About The She League

Our Why

The She League is a women of color-led nonprofit organization committed to creating access, exposure, and opportunity for underserved communities. Through leadership development, youth mentorship, and holistic community support, we empower individuals to grow, lead, excel, inspire, and thrive. Grounded in purpose and driven by impact, we exist to build a more equitable future – one where every voice is valued, every path is possible, and every community has the tools to rise.

Women in Corporate

In 2020, women of color represented 18% of entry-level positions in the workplace. Few advanced to leadership positions: managers (12%), senior managers/directors (9%), VPs (6%), SVPs (5%), and C-suite positions (3%). An often-cited statistic reveals that as a result of factors including, but not limited to, motherhood penalties, gender discrimination, and occupational segregation, women make 79 cents for every dollar men earn. However, Black women earn only 64 cents on the dollar, and Latinas earn a dismal 54 cents. Women of color continue to experience occupational and economic disadvantages that reflect the ways both race and gender affect their work experiences. Some of the barriers that women of color face include limited access to mentors, exclusion from elite networks, and the gender wage gap.

Today, we are still not seeing an improvement in numbers and more programs dedicated to developing women of color in the workplace are drastically decreasing and being attacked.

Women in Entrepreneurship

Women of color are a principal force behind one of the most important components of America’s current marketplace and our nation’s future economy: entrepreneurship. Although business capital has become more accessible to entrepreneurs through targeted capital-access programs such as microenterprise and venture-capital funds, women of color face extra challenges in obtaining this capital that other groups do not. Some research has found that women are more likely to be turned down for loans or receive loans with less favorable terms than their male counterparts.

Women in The She League

We are the underrepresented, under-invested, underemployed and underpaid; so let’s change that. Our goal is to increase representation by investing in women and connecting them with executive women of color who share the blueprint for success.