March is a Mood
Magical March. Signs of spring’s arrival are evidenced in the trees budding, birds chirping, and flower stems sprouting up through the ground.
We spring forward on March 8th with day light savings; longer days and late sunsets are imminent. Spring comes a few days earlier this year, officially March 19th. We’re coming out of hibernation with the season change. As we shed ourselves of layered clothes allow the transition to motivate us to shed some of the old things and ideals by springing into action with de-cluttering and getting your space and your life organized.
My proven de-cluttering system works for all areas:
Take inventory of your surroundings
Purge and merge
Categorize
Create a system
Celebrate Women
March 8th is also International Women’s Day. The theme this year is #eachforequal.
There is still wage bias based on gender, and although the gender pay gap has narrowed, there is still significant disparity on how men and women are paid, with even greater disparity among minority women.
Statistics state, women outnumber men with degrees; however, employers’ do not equally value those degrees earned by women. According to Gender Pay Gap Statistics, women with advanced degrees are under utilized and under compensated, (I can attest to this for sure!).
Considering the wage gap and the under-valued degrees, it’s not surprising the increase of women owned businesses. By and by, women are ditching the corporate world to become our own bosses. The US has 12.3 million women-owned businesses and 64% of those businesses are minority owned.
Strength in Numbers
Collaboration is the new competition and collectively, we can create a gender equal world.
The first International Women's Day occurred in 1911 and was supported by over one million people. Throughout herstory, women have collaboratively taken action to address inequality. From the the suffrage movement in the 1800s, the infamous garment workers strike in the early 1900s, to more recent global movements, women have been fighting for equality for centuries, and though we’ve made remarkable progress, we still have a ways to go.
Celebrate the women in your lives. Help her make herstory in her endeavors, because after all, “Equality is not a women's issue, it's a business issue.” (www.internationalwomensday.com)
Make herstory….the world needs more of that
XO ~ Gillian
