working girl

I’m passionate about empowering women and girls to do, be and feel what they want and that’s why I love these photos…

Recently Getty Images teamed up with LeanIn.org to launch a collection of images to “Change the Way We Look at Women.” If you’re not familiar with Lean In, it’s the title of the book and now organization, started by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, in an effort to, “put a ban on bossy” and encourage women to “lean in” and take ownership of their ambitions and lives – I wrote more about her in Get Bossy.

Getty Images is a giant database of images that are used in all kinds of print and online media like the stock photos you see on newspaper and magazine sites, advertisements, etc. In an effort to diversify their image stock, Getty partnered with Lean In and commissioned new images of women and girls in hopes that the photos will change the way women are viewed around the world by showcasing real women doing the vast array of things that we do!

All proceeds from the Getty Lean In project go toward Getty images grants for more photography on the empowerment of women and to the Leanin.org foundation.

What do you think? Do you feel empowered by these images?

(images via Getty Images: Tara Moore, Hero Images, Thomas Barwick, Tooga / Stone, Cavan Images, Harry Hook / Stone, Atherine Ledner / Photonica, Cavan Images / Iconica, Cavan Images / The Image Bank, LWA / Stone, R. Nelson / Flikr Select, Zero Creatives / Cultura)