Nominations Now Open for the Gender Equality Awards!
AUGUST 18, 2019
Our 4th Annual Gender Equality Awards is just around the corner on October 15th at Lagunitas Brewing Co!
This year the theme is "CITY PLANNING AROUND THE WORLD", and we need your help to identify leaders in this field whose work should be recognized!
Include the name of the person you are nominating and 250-word description of their efforts in championing improved city planning for increased safety to our Director of Events, Suvai Gunasekaran, at events@chicago.unwomen-usnc.org by Friday, August 23, 2019.
Now Live: Our Safe Cities Toolkit
JULY 18, 2019
The Chicago Chapter's primary point of focus for 2019 is Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces, a UN Women USA for UN Women Global Flagship Initiative that lays the groundwork for a sustainable approach to making cities safe and helps to build each programme to scale. To achieve results and sustainability, it engages women, men and boys working at the grass-roots level. We're encouraging our membership to take action through our specially curated toolkit of literature, information and more! We encourage you to explore and use these materials in support of your own organizational efforts---stay tuned for events and activities surrounding the elevation of this essential campaign!
Our Summer Reading List is Here!
JUNE 5, 2019
Looking for some inspiring reads over the summer? Keep the spirit of equity alive and broaden your perspective on all things social and civic leadership, feminism and much more with this incredible list of must-read books!
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Women Don't Ask by Linda Babcock
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
Buy the Change You Want to See by Jane Mosbacher Morris
You Can't Touch My Hair Deluxe: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez
Reviving Ophelia by Dr. Mary Pipher
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister
Rad American Women A-Z by Kate Schatz
Ain't I A Woman by Bell Hooks
—Eileen Soma