Last June, Melinda French Gats and MacKenzie Scott launched the “Equality Can’t Wait Challenge, a contest to identify the best ideas for helping to expand women’s power and influence in the United States by 2030. One year later, the challenge is complete.
Rising to the top of the more-than 500 proposals submitted for consideration were: The Building Women’s Equality through Strengthening the Care Infrastructure coalition, the Changing the Face of Tech project from the Ada Developers Academy, Project Accelerate, led by Girls Inc., and The Future is Indigenous Womxn initiative from New Mexico Community Capital and Native Women Lead.
Girls Inc.’s Project Accelerate was one of the four"Equality Can't Wait" challenge winners. Through a network of 78 partners, Project Accelerate wants to lift 5,400 diverse women into positions of power and influence across the American economy, shifting the corporate landscape for generations.“The awardees are strong teams working on the front lines and from within communities to help women build power in their lives and careers,” MacKenzie Scott added in a statement of her own.
The diverse focus of the winning groups reflect the parameters of the Equality Can’t Wait Challenge, whichideas for creating real, measurable change for women in at least one of the following areas: wages and wealth, unpaid care, share of leadership roles, content creation , and public perception.
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