SHE IS ME
HOW WOMEN
WILL SAVE THE WORLD
By Lori Sokol, PhD
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SHE IS ME
HOW WOMEN
WILL SAVE THE WORLD
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SHE is ME is My Story, and YOURS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lori Sokol, PhD, currently serves as the executive director and editor-in-chief of Women’s eNews, a nonprofit news organization that reports on the most crucial issues impacting women and girls around the world. As an entrepreneur, scholar, journalist, and psychologist, Dr. Sokol’s career spans over thirty years of reporting, writing, researching, and publishing on such pertinent social issues as gender equality, the needs of working parents, environmental sustainability, and strides made by female professionals determined to smash the proverbial “glass ceiling.” As a doctoral candidate in Educational Psychology, Dr. Sokol’s research specifically focused on the media’s influence in crafting gender roles, further seeking to expose how stereotypes are created and maintained. She has published academic articles on psychology and the media, and served as an adjunct professor in the Psychology Departments of a number of colleges and universities.
Dr. Sokol has also served as a speaker at numerous global women’s conferences throughout the United States and Asia on topics related to gender equality and human rights. Her articles have been published in the Baltimore Sun, The Huffington Post, Ms. Magazine, and in Slate.com, and she has been profiled in a variety of major publications, most recently in The Wall Street Journal and on Forbes.com. She has also been interviewed on MSNBC, CNBC, WPIX, NY1 and Fox Five Live.
Her first book, Flex Primer for the New Future of Work, was published by Working Mother Media in 2011.
Follow Dr. Sokol on Twitter @LORISOKOLPHD
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BOOK QUOTES
SARAH FERGUSON
Duchess of York: Page 3
“You’re probably wondering why I chose to wear turquoise stockings with this suit.
It’s because I no longer care what other people think of me.”
AMY FERRIS
Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis: Page 8
“I want women to forgive themselves for all those old antiquated belief systems that were engraved in their lives by others who didn’t know any better.”
LEYMAH GBOWEE
Nobel Peace Prize recipient: Page 17
“When you get to a place where death is better than life, you have nothing to lose.”
BILLIE JEAN KING
champion athlete: Page 24
“At 29 years old, beating a fifty-five year old guy was no thrill for me, (but) I thought it would set us back fifty years if I didn’t win that match.”
GLORIA STEINEM
author and activist: Page 30
“We need to gather people together on the ground to get as many people to vote as possible…and the best way to do so is through bitable bites.”
TAINA BIEN-AIME
executive director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women: Page 41
“Women have always saved the world by fighting against evil. If we didn’t, the world would have become extinct a long, long time ago.”
KIMBERLY SEALS ALLERS
maternal and infant health advocate: Page 47
“Why in the land of American exceptionalism do we suck at breastfeeding?”
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