The program hosted by New York University in new york city is about an hour and 20 minutes. [applause] good evening. I am delighted to be here. Moderation is not really my strong suit. [laughter] im very glad to be here tonight as the moderator and the book launch of feminism unfinished a short, surprising history of american Womens Movements. I will introduce the authors and a little while so let me first tell you what the format will be and then i will introduce our three speakers. We will have short tenminute presentations by the three speakers and then we will give the authors of five minutes or so to respond to their comments and then we will open up to the audience for questions and comments. And then of course at the end at 6 30 there will be a reception with wine and chiefs. Let me start by introducing in the order that they will speak the three speakers for this evening. Michelle chen a remarkably prolific journalist writes on economic social and political issues affecting wom
I had four years off and return to Management Consulting and that was two years after my four years off of having two children. I earned the highest amount of money over the man and im now doing postgraduate studies after being a venture capitalist and im 43. Thats a good textbook case. Thank you for sharing that. The Womens Movement is at least 100 years old now and if you go back to suffragettes and its like the Civil Rights Movement for africanamericans which is even older, 150 years or so. Different movements of the source sort stagger at different times. Im thinking about do you have any comments on gender as it relates to people, cross gender people are people of amorphous gender. Thats a movement that is now maybe 50 years old at the most and it seems that its related to the Womens Movement in the same historical way. Yes i think we are just discovering the extent to which gender roles are more fluid than we once thought they were and discrimination against transgender individua
Dylan steve will be at the signing tent after if you have additional questions. Those of you been dying to know who i am. I am jessica grogan. I also have a book in the 60s is at the festival this weekend and you can find that in the 10th as well. [applause] [inaudible conversations] where youre at the National Press club with jennifer baumgardner. We are talking about we do . I would say this book is a feelgood book about one of the most frank thinks that have been politically in last couple decades. Now its a done deal. Its considering that momentum is continuing. I dont often have this happy of his tory. Its also a meditation on marriage. Im a feminist writer and i thought a lot about marriage. As a married person. I have a lot of issues with it. I think it has historically a lot of complexity for all of us as people who care about social is, but also value in something i was trying to grapple with in the book. And then theres american leaders as they came to terms with what it mean
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