![]() ![]() #RedShoeTuesday- A cultural and social awareness campaign, establishes one day a week when we all go to work with red shoes and ties to signal our support for women’s career growth. Inspired by several ideas that had changed the lives of millions of people overnight, I created #RedShoeTuesday. Problems that seemed to have no solution. I searched for solutions that had attained immediate results on issues that had remained intractable for years. We needed a movement that could elicit a quantum leap in global consciousness. ![]() But I also knew that a book was not enough. I knew that part of my contribution to this change would be this book. For decades, and despite Diversity and Inclusion initiatives in large corporations and governmental organizations, the needle has refused to move. One of the main motivations to write the book was to help accelerate the representation of women at the highest levels of decision-making. Against the orders of the clergy in her church, Karen wears them for her Confirmation and her Communion eliciting negative feelings in the community.Įvent with Lola Ramona, one of Red Shoe Movement’s sponsors Red shoes as propellers of change: #RedShoeTuesday Unable to resist her vanity, she gets her adoptive mother (who can’t see the color) to buy her red shoes. One day Karen discovers a pair of red shoes peaking from under the dress of a princess and she’s overcome by the desire to own a pair. Two hundred years later, Hans Christian Andersen wrote “The Red Shoes.” This story talked about Karen, a poor girl who, after her mother’s death, is adopted by an elderly, blind woman. Naturally, red heels went out of fashion with the arrival of the French Revolution. This clearly separated the haves and the have-nots. At the time, red ink came from grinding a red insect imported from Mexico, which made it extremely expensive. In the XVII and XVIII centuries, under Louis XIV, only aristocratic men had the right to wear red heels. At the time, only aristocratic men were allowed to wear red heels.
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