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Invitation to our September 11th Mentor Walk in Ritan Park - Few Tickets Left

Mentor Walk of 2015 RSVP to the Beijing mentor walk on October 9th, Friday, the second last Mentor Walk of 2015

Invitation to our August 14th Mentor Walk in Ritan Park

Mentor Walk of 2015 RSVP to the Beijing mentor walk on September 11th, Friday.

Invitation to our July 10th Mentor Walk in Ritan Park

Mentor Walk of 2015 RSVP to the Beijing mentor walk on June 12th, Friday.

Invitation to our June 12th Mentor Walk in Ritan Park

Mentor Walk of 2015 RSVP to the Beijing mentor walk on June 12th, Friday.

Invitation to the May 8th Mentor Walk in Ritan Park

Mentor Walk of 2015 RSVP to the Beijing mentor walk kick-off on April 11th, Saturday.

Blackstone is extending its maternity leave benefits from 12 weeks at full pay to 16 weeks to encourage women to stay in the workforce.
Of 1,880 employees considered professionals at the firm, only 557 are women. Only seven of Blackstone’s 139 senior managing directors, a leadership role, are female. Yikes... let's raise the bar. Cheers to Blackstone for taking a step in the right direction.
http://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2015/04/22/blackstone-group-maternity-leave-policy-working-moms/?mod=e2fb

Why Blackstone Is Giving New Moms More Time Off The world’s largest private-equity firm says it wants to become a better place for working mothers.

Let's hear it for the men who are courageous and smart enough to make changes to benefit women! CEO Marc Benioff is methodically examining the pay of all 16,000 employees at his cloud-based software company to ensure pay equality.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/23/salesforce-pay-gap_n_7126892.html

Salesforce CEO Takes Radical Step To Pay Men And Women Equally "My job is to make sure that women are treated 100 percent equally at Salesforce in pay, opportunity and advancement."...

Loretta Lynch makes history as the first African-American female attorney general in U.S. history. Congrats Loretta! Epic win for women everywhere!

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/23/politics/loretta-lynch-attorney-general-vote/

Loretta Lynch poised to become first black woman attorney general - CNN.com After more than five months -- the longest wait for an attorney general nominee since the Reagan administration -- the Senate is poised to put Loretta Lynch in charge of the Justice Department.

Mentor Walks bring together established women leaders and emerging women leaders in our community to connect, learn, mentor and share experiences. As they walk, they discuss their professional and personal challenges, successes, aspirations, and lessons learned. All proceeds donated to Educating Girls of Rural China!

China has unexpectedly released five women activists on bail. These brave women spoke out about spousal abuse and public sexual harassment. They were taken into custody on the weekend of March 8th, International Women's Day. Way to speak up ladies! Awareness and activism is the first step in changing the psychology of a society. Violence against women needs to end, and we need more men and women in this discussion.

China to free three women activists on bail, fate of others unknown: lawyers BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have unexpectedly decided to release three women activists, two lawyers said on Monday, after an unprecedented vocal campaign against their detention by the West

Cheers Hong Mei! Way to be a trailblazer.

The adventures of Hong Mei, the first Chinese female to backpack across all of India | China Daily For many Chinese, India is a land of mystery, but one couple traveled China's southern neighbor and wrote a book about their experiences.