Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Women'

Ugandan Women Entrepreneurs: Chicken Farming as the Next Revolution

by Deepa Krishnan -India- Journalist Deepa Krishnan traveled to Uganda as part of The Africa Reporting Project, an Initiative of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. –Ed. There is hardly a day when Chance Christine wakes up at leisure....

From Protective Shields to Leaders: Kyrgyzstani Women Claim First Female Presidency

by Anna Kirey - Kyrgyzstan- The small, mountainous, post-Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan rarely makes international news. When it does, the headlines are either related to the presence of US and Russian military bases or protests against the government. Years...

The Shame of Honor:
Global Activists Resurrect the Voices of the Dead

by Mandy Van Deven - India - Asma. Rukhsana. Zakia. Duaa. Fereshteh. Somayeh. Heshu. Samera. Amneh, Zahra. Semse. As an investigative journalist, Rana Husseini had no intention of shifting careers to become a human rights activist until she was given...

India’s Bikini Ban: Blaming Women for Rape

by Neeta Lal - India - The alleged rape of a nine-year-old Russian girl in January by two Indian men in Goa has ricocheted far beyond India’s resort state. Famous for its sun, sand and surf, since the assault this...

Anne Firth Murray’s Paradigm Found: Global Recovery for the 21st Century

by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP Just when it feels like things are completely falling apart, the slightest shift may occur and what at one time appeared to be falling apart is really falling together. After reading Anne Firth...

India’s Fastest Growing Crime: Rape and the Fight for Justice

by Priyanka Bhardwaj - India - Last year’s World Economic Forum study on gender parity gave India a dismal ranking: 114th out of 134 nations. Only 77% of women are literate and just 23% are employed. UNICEF’s 2009 State of...

The Hard Way Out: Divorce by Khula

by Suad Hamada - Bahrain - Fadhila is only allowed to go to the toilet after asking permission from her husband, she also puts up with his frequent demands for sex - even when she’s menstruating – but neither is...

A Brave New World: Women as Architects of Peace

by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor & Founder, The WIP This past weekend I was invited to keynote the Global Women’s Conference at CSU Fullerton. It was a great opportunity for me to reflect on the journey that we’ve been on...

Dancing The Divide: Interview with Pakistani Peacemaker Sheema Kermani

by Aditi Bhaduri - India - With her large flashing eyes rimmed with kohl and flowing hair, she is the quintessential dancer. Despite her chain-smoking, she is the picture of health and surprisingly agile. But then again, she has been...

If There is Something to Desire:
Interview with Russian Poet Vera Pavlova

by Anna Clark - USA - Why is the word yes so brief? It should be the longest, the hardest, so that you could not decide in an instant to say it, so that upon reflection you could stop in...

India's Women Find Empowerment in Exotic Dance

by Mandy Van Deven - India - Anyone who has ever sat through the frequent and painstakingly choreographed musical numbers in a Bollywood film can tell you that dance is an integral part of Indian culture. From Bhangra in the...

Half the Sky: Why You Must Join the Global Movement to Emancipate Women

by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP - USA - For me and my colleagues, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s new book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is exhilarating. Already in its 17th printing, Half...

Compassion, Courage and Hope: Creating Peace in the New Year

by Sarah McGowan Features & Photo Editor, The WIP I was called a prostitute, I was called a thief…I was called all sorts of names, but none of the newspapers came to call me defender of children’s rights. Very ironic...

20 Years Later, Germany Struggles with “Annexation, not unification”

by Vera von Kreutzbruck – Germany - They were East Germany’s dream couple in the eighties. But shortly after the fall of the Wall, which divided East and West Germany from 1961 until 1989, a scandal would taint the image...

Video Testimonials Document Politically Motivated Sexual Violence in Zimbabwe

by Abigail Wendle - USA - According to the Zimbabwe Rape Survivors Association, during last year’s highly contested presidential election an estimated 2,000 women and girls were the targets of politically-motivated sexual violence in Zimbabwe. State-sanctioned groups under President Robert...

Paint It Black: Women in Iraq Pay for Liberation

by Miaad A. Hassan - USA - For a long time she resisted, but four years ago Amal started to wear the hijab - her bright and shining youth draped in black. She is a 25-year-old Iraqi woman, and she...

