I was reading Meghan Casserly's Forbes.com blog " Gender Quotas and Women's Conferences" and was struck by the insightful quote of Lisa Witter, Chief Strategy Officer at Fenton:

“At the same time we need to push women to do a better job at raising their hands. To say that they are good speakers, they are the experts and that they should be listened to.”

 

Diversity
NGOs
The Space Program
Genocide
Plastic bags in King's County
Human Rights
Food Security
Rwanda
Civil Eats
Atlanta
Charter Schools
New Mexico
career transition
Iraq
Public Transit in NYC
Fairy Tales
Youth
Corporations as agents of social change
Folklore
Carriage Horses

What's the connection between these random words/ideas/phrases? The OpEd Project and the 24 of us (23 women - three 85 Broads, including the instructor, OpEd Project Founder, Katie Orenstein, and 1 man) crammed into a conference room on a miserable, sleeting Saturday. Why had we chosen to...