The world according to Tiffany...
Women earn the majority of college degrees, yet women make up only…
*19%
of U. S. Congress
*5%
of Fortune 500 CEOs
*10%
of Heads of State
So
now you are asking, why does this matter?
Because for so many young women and men like me, for a very long time those labels kind of haunted me, but like Condoleezza
Rice said, “You’d better have thick skin.” (and I do...!)
Your
next question is, what is in this for me? Well...when we really begin to
embrace different and varying perspectives we as a culture, as a society, and as a
human race will see immense forward progress.
From
the start of this race of life, our young people need to know and understand
that they can be valued, productive and contributing members of our society.
Strangely
enough sometimes I feel as if I owe the world and the people in it that made
things more difficult for me, because of labels, a huge thank you…
I
am looking forward to the day as described by Condoleezza Rice “when it’s not a
surprise that a woman has a powerful position.” This may not come in my
lifetime, but hopefully my daughter will be one of those women leaders that it
is not a shock to the worlds systems that she
is leading instead of him.
*WSJ:
“Sheryl Sandberg and Anna Maria Chavez on ‘Bossy,’ the Other B-word”
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