Tapestries of Hope: Director Michealene Cristini Risley on the Tenacity and Optimism of Zimbabwe’s Rape Survivors

by Jessica Mosby - USA - The most striking element of the new documentary Tapestries of Hope is not the hell that the young rape survivors profiled have lived through, but their unbreakable spirit. The film is a vibrant international...

Gender Parity Report Finds Zambia’s Media Houses Lagging

by Delphine Zulu - Zambia - One of the key challenges facing Zambian female journalists is sexual harassment. “There are very few female Zambian journalists who have not experienced sexual harassment at the hands of male counterparts, [but] few [cases]...

Stripping Burlesque of Whiteness: Brown Girls Burlesque Take Center Stage

by Mandy Van Deven - India - Known for its bawdy sexual humor, over-the-top characters, and underlying social criticism, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales set the stage for the satirical theatrics which came to be known as burlesque. During its...

The “democratic evolution” of the Kurdish Question:
Turkish and Kurdish Mothers Campaign for Peace

by Dr. Emel Baştürk Akca - Turkey - “We mothers, whose hearts are burning, have come together so that there will be no more pain. We do not want our children to die.” These words belong to Nurten Ekinci, a...

Coming of Age in 1960s London: Interview with An Education's Director Lone Scherfig

by Jessica Mosby - USA - Post-war London is at its most enchanting in director Lone Scherfig’s new film, An Education. Nick Hornby’s clever screenplay, Scherfig’s apt direction and a talented star-studded cast that includes Emma Thompson, Alfred Molina, Peter...

Art Imitating Life: Berlin Through the Eyes of Käthe Kollwitz

by Brittany Shoot - Denmark - This year marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Celebrations for the historic occasion have been planned for months, and next week, Angela Merkel – Germany’s first and now second-term...

Leadership for a Woman's Nation

by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP California’s Women’s Conference, one of our nation’s largest annual forums for women, took place in the port city of Long Beach October 26th and 27th. Hosted by Governor Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria...

India’s Domestic Violence Campaign Asks Men to Be Part of the Solution

by Shreyasi Singh - India - Sometimes, just asking for a small cup of milk to brew your tea can bring domestic violence to a halt. Sounds too simple a solution? Well, it need not be as a recent public...

Ethiopia: The “Cradle of Civilization” Struggles for Survival

Photoessay by Tammy Law - Australia - One of the oldest countries in the world, Ethiopia is often referred to as “the cradle of civilization” – a country with a tumultuous past, present and future, and yet at the same...

Workplace ”Mobbing”: EU Integration Pushes Macedonian Labor Law to the Surface

by Natasha Dokovska - Macedonia - "I have 15 years seniority over the human resources officer and the highest level of education. Eight years ago, I was the head of the department, but in the last two years I have...

The Missing Context: From Women’s Issues to Societal Needs

by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP - USA - Recently, I had an insightful conversation with Linda Tarr-Whelan, author of Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World. As the founder of...

Parvati’s Burden: Scratching the Surface of Motherhood in India

by Mandy Van Deven - India - Unlike the abundance of exploration into the many dilemmas of motherhood by feminists in the West, in India the subject is so under-examined that it might as well not even exist. In fact,...

The International Violence Against Women Act: What Are We Waiting For?

by Patricia T. Morris, Ph.D. - USA - “After the abuse I suffered during the genocide in 1994, I was 16 years old, hopeless and traumatized,” says Marie Chantal Nimugire of Kigali, Rwanda. “I asked God, ‘Why was I left?’...

Marital Rape: Still an Underreported Crime in India

by Lesley D. Biswas - India - When Mili held her newborn baby girl in her arms she wept, not with joy but with a deep sense of pain and disgust. The child reminded her of the intense physical pain...

Decriminalizing Same Sex Relations in India: A Legal Beginning

by Aditi Bhaduri - India - A mini revolution is underway in India. On July 2nd the Delhi High Court read down a 149-year-old archaic law that criminalized same sex relations. It is a tiny victory for a battle that...

