Fortune's Most Powerful Women 2018 Summit
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As a breath of fresh air amongst the harrowing and heartbreaking news that floods the media daily, Fortune released it’s annual list of America’s most powerful women at their 2018 Summit Event in Laguna Niguel, CA.
The company Fortune is a global leader regarding business journalism that circulates worldwide, and every year they release their top 10 most powerful women, in addition to closely tracking the up-and-coming working women who might one day make this honorable list.
As a woman myself, this event highlights how little I knew about ‘powerful’ women in leadership, and I was shocked over realizing that companies I’m familiar with were actually led and aided by inspirational women.
Corporations like YouTube, Facebook, Alphabet, General Dynamics, Oracle, Anthem, IBM, Fidelity Investments, and General Motors, have all had their leading ladies make the ranks amongst the most powerful, and to women worldwide this is eye-opening and empowering. If Marilyn Hewson can become the Chairman, President, and CEO of the American global aerospace, defense, and security company Lockheed Martin (and be deemed #1 on Fortune’s most powerful women), then so can any little girl finding themselves drawn to what might be considered as ‘masculine’ subjects such as math, science, and engineering- topics society tends to steer us away from by the age of 15, according to a study commissioned by Microsoft.
Taking away from this event, I urge every woman to not give up on her goals and dreams. There’s a saying my grandmother always preached, “Anything worth doing in life is worth doing horribly the first time”. Regardless of what you want to do in life, it is possible, and after Fortune’s annual reminder of this I say:
Go forward, go strong, and give them hell.
Strike Out,
Writer: Gillian McKendree
Editor: Hali Azpeitia
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