Beyonce IS #Flawless

Incase you’ve been living under a rock for the past month, or are just unfamiliar with pop culture, Beyonce pulled an insanely awesome move last month and dropped an entire album (complete with oh ya know 17 music videos!) on iTunes.  The catch- no one knew about it until the day it was released.

(Photo grabbed from Beyonce’s Insta)

Amazing move.

Her music, her business savvy-ness, her incredibly handsome and talented husband who adores her, her beautiful daughter, her class, her style- are all reason enough to admire Beyonce Knowles-Carter.  But what I love most about her? Her fight for TRUE gender equality for women.

Gender equality for women, especially in business, is something I’ve been hearing a lot about recently. From some pretty awesome women I might add.

Arianna Huffington’s speech at Inbound 2013 was the first eye-opener that got me thinking about gender equality in the workplace.

Then, a few months later, I heard Cheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, speak at Dreamforce.  (More to come on this later.)

Now, I’m seeing more and more celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence, speak up about the issues with gender in our society.

Just yesterday I stumbled across this quote from Beyonce in the Shiver Report:

“We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn’t a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change. Men have to demand that their wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters earn more—commensurate with their qualifications and not their gender. Equality will be achieved when men and women are granted equal pay and equal respect.” 

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On that same web page comes another statistic I’d like to quote: “IF WOMEN RECEIVED PAY EQUAL TO THEIR MALE COUNTERPARTS, THE U.S. ECONOMY WOULD PRODUCE $447.6 BILLION IN ADDITIONAL INCOME.”

I also believe that in order to achieve gender equality we women need to have more confidence. To truly believe that we are just as deserving to the pay and the positions that men hold in business.

New motto for 2014, ladies?

“I woke up like this
We flawless, ladies tell ’em”

#flawless