On Saturday, March 18, the Vice President of the US Kamala Harris and Glamour co-hosted a brunch to bag time Ladies’s History Month, at the Vice President’s field in Washington, D.C.
In entrance of an target audience of female trailblazers including Grammy award winner Megan Thee Stallion, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, actors Simone Ashley, Nicole Ari Parker and Phoebe Robinson, soccer star Ashlyn Harris, founder and CEO Emma Grede, clothier and Fifteen P.c Pledge founder Aurora James, author and activist Marley Dias, and more, Vice President Harris gave a passionate speech about females’s energy, economic empowerment, and the importance of passing paid lumber away.
Company including Megan Thee Stallion, Elaine Welteroth, Moonlyn Tsai, and more hearken to speeches at the Glamour and Vice President’s Ladies’s History Month celebration.
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The Vice President informed attendees, “Economic empowerment of females is set an investment at some point soon of our country. Whenever you happen to steal up the commercial field of females, you steal up the commercial field of families and communities, and all of society advantages.”
She singled out Glamour’s ongoing advocacy for paid lumber away, and in her opening remarks thanked Karina Garcia, one amongst the contemporary mothers featured in Glamour’s groundbreaking 28 Days paid lumber away mission, who welcomed the Vice President on stage. “Karina, I are looking out for to thank you, for the energy of your instruct, and the extra special females that you just stood here on stage with. The reviews that they’ve informed publicly in regards to the experiences that you just’ve every had are heartbreaking and sturdy, and it takes an out of this world quantity of braveness for you every to expose those reviews that are so deepest. But you’re why we originate what we originate.
Actor Simone Ashley with the Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff.
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“It’s been so amazing to partner with Glamour. What you and your team bag accomplished to emphasize the importance of enterprise empowerment, and in particular highlighting paid lumber away, is so significant.”
Company cheered as she persevered: “This diagram back of paid family lumber away is a nationwide diagram back when it comes to the energy of our economy as a total. And that’s why congress must watch Nancy Pelosi’s note and high-tail laws spherical paid family lumber away.”
The Vice President also applauded the attendees for being trailblazers and history makers across sectors, and she encouraged them to proceed lifting up and animated hundreds of females. She stated, “My mom had many sayings. She stated: ‘Kamala, you can very well be the predominant to originate many things. Guarantee you’re no longer the final.’ Allow us to proceed to defend that course and that door start, and design it bigger and wider for all those that are looking on us.”
Glamour’s Editor in Chief Samantha Barry welcomes guests to the tournament.
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The Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff took to the stage first to welcome guests to the tournament. He first thanked Glamour for doing “so powerful honest on the earth to uplift females, females’s voices, and their reviews, to design distinct they’re never passed over.”
He infamous what number of history makers were in the room, the administration’s dedication to advancing the rights of females and women, and his maintain passion for gender equity work, joking “I didn’t loyal start talking about gender equity when I met Kamala Harris.”
He then launched Glamour’s Editor in Chief and Americas Editorial Director Samantha Barry, who spoke movingly about Glamour’s storied history of combating for females’s equity, championing working females, and advocating for reproductive rights and paid lumber away.
“I’m honored and humbled to be celebrating Ladies’s History Month with you all at the Vice President’s field. March is a predominant month for us as we take fable of the unprecedented achievements of females. For me it’s a time the place we take stock of the previous, bag time the contemporary, and field the future.
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and visitor take a selfie at the Vice President’s field.
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“Glamour is 85 years ancient next year. We were one amongst the predominant magazines in the US to genuinely empower the working woman—our tagline in the 40’s used to be ‘for the girl with a job’. Attempting into the archives, these points of Glamour geared up females to take on jobs when the arena went to battle, they’d feminist writers who argued why females must lumber to school, long before it modified into the norm. And there had been so many inches and points dedicated to the combat for reproductive rights and the passing of Roe v Wade. And I surprise, as I counsel these words out loud, what those writers in the 50s, 60s and 70s would feel that we’re unruffled combating that combat in 2023.
“We tackled matters adore divorce, sexual liberation, motherhood and more in groundbreaking techniques. And the history of Glamour is indubitably woven into the history of females in The US.”
She also took time to bag time the total females in the target audience, and acknowledge many frail Glamour Ladies of the Yr honorees who were in attendance, including the Vice President, Megan Thee Stallion, the females of Heart of Dinner, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, Sherrilyn Ifill, and Ambassador Susan Rice. And encouraged the target audience to join Glamour in plotting for the future—spotlighting our most popular By Ladies initiative, and our paid lumber away advocacy.
Karina Garcia speaks, as Tiffany Mrotek, Abi Akintolayo, and Shukura Wells enhance her.
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Then she welcomed Karina Garcia, who used to be joined by Abi Akintolayo, Tiffany Mroktek and Shukura Wells from our paid lumber away mission, who shared her maintain account about her experiences postpartum, and why coming together to price Ladies’s History Month is so significant, before introducing the Vice President.
She informed the target audience: “Final year, on Would possibly possibly 12, I gave start to my first daughter Yohualli. Six days later, I used to be working. Four nights every week I labored from hour of darkness unless 8am, up when even my little one used to be sleeping. I had no paid lumber away. I had no alternative. I shouldn’t bag had to select between my little one, and my livelihood.
“Change is why we’re here this day. We’re here together this day to bag time the progress we now bag made, nonetheless also acknowledge how far there is to head.
Rapper Megan Thee Stallion at the Vice President’s field.
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“We also are here to bag time females who bag modified—and are altering—history. There are the form of lot of females here this day that I’m humbled to face alongside. None more so than our very maintain Vice President of the US. Attributable to our Vice President, I bag to expose my daughter that she too can plan for the very best office of the land.”
The tournament used to be hosted by the pool at the Vice President’s field, and the females in attendance were encouraged by the Vice President to network with the “extra special community of females who are here.” She informed the group: “Here’s a extra special community of folks, who are nationwide leaders, and global leaders, and I’m honored in an effort to welcome you all to this dwelling.”
