“Queen Elizabeth II was a powerful and history-making symbol of women’s leadership for not only women and girls in her own country but around the world,” said Lorraine Hariton, CEO of Catalyst, a non-profit focused women’s advancement in the workplace.
Queen Elizabeth II was a symbol of constancy for Britain in her seven-decade reign, according to the tributes and condolences pouring out Thursday in the wake of her death at age 96.
Queen Elizabeth II “was respected and admired not only by her own people but far beyond our family of nations,” according to a statement from May. The world has changed since the live broadcast of the queen’s coronation in 1953, Hariton noted. “When she became queen in the 1950s, women were not in positions of power, and now the United Kingdom has seen three women serve as prime minister. We know that seeing women in positions of power can change the idea of what is possible for all of us.”
Gaps between male and female pay and career opportunities may have narrowed during recent decades, but they persist — and they’ve even been threatened to widen because of the pandemic.
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