The Royal Bank of Canada has partnered with The Female Lead, a UK educational charity empowering women to take the lead in their lives at every age and every stage, to release a new book and film series.
Launched by data-science entrepreneur, Edwina Dunn OBE, the book is called We Rise By Lifting Others.
The book features 67 inspirational women, many world leaders, from diverse backgrounds and careers. The featured women include: Julia Gillard, Nadia Murad, Dame Sarah Storey, Sheryl Crow, Katie Piper, Judy Murray, Jodie Whittaker, Twiggy, Bernardine Evaristo OBE and Bobbi Brown and many more women.
The interviews were shaped by findings from The Female Lead’s Women At Work research report, conducted in collaboration with Cambridge University psychologist, Dr Terri Apter and published in March 2021.
Ms Dunn said: “I want to encourage ambition and self-belief in young women. I still believe that you can’t be what you can’t see. We need many more women to be seen and for their story to be told.”
In 2021, The Female Lead has been supported by companies including RBC, St James’s Place, Allen & Overy, Barclays, and, HSBC.
Released this week (08/10/21), and as with The Female Lead Volume I, the book will be donated to schools, colleges and universities in the UK and USA. Proceeds from book sales will fund The Female Lead’s educational foundation.