We all know these words: “To buckle your seatbelt, insert the metal buckle into the flap and pull. In the event of loss of cabin pressure, oxygen masks will drop down. Even though oxygen is flowing, the plastic bag will not inflate. If you are traveling with a child, fasten your own mask before tending to the child’s…” Fasten your own mask before tending to the child’s… It makes sense. If I were traveling with a small child and there were a need for oxygen, and I tried to fasten their mask......
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March 24, 2015
Collaborating at the UN: A Gender Equality Conversation
I am honored that I’ll be appearing at the United Nations on Wednesday, March 25, as a guest panelist for the second annual Power of Collaboration Global Summit. The event’s focus will be “Women, Technology and Social Innovation Creating the Future of Inclusive, Sustainable Economies.” For my part, I’ll be speaking on the “Women and Social Innovation: Disrupting Global Entrepreneurship” panel. Women are disrupting global entrepreneurship by doing well and doing good. Yet only 6% of venture capital goes to woman-founded companies, there are few female partners in VC firms, only 7%......
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July 24, 2014
How a Fashion Photo Inspired Hope in the Jewish and Muslim Communities
Meet sisters-in-law Mimi Hecht and Mushky Notik. Struggling to find clothes that were stylish but still as modest as Orthodox custom requires “they took matters into their own hands and set out to create the ultimate pieces they needed for their wardrobe” and founded a small clothing line Mimu Maxi in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. (Interestingly, they let their “com-MIMU-nity” of women help vote on designs – not exactly what one expects from traditionalists!) Now meet Summer Albarcha, a popular Muslim fashion blogger who goes by the name “Hipster Hijabis“. She promotes trendy......
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October 08, 2013
New Movie Wadjda Sparks Reflection on Gender Equality
In this week’s Week in Wisdom, our weekly round up of what we’re reading and watching, I shared the trailer for the film Wadjda, a compelling film – one of those films you wake up thinking about the next morning.? It evokes so many questions and feelings. How will we in the West deal with the Arab Muslim version of feminism, which will be very different from ours? (Do a search for Arab – Muslim feminism and you will get close to 3 million results.) Can Muslim feminists reclaim their religion and......
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Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg created an expected firestorm of national debate. As a “sort of feminist manifesto” (her words) about women in the workplace, lamenting the dearth of females in leadership positions and urging women to be more assertive in their professional ambitions, Lean In evoked a range of responses from praise of Sandberg as the new voice of feminism to questioning whether someone whose net worth numbers in the hundreds of millions and who Forbes ranks the tenth most powerful woman......
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