From Denmark with Love:
An Interview with Filmmaker Janus Metz

by Brittany Shoot - Denmark - Migrant communities in Denmark are a subject fraught with debate. As South Asian women increasingly immigrate to Scandinavia, stricter laws have been enacted to discourage the practice of convenience marriages. Rumors about abuse in...

Hit or Miss: Bangladesh’s Migrant Workers Seek Financial Security Abroad

by Stine Eckert - USA - When the Malaysian government expelled Bangladeshi migrant workers from the country in 1998 because it needed jobs for its own people, 32-year old Sheikh Rumana was one of them – after having worked under...

India’s Most Common Cancer is Preventable

by Mandy Van Deven - India - Taking the lives of 75,000 women each year, cervical cancer is the leading cause of death for women in India. This number accounts for a third of all cancers that affect women in...

Between Denmark and Thailand:
Two Films Explore Romantic Barter

by Brittany Shoot - Denmark - For the past two years, the buzz has grown increasingly louder about emerging Danish documentary filmmaker Janus Metz. In his complementary, almost sequential films, Love on Delivery (From Thailand to Thy) and Ticket to...

Transsexuals in the Middle East Await the Wave of Change

by Suad Hamada - Bahrain - Hell is what most Arabs think of when the word “transsexual” comes into any conversation since many mistake it with homosexuality, which is a sin in Islam. Most transsexuals prefer to remain anonymous since...

Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy

by Dr. Chelsea Mooser - USA - As a breast cancer researcher, I tend to be the go-to gal on all topics science. A few weeks ago a woman asked me if, considering the risks and the benefits, I would...

She Is the Matador: Blood Sport, Sexism, and Steadfast Ambition

by Jessica Mosby - USA - Maripaz Vega, currently the world’s only professional female matador, emerges triumphant from yet another death-defying bullfight. Her jeweled matador jacket and pants are covered with as much blood as sparkle while the crowd’s enthusiastic...

Looking into the Toilet: Potty Politics

by Mandy Van Deven - India - What do former U.S. Senator Larry Craig, women in Victorian England, and transgender activists have in common? Toilets!...

Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg: Director Aviva Kempner Documents the Life of TV Pioneer Gertrude Berg

by Jessica Mosby - USA - Gertrude Berg is the most famous cultural icon you’ve most likely never heard of. The Jewish-American writer and actress played her most famous character, Molly Goldberg, for over 25 years on radio and later...

Refugees and the Risk of Rape

by Elizabeth Stannard Gromisch - USA - “We need the NGOs to bring firewood in lorries [trucks]. If they do not, we have to keep going. We have heard and seen rape with our eyes here outside the camp. In...

India Says "I Do!"...to Divorce

by Shreyasi Singh - India - Divorce seems to have acquired a new label – Made in India! Data shows the country, known to be tradition-bound, conservative, and family-centric, is in the throes of a divorce spiral, with the number...

Girls with Autism Face the Challenges of Womanhood

by Emily Rose Herzlin - USA - Katie’s eyes twinkle mischievously from across the classroom, sparkling from behind her red hair falling over her face. I wave at her, and her gaze never totally meets mine. She raises her hand...

Brazil’s Homeless: Employed and on the Streets

by Melissa Costa - USA / Brazil - Regina sings to loud Brazilian country music while her skillful hands turn old Santa Claus hats into dresses and pieces of beverage cans into ornaments. Immersed in nostalgia, Regina relives her difficult...

Interview with Actress Parker Posey: “It’s not easy as a woman in this business to have integrity”

by Vera von Kreutzbruck - Germany - Unlike many actors in the film industry, Parker Posey’s aspiration is not to be an A-list Hollywood star. Her career path has circumvented mainstream filmmaking, which – in her own words – does...

Bahrain Offers Women No Protection from Spousal Rape

by Suad Hamada - Bahrain - Getting a divorce and custody of one’s children is very difficult in Bahrain, even in cases where a husband sexually attacks his wife. The issue was exposed to the public last year, when an...

