When they go to Liz Claiborne and find out that you have to study mathematics (and) you have to know computer technology, that changes what you think you'll take next year in school. |
You can't be what you can't see. In this country, you could never see a woman president. In this show, Geena Davis is playing a very rich role as president - and then you start to shape public perception that she can do it. |
You can't exhort people to change. You have to start where they are - and they're in front of their televisions. |
[All of this creative activity is fine with the Ms. Foundation.] That's the stuff that keeps it fresh, keeps it current, ... Companies have gotten smarter. |
[But there are other, more troubling developments as well. Earlier this year the president of Harvard got in trouble for suggesting that women didn't have the right stuff for science (he has since apologized). Recent stories about women at elite colleges who want to ditch it all to stay home with their kids have prompted a furious debate among professional women. There is a fear that all those glass ceilings have been broken for naught and younger women who grew up with working mothers struggling to have it all have decided that the struggle just isn't worth it. Whether younger women stick with that choice is, of course, still unclear. Their future undoubtedly holds many surprises, at work and at home, just as it did for the groundbreaking generation that preceded them.] There is no real balance of work and family in America, ... You integrate work and family and do the best you can. |
[Davis' TV show could add to that vital perception.] These things matter, ... Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World. |
[With such text communication systems as IP relay or e-mail, said Wilson,] misunderstandings happened quite frequently. ... I am happy. |