TEDxMarin - Jennifer Siebel Newsom - Re-envisioning Women as Leaders: How the Media Can Help
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Jennifer Siebel Newsom is an actress, filmmaker, spokesperson, and mother. She received her BA and MBA with honors from Stanford University. Jennifer worked in Africa, Latin America, and Europe on assignments with Conservation International, where she focused on providing micro-enterprise opportunities to women. She later moved to Los Angeles wh... Read more
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- -: TEDxMarin - Jennifer Siebel Newsom - Re-envisioning Women as Leaders: How the Media Can Help
June 1, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Jennifer Siebel Newsom is an actress, filmmaker, spokesperson, and mother. She received her BA and MBA with honors from Stanford University. Jennifer worked in Africa, Latin America, and Europe on assignments with Conservation International, where she focused on providing micro-enterprise opportu...
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- -: Race and Gender in the 2008 Election - Willie Brown
June 4, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/07/Annual_Lecture_on_Political_Trends_with_Willie_Brown Former San Francisco Mayor and influential Democrat Willie Brown discusses the prominence of race and gender as issues in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election. ------ The Former Mayor of San Franci...
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- -: What Can Women Candidates Learn from Hillary Clinton?
July 9, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/08/Kate_Moses_on_Mothers_Who_Think Kate Moses, co-founder of Salon.com's daily column Mothers Who Think, vents her frustration over the Hillary Clinton campaign. ------ In this novel Wintering, and in her work with Camille Peri on the national bestsel...
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- -: Sexism and the Media in the 2008 Primaries - Dee Dee Myers
July 29, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at:http://fora.tv/2008/06/09/The_Evolving_Role_of_Women_in_Politics Dee Dee Myers evaluates the fairness of media coverage on Hillary Clinton in comparison to presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. ----- For the first time in over 200 years, a woman serves as t...
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- -: Facebook COO: Working Moms Need Help from Working Dads
February 10, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/30/The_Gender_Agenda_Putting_Parity_into_Practice Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg reflects on her own experiences as a mother and a woman in the corporate world to call for social change in the work / home balance between men and women. "We all lose because...
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- -: Cleavage at Work? A New Dress Code for Professional Women
February 17, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/09/Dr_Audrey_Nelson_Code_Switching Communication consultant Audrey Nelson chastises the working women she sees wearing "postage-stamp sized skirts" and baring cleavage in professional environments. "Nothing will erode your credibility quicker," she warns...
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- -: Free Barbie! Eve Ensler Imagines Liberating the Iconic Doll
February 27, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/16/Eve_Ensler_I_Am_an_Emotional_Creature Author Eve Ensler discusses the origin of the "Free Barbie" story from her latest book I Am an Emotional Creature. Ensler says the story of Barbie, from manufacturing plant to toy box, is a metaphor for everything...
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- -: Eve Ensler Urges All to Channel Their "Girl Cells"
March 12, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/16/Eve_Ensler_I_Am_an_Emotional_Creature Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, calls for both men and women to embrace their "girl cells" and challenges society to empower girls of all ages. ----- Since creating her groundbreaking first work, Th...
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- -: Pole Dancing for Empowerment: What Happened to Feminism?
February 1, 2011 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/09/22/IQ2_Feminism_Has_Failed Australian journalist Gay Alcorn claims that feminism has fallen short at significantly influencing pop culture. "I'd argue that in Australia, sexism is so embedded we barely notice it," says Alcorn, and "even if we do, most pe...
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- -: Housewife Superspy? Former MI5 Head Stella Rimington on Leaving Anonymity
July 21, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/chq_spies_technology_espionage Stella Rimington, former director general of MI5, recalls the complications and tabloid-fueled controversy that followed her appointment as head of the famed British intelligence service, after spending decades in anonym...
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