Women Empowerment on the Queen Latifah Show

Last week on the Queen Latifah Show, the ever evolving artist dedicated her entire panel to the empowerment of women.

The list of strong women in attendance included woman's rights activist Gloria Steinem, Arianna Huffington founder of The Huffington Post, Rita Moreno who played "Carmen" in West Side Story and Melissa Harris-Perry, host of the MHP Show.

The ladies tackled subjects like banning the word "bossy" with regards to women leaders; the "B" word was another touchy topic in which Mrs. Perry, broke down the Hip Hop structure of the word from a male point-of-view (Rapper Apache "Gangsta B") in comparison to the feminist point-of-view (Queen Latifah "U-N-I-T-Y"). Arianna Huffington stated that because the "workplace was designed by men", the "B" word's are commonly used when women exude any kind of assertiveness.

Another hot topic addressed was the fact that there are

"mean girls" out there in which Ms. Moreno, stated she felt the "media creates false competition" with regards to females. The founder of the Huffington Post quoted Madeleine Albright saying, "there's a special place in hell for women that don't support other women."

Adding to the empowerment of women Queen, decided to ask everyone in the audience to take a moment of silence for the girls that were stolen in Nigeria, while holding up signs that read: #BringBackOurGirls.

As Latifah closed out the show for the day, she brought on another strong woman leader named Carol, the founder of Carol's Daughter products. And she gave great advice to women entrepreneurs that although your ideas may be rejected over and over again - eventually "the no's are encouraging."

With that said Queen, picked a woman entrepreneur out of the audience to give one thousand dollars to as seed money to further her entrepreneurial ambitions. 

#WomenBusinessIsTheBest

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