As March comes to a close, we want to encourage all staff to continue to celebrate Women’s History Month throughout the year! Steered by the DEI Council and Collective, our Women’s Employee Resource Group, we have curated opportunities to watch, listen, learn, and to continue to participate as a community. The Civic Women’s ERG aims to amplify female voices, create safe spaces to connect, and build an inclusive and intersectional community here at Civic. The chief aim is to spark personal and professional development while fostering a sense of belonging amongst Civic employees who identify in any capacity as women or allies.

DO follow/support/utilize female operated social media accounts, small businesses, and Civic resources:

• Civic’s very own, Culture Porn @cultique.co
• Dr. Kim Hires, Leadership Coach @drkimhires
• TogetherRising @together.rising
• The Female Quotient @femalequotient
• The Newsette @the_newsette
• MakersWomen @makerswomen
• GirlGaze @girlgaze – dedicated to amplifying and ensuring female creators are hired in all fields
• CleverGirlFinance @clevergirlfinance – financial empowerment and independence for women
• SheShouldRun @sheshouldrun – bipartisan initiative working to increase the number of women in public office
• The Skimm @theskimm and the #ShowUsYourLeave movement: Did you know that the US is one of only a handful of countries in the world not to offer paid family leave at a national level? Civic proudly supports paid family leave and is proud to advocate for transparency, visibility, and long overdue change.
• Is the restaurant you are about to order from female owned? When searching for restaurants to order takeout from or dine in at, a quick Google search or sort filter can help you vote with your wallet to support women in the workforce.

DOWNLOAD content by and/or about women

Listen:

• Headspace app, a Civic provided free resource @headspace
• Women’s History Month Library collection of audio resources
• In Her Words Podcast by the team at Women in Entertainment
• Dr. Kim Hires’ Leadership Antidote podcast

Read (Non-Fiction and Memoirs):

• The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
• We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• No Mistakes: A Workbook for Imperfect Artists by Keiko Agena
• Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones
• Black Women Writers at Work by Claudia Tate
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Magical Language of Others by E.J. Koh
• Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes
• The 2000s Made Me Gay by Grace Perry
• Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology by Rana El Kaliouby
• Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir by Rebecca Solnit
• Books by Amanda Gorman

Watch (Documentaries):

• 9to5: The Story of a Movement
• Miss Representation
• Period. End Of Sentence
• He Named Me Malala
• Reversing Roe
• This Changes Everything
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

DONATE to and support female centric non-profit organizations

• SOLA The School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA) is Afghanistan’s first and only boarding school for girls.
• Women’s Refugee Commission Creating a better world for refugees.
• Ukraine Women’s Fund Changing the systems with women, for women.
• HappyPeriod Menstrual health education, advocacy, and access for people with periods.
• Project Opal Creating systems of change in the national response to domestic violence.
• Dress for Success Empowering women to achieve economic independence.
• Therapy for Black Girls is dedicated to encouraging the mental wellness of Black women and girls.
• Step Up guides girls, and those who identify with girlhood, to their success.
• The Loveland Foundation Therapy Fund provides financial assistance to Black women and girls seeking therapy nationally, to help break some of the barriers affecting access to treatment.