Telling the Stories of Chinese-America:
Lisa See on Her New Novel, Shanghai Girls

by Anna Clark - USA - Meet Lisa See—if you aren't already among her millions of fans around the world. Born in Paris and raised in Los Angeles, where she lives today, See is the New York Times bestselling author...

Are Women Politicians in India Really Shattering the Glass Ceiling?

by Shreyasi Singh - India - The UNDP’s Human Development Indices 2008 gives India a rather embarrassing rank in its crucial Gender Development Index (116th out of 157 countries). But, for many of us tracking politics in India today, the...

Deepa’s Inferno: Domestic Violence and the Indian Diaspora in Heaven on Earth

by Mandy Van Deven - India - Couched in a story from Indian mythology, Deepa Mehta’s newest feature film, Heaven on Earth, blurs the line between reality and fantasy to provide a nuanced and authentic look at the struggles of...

Interview with Film Director Sally Potter: “Women are human beings in drag”

by Vera von Kreutzbruck - Germany - When I told British director and choreographer Sally Potter, 59, that I am from Argentina, she broke into song - “Don’t cry for me Argentina.” She has many fond memories from the time...

Africa Steps Up the Fight Against Maternal and Child Deaths

by Pilirani Semu-Banda - Malawi - The very survival of women and children in Africa may depend on the newly-launched Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA). According to latest estimates by the African Union (AU), over...

Cultural Challenges and Personal Sacrifices: Is the Journey Worth it for Hispanic Women in Hi-Tech?

by Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk - USA - Talking to my friend Nevada Flores* about her decision to leave her comfortable engineering job reminded me of one of our scary trips into the Cuyamaca Mountains outside San Diego. An avid hiker,...

Expression: A Newspaper in India Gives Women a Voice

by Mridu Khullar - India - The male vice-principal of a woman's college in Gwalior, India physically assaults fellow female faculty members and students by grabbing them and throwing them against walls. Kalpana Saxena, 37, publishes accounts of women affected...

Mama, Young and Beautiful: Celebrating Another Year of Ferocity

by Emily Rose Herzlin - USA - I’ve never been able to remember my parents’ ages. I wrote my dad a birthday poem one year that began: Dear Dad, don’t be blue, Just because you’re 53 or maybe 52. He...

Pushing the Pink Envelope: Redefining Women's Careers in Economic Crisis

by Jozefina Cutura and Hope Lozano-Bielat - USA - Kristina was at Google before the Internet giant became a household name. She worked as a training specialist for six years, taking pride in her job and enjoying Google’s famously easy-going...

Women in Media: The Value of Women’s Stories and Perspectives
An Online Community Chat with Carol Jenkins
and Patricia DeGennaro

by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP - USA - The WIP launched in 2007 on International Women’s Day, a commemorative day that marks the centuries-old struggle women have faced to participate in society on equal footing with men. The...

Empowerment for Peace: Afghanistan’s Unlikely Presidential Candidate

by Abigail Wendle - USA - When Hamid Karzai became Afghanistan’s first democratically elected president in 2004, the new government established a constitution that proclaimed equality for men and women, promising to enforce international standards of human rights. But throughout...

Sanctioned Violence Against Women: “fraud in the inducement”

by Nora W. Coffey - USA - What do you call it when someone deceptively lures another into danger? And if the deception involves telling a woman she’ll be “better than ever” to lure her into being drugged and strapped...

The Pink Chaddi Campaign: Landing a Pink Slap on the Face of Moral Policing in India

by Charukesi Ramadurai - India - India is now the land of The Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women. Who would have thought?...

Interview with Actress Tilda Swinton: "I am probably a woman"

by Vera von Kreutzbruck - Germany - Tilda Swinton is one of the most talented and captivating artists in current international cinema. She’s also in high demand. Tilda recently finished shooting a Jim Jarmusch film in Spain with Jim Murray...

Empowerment through Microfinance: Pro Mujer Gives Women in Peru “the confidence to keep moving forward”

by Jenna Mulhall-Brereton - USA - Elsa Gómez Mamani sits on the ruins of a stone wall on a cold but sunny morning in a field high on the Andean altiplano. We are in southern Peru, on the shores of...

