What Women Know About . . .Building an on-line community!
We are very excited about the way our book What Women Know is growing . . . we've reached over 500 women on our Facebook page, and we're getting over 1500 hits a week! What Women Know on Facebook is a fantastic page of sharing, wisdom and friendship between this community of women, of all ages, from all backgrounds and from many different countries. When we came up with the idea for this book, we had no idea where to start. We wanted to write a book of wisdom for women, and we knew that women have got a lot of wisdom that they share with one another. We wanted to find a way of getting at what was in women's heads, and collecting our shared experiences into a book . . . a book written by women for women. Women's wisdom is a quiet thing. The main institutions of wisdom are governed by men, and are articulated by men: women's wisdom is ignored by the institutions of society. The powerful social structures, religions, banking, governments, often ignore and even refuse to acknowledge women. But women are the creators of life. We bring up the next generation. We are the educators, the healers, and the managers of everyday finance, economies, and social enterprise.
What Women Know started off as an idea for a book – and our book will be published by Hachette in September 2010 as a beautiful gift for Christmas. But the most exciting thing that's come about as a result of this idea for a book of women's wisdom, is the online community that's grown out of our search for ideas. Through our Facebook page, we've tried to reach out to women everywhere to encourage them to join in our discussion, give us ideas, stories, knowledge and wisdom about money, love, friendship, work, health, spirituality, everything that matters in our lives. And the group is growing! It just goes to show, how important community development is, and how wonderfully creative women are in their own homes and offices, all over the world.