist perspective between BFFs
Professional Troublemaker: Discover how you can rock the boat, take action and learn how to “get into good trouble.”
Podcasts by Women for Women
Women’s History Month Playlist
Female Grammy Nominees of 2021
The Broad Experience: Thoughtful discussions about women in the workplace
Hey, Girl: Candid storytelling from phenomenal women
Anna Malaika Tubbs
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide
Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever
Speaking Truth to Power
Anita Hill
Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir
Ashley C. Ford
Agenda
WGG Inspiration
Session #1
March 3rd
March 8th
March 9th
March 16th
Leadership Bites Series: Irish Bread Making w/ CMO Erin McCallion
March 14th
WGG Tee and/or Pink Tee Raffle (Open to All)
How to break down barriers and not accept limits | Candace Parker
International Women’s Day Keynote Speaker: #IAmRemarkable with Jessalin Lam & Senna Bayasgalan
11am PT / 2pm ET
Navigating Loss Breathwork Workshop (60 minutes) with Fatima Farmer
3pm PT / 6pm ET
March 17th
WGG Inspiration Session #2 - Inspiring the next generation of female engineers | Debbie Sterling (Japan Edition)
11am JST
Jessica O. Matthews has never been one to shy away from ambitious goals. She’s only 33, but the CEO and founder of Uncharted has been trying to bridge the worlds of infrastructure and sustainability since she was 19. First, she built a company around soccer balls and jump ropes that produce kinetic energy you can use. Then she set her sights on building energy-generating equipment for cities. If people could jump rope to power their cellphones, why couldn’t cars power streetlights? But as she pitched city officials to buy into her energy-generating tech, they turned her onto an even bigger problem that needed solving. Cities have an “information supply-chain issue,” says Matthews. “At the last mile in a community, everything is interrelated.” And she’s not being philosophical. Parking meters might operate via Bluetooth while security cameras or stoplights may run on the municipal Wi-Fi. When one system can’t communicate in real time with another, that lag can lead to inefficiencies and downtime. Uncharted’s platform offers to translate those systems. It also supplies a mesh network of sensors to collect data and pools it in one place, creating interoperability and contextual insights for city managers and staff. The company just completed its first pilot in the city of Poughkeepsie, New York. Next stop, Everytown, USA.
Uncharted
Jessica O. Matthews
When Jaclyn Fu and her co-founder Lia Winograd launched Pepper, a bra company for small-chested women, on Kickstarter in 2016, they knew they had a winning idea. “Our goal was $10,000,” Fu says. “We had about 1,000 people on the waitlist before we even launched the Kickstarter.” They met their goal in the first 10 hours. Within 13 days, they had raised $50,000. They officially launched the company in 2018. The Denver-based startup found its audience quickly: It grew 400 percent from 2019 to 2020. Fu thinks the pandemic has helped their growth because people’s shopping habits have shifted so dramatically and everyone wants comfy clothes. But they also at one point had a captive audience for their YouTube and social media ad campaigns. "Everyone was home, scrolling through Instagram,” Fu says. Last year, as Black Lives Matter protests raged across the country, they launched a Startup Grant for Black Women—a $5,000 award to a Black woman founder—and they’re making it an annual commitment. This year, for Pride Month, they donated $10,000 to For the Gworls to support Black trans people. They also put trans women front and center on their website—the Pepper homepage featured trans models and their Instagram was full of first-person accounts by trans women. And, like small-chested cis women, trans women are excited about the bras—which are sexy, comfortable, and for cup sizes AA to B only. This year, in addition to new fall colors, they’ll be launching their first strapless bra and a mesh underwear collection.
Pepper
Jaclyn Fu
March 24th
WGG Inspiration Session #3 - How moms shape the world | Anna Malaika Tubbs
10am PT / 1pm ET