Finally, a Glimmer of Light: More Women in Leadership Is Better for Business

by Linda Tarr-Whelan - USA - Here’s a news flash: in one week, two major economic articles in national newspapers raise the same point – we need more women in top leadership. Why? Because we need more balanced risk-taking, more...

Paying for the Bailout: How Unnecessary Medical Procedures Are Taxing the System

by Nora W. Coffey - USA - As we tighten our belts at home and abroad, we are all accountable for the burden of national debt we pass along to future generations. Local and international relief efforts for the poor...

American Foreign Policy and Women’s Global Health:
The WIP hosts an online chat with Americans for UNFPA

by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP - USA - Though the USA has typically been a leader in women's rights, the policies of the Bush Administration have taken us backwards in terms of women's issues, especially policies regarding the...

Burma’s Junta Targets Women in Human Rights Violations:
“I am taken away from my children”

by Cheery Zahau - Burma / India - Burma has become well known to the world, not with good reason but for its worsening human rights violations perpetrated by the military junta ruling the country. According to Amnesty International, the...

Dignity: Women in Mumbai Avoid Harassment on the 'Ladies Special' Commuter Train

by Mridu Khullar - India - 5:49 pm: The local Western Railway train pulls up at the Churchgate station in Mumbai. People on various platforms rush from one corner to the other, preoccupied with getting to their next destination on...

The Harsh Economics of the Global Water Crisis: “water is the oil of this century”

by Julie Chowdhury - Sweden - Every morning when you wake up and perform what you may perceive as insignificant chores, you might not realize that for 2.6 billion people around the world, your morning shower or just one flush...

Immigrant Survivors of Abuse Struggle within a Changing System

by Michelle Chen – USA – “I can scream, and nobody can hear me.” The walls had been closing in on Monica Bejar for years. She and her husband had both crossed over the U.S.-Mexico border for work, like countless...

Bosnian Businesswomen: Rebuilding a Nation

by Jozefina Cutura - USA - With Hillary Clinton’s recent campaign for the presidency in the United States at its end and women leaders taking charge in countries from Chile to Liberia, women’s advances in politics are making headlines. But...

A Current between Shores: On Aging

by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - Around the time little girls become preoccupied with their own reflections, I remember scanning the various jars of creams and tonics on my mother’s make-up table. I couldn’t yet read so well, but I...

Charred Yet Smoldering: Indian Women Stand Up to Their Husbands' Violence

by Pushpa Iyer - USA - Two weeks ago, late in the evening, Soma Bakshi, an educated, middle class young woman in Kolkata was set on fire by her husband and in-laws. This “incident” was preceded by a severe beating...

Abuse Survivors Face Systemic Struggles as Resources for Help Dwindle

by Michelle Chen - USA - Tanya McLeod’s marriage was hurting, but her husband thought he could make it up to her when he brought her a cute dog as a “peace offering.” The family stayed together and the dog...

My Unlikely Life Mission: Self-defense as Physical Literacy

by Ellen Snortland - USA - Midnight. Intensely urban downtown neighborhood in Los Angeles where the alleys reek of urine and garbage. Dark Craftsman house in the Carpenter-Gothic style. My home. I cross the threshold and meet an interrupted burglar...

A Current between Shores: On Children

by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - My sister doesn’t have any children. Neither does my female cousin, nor my sister-in-law. A close female friend of mine from college wants kids but her relationship woes and her career haven’t allowed for...

A Current between Shores: Womanhood and Marriage

by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - “Love one another but make not a bond of love: Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. . . Stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple...

A Current between Shores: Leaving Home

by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - They leave holding only their children's small hands in their own. A crumpled photo of a relative might find its place among their few possessions. Most often it is nothing more than a prospect—of...

A Current between Shores: On Education

by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - Before we had our own children, my husband and I began sponsoring a child in Senegal named Absa, a pretty little girl with clever eyes. • Absa in Senegal. Photo courtesy of World Vision...

The Great Indian Gender Divide: An Area of Darkness

by Neeta Lal - India - With a booming economy, an exponentially growing Information Technology (IT) sector and surging economic prosperity amongst its 300 million-plus middle class, India seems poised for superpower status. • Women in India are increasingly marginalized...

