What an incredible month August has been for women POWERING UP!?on all fronts, from Olympic pedestals and C-suites to the NFL gridiron. ?Here are the highlights, each of which will have long-term impact.
USA women not only won the gold in the relay, they shattered the old world record.
Female athletes at the Olympics?? It gave me goosebumps to watch the legacy of Title IX ? 40 years after its 1972 passage ? unfold before our eyes. ?Led by America?s women ? who earned 58 medals ? 29 of them gold, compared to the American men?s 45 medals, 15 gold. ? For the first time in Olympic history, there were more female athletes competing than males and every single participating country had at least one woman on its team.
The London Olympics will long be remembered as the breakthrough year when women athletes began to show the world what they can do. ? As TIME magazine put it in their ?Wonder Women? coverage, ?London exposed a fallacy: that women?s sports are less gripping, less serious and less entertaining than men?s. ?The women have made glorious the Summer Olympics.?
The whistle and hat Shannon Eastin used for the historic game are headed for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
NFL?s First Female Referee?? Shannon Eastin broke the on-field gender barrier with class. ?Just as classy ? the San Diego Charger players and team president who recognized a historical moment when they saw when and welcomed her. ?The cap & whistle she used for the game are going in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Mayer is poised to shatter old images of how a CEO looks and lives!
Marissa Mayer Breaks the CEO Mold?? The former Google superstar, newly-chosen CEO of Yahoo and Mom-to-be is about to shatter every stereotype of how a cutting-edge, visionary business leader looks, acts and lives her life. ?I?m counting on her to pave the way for a whole new generation of female leaders who have every intention of ?having it all? ? as generations of men have expected for centuries.
If you are as fascinated by these developments as I am, here are two interviews worth your time.
- The Mayer blockbuster announcement and Anne Marie Slaughter?s controversial Atlantic Magazine article, triggered a compelling conversation on Boston Public Radio (WGBH) on what?s next for women striving for leadership roles.
- And WJR Radio?talked with me about the long-term impact these historic breakthroughs will have.
What more evidence do you need that we are moving into exciting, unchartered territory? Onward!
Anne Doyle?is an Auburn Hills, Michigan City?Councilwoman, a keynote speaker and the author of?POWERING UP! How America?s Women Achievers Become?Leaders.?She has been tested in multiple-leadership laboratories, including men?s sports locker rooms, the auto industry, political office and parenting (which she insists is ?the toughest!).? Signed copies of her book are available at:?www.annedoylestrategies.com;facebook.com/poweringupwomenbook.
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