EMPOWERED WOMEN, EMPOWER WOMEN!

Empowered Women Empower Women is a beautiful sentiment that highlights the importance of supporting and uplifting one another. When women come together, share their strength, knowledge, and encouragement, they create a powerful force for positive change. Whether it’s in the workplace, community, or personal relationships, empowering each other leads to progress and resilience.

So, let’s celebrate the achievements of women, amplify their voices, and continue to build a world where all women can thrive!

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Empowered Women Empower Women

by

Donna Sherrer-Gantt

Empowered Women Empower Women means to make someone stronger and more confident; especially in controlling their life and claiming their rights. The only person on earth that needs empowering more than Black women is the Black child. I believe that if we empower the Black woman, we in turn empower the Black child.      

The late, great Malcolm X once stated “The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. The most neglected person in America is the Black woman.”  Black women have faced discrimination and adversity from other races, and their own race due to the intersection of race and gender. Although this is the reality for Black women, we still manage to be one of the most educated demographics. Black women make up two-thirds of the Black college undergraduates. Between 2002 and 2008 the number of businesses owned by Black women rose by 19%, generating $29 billion in sales nationwide. This leap to leadership was twice as fast as all other firms.

There are studies of the lived experiences in the workplace of Black Women. Studies conclude that Black women are independent, competent, and demanding of respect which are all classic leadership traits. Black women lead with passion and have a strong grounding in their faith. Black women, albeit adversity, are making a difference in the lives of children and making organizations they lead better. Increasingly National Black Women organizations such as Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated and When Black Women Gather (both of which I am a member of) provide Black women with the support structure needed to support one another, collaborate, empower self, and empower one another. This allows us to take our control back, to be visible when others desire invisibility, we are successful when others fail through oppression. We must continue to lift as we climb.

I read an article written by Katherine Phillips: Black Women are Succeeding Rapidly. It inspired and reminded me of our ZETA principles of scholarship, service, sisterly love, and finer womanhood during Black History Month and as we look at the precepts that “elitism and socializing had overshadowed the real mission of sororities-to address and correct the problems of society, particularly, those plaguing the African American community.” Empowered Women Empower Women.