Marriage & Domestic Violence: A Fatal Combination in the Philippines, Yet Divorce Is Illegal

by Tess Raposas - Philippines - Maria was 16 when she first came to visit the Philippines from California and decided to remain here. Witty and talented, she became a popular movie icon. Then barely in her twenties, she plunged...

The Beauty Academy of Kabul

by Jessica Mosby - USA - When thinking of Afghanistan, it is difficult not to be overwhelmed by despair. Violence claimed over 6,000 lives in 2007 alone. The quality of life for women continues to decline as a result of...

Women Bear the Brunt of Climate Crisis: Their Stories from the UN Conference in Bali

by Imelda V. Abaño - Philippines - At the December UN conference in Bali, Indonesia, experts and concerned people alike discussed how poor women in developing countries bear the brunt of climate change in a wide range of ways. They...

In Ongoing War in Muslim Mindanao, Women Are Peacemakers and Breadwinners

by Imelda V. Abaño Philippines In times of war and during the peace process, women have played key roles, particularly in the protection of their rights and those of their children. • Cultures clash in the Philippines as US military...

Child Rights Activist Betty Makoni “Lights Up the Dark" for Abused and Disadvantaged Young Girls

by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - “The stories we listened to made us bleed inside, the genital wounds we later had to help nurse evoked us, the long distances we traveled every day and night to educate girls on their...

Germany’s Political Debate on the Role of the Family

by Vera von Kreutzbruck Germany • Hamburg boasts pint-sized anti-Nazi graffiti. Photograph by Photocapy. •The prominent German talk show host, Eva Herman, has been in the eye of the storm ever since she praised Hitler’s promotion of motherhood in a...

Boys Outnumber Girls in India at an Ever Growing Rate

by Neeta Lal - India - Kaveri Nambiar, 25, a Brahmin woman from Chennai in southern India, married a farmer’s son in Punjab, up north, a few months ago. But rather than glowing with the happiness of newly married bliss,...

Women in the Philippines Demand a Solution: Lack of Clean Water and Sanitation Facilities Threatens Their Children and Their Lives

by Imelda V. Abaño Philippines • Women like this 70-year old landfill dweller in Baguio City must find water wherever they can. Photograph by Imelda V. Abaño. •For Edna Dela Cruz, water is life, but it's also backbreaking work. As...

Systematic Abuses of Women and Children in Zimbabwe's Women's Prison Stirs Up a Hornet's Nest

by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - In 2003, gender activists from the Zimbabwe Women Writers group published a book entitled A Tragedy of Lives: Women in Prison in Zimbabwe. It revealed shocking human rights abuses in the country’s prison system....

Will Sex with a Virgin Cure HIV/AIDS? - Why Zambian Children Are Being Defiled: The Courts Try New Measures to Stop the Record Number of Cases

by Delphine Zulu - Zambia - • Zambian school children. Photograph by Jennifer Milner. •The number of children being defiled in Zambia has continued to increase dramatically because of a widespread belief that having sex with a virgin will cure...

Women Power in the Philippine Elections

by Imelda Abaño Philippines On May 14, 2007, as the Philippines is scheduled for national elections. For this year's general mid-term elections, 87,000 candidates are running for 17,000 national and local positions, which include all of the 250 seats in...

AIDS Crisis in Zambia Weighs Heavily on Women

by Delphine Zulu - Zambia - The prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Zambia among adults aged 15-49 is currently at 16%. For every infected man, three women are infected with the virus....

Burlesque is Back

by Laramie Glen - USA - Miss Delirium Tremens traipses on-stage. Her skin is white, her hair black, her lips red. Covered only by two scarlet feather fans, she begins a coy dance to music that is dedicated to the...

8th March – International Women's Day

by Viktorija Plavcak - Slovenia - Some thirty years ago, in a socialist system, we went out to the woods to pick the first snowdrops, to search highs and lows under the snow blanket covering the soft, mossy grounds. We...

To Do Better

by Katharine Daniels Founder and Executive Editor, The WIP USA Today is not only a celebration of International Women’s Day, but for us it is also a celebration of a great year of discovery, insight, growth, and development. The WIP...