Transcripts For SFGTV Port Commission 61416 20160622

Around growing up and men had the power and tried to imitate them and my father wanted me to have a career because he was a lawyer in sth 60 positive and saw far too many women divorced by their husbands after they put them through graduate school and supporting them. In law school and learned to shed my emotions. That is what a lawyer meant, it meant not feel thg tug for a victim but reasoning in a abstract way and leaving emotion out of it. As a law professor and dean and government official, i succeeded by impitating the men around me. I learned a lot. It is important that all of us be able to behave with confidence and know how to compete, but along the way i left many of my deepest intuitions behind and i will ask all of you to claim your whole sevls. It is not rocket science. [applause] it not rocket sciness to know that making room for the caring side of who we are, the love and investment in others and Family Members, biological constructed, the people you invest in the workplace and friends, making room for that side of us that cares about others as well as advancing ourselves is who we are and if women had run the world from the beginning this would be so obvious. You just cant imagine it. So many men feel it just as much as we do and yet they are not able to give voice and claim that part of who we are. We need to go forward and have this conversation about equality and advancing women but ultimately about equality for all of us, men and women, equality for comp tension and ability to work but also for the incredibly important work of care. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you so much annemarie slaughter and that hit so many themes that effect all of us including me. Im a divorced single working mom, i deal with childcare issues all the time. It is really hard. Thank you for touching on those themes. Just a quick note, i negligented to mention we have someone else i like to recognize, San Francisco assessor carmen chu. Thank you for being here. Next we will discuss women and work and workplace policies and benefit said for jepder equity to adjust what it takes to allow women to thrive in the local economy. We asumbleed a panel. The foupder nof popular website jezebel. Com and senior vise president at first look media, anna holmes. And also joining anna a member of San Francisco board of supervisors representing district 8, scott wiener. [applause] the legal drether of equal rights advocates, jennifer rice. Another member the San Francisco board of supervisors representing district 4, katy tang. And director of the Food Labor Research center at uc berkeley, [inaudible] thank you all and i will let anna holmes take it from here. Hi everyone. Thrilled it be here and thank you for the invitation and thrilled to be able to talk to our panel about women in the workforce. I think i want to start with having each explain what you do for the audience and also explain how your work intersects with gender equity and why you thichck it is important. My name is [inaudible] and i cofounded a organization just after 911 called the restaurant opportunity united for workers who lost [inaudible] we have grown to a national oreshz included strong presence in the bay area of restaurant wurbers, employ oars about 200 owners and several thousand consumers fighting for better wage squz working conditions in the industry which is the second largest and Fastest Growing economy mpt i also am a academic and teach at uc burgly and run a Research Center and written books on the industry. Most recently called [inaudible] we have been leading a campaign to eliminate the lower wage for tipped workers who are vast majority female. 7 opercent 06 tipped works are women. We are running cam pay to eliminate the lower wage. The issue of living off tips posed problems for millions of women. Good morning everyone. Katy tang and i serve on the board of superizvooers one of 4 women on our incredible board and glad tee be joined by one of my favorite male colleagues, scott wiener. We really like to push the velope on a lot of issues and we have especially enjoyed working on issues trying to make it Family Friendly for parent are earning to work and illtalk more about that later but essentially we really enjoy figuring what it is that are some issues we deal with in the private sector and also the Public Sector and see how it is that we could useolog legislation to solve the problems and push San Francisco forward and hopefully the rest of the complaintry as well. Hi everyone, jen fs rice and 24 legal director of equal right said advocates which is a non profit Civil Rights Organization founded in San Francisco in 1974 and we are still based here and work nationally to advance gender equity and education and employment for women and girl said. We work across different sectors. We do litigation and provide direct legal services. We also do a lot of work at the policy level locally we worked with several members of board of supervises of the past few years on local legislation to support working women. We also have lot of work we dot a the Grassroots Level with organizations like rock and others to lift up the wages and working conditions of lower wage working women who are of course the vast majority. Of those in the workforce. We do a lot of work to end jnder based and race based occupational segregation and really excite today be here to have this important conversation with all these wonderful allies. Hi everyone. Scott wiener and have the honor of representing dist rth 8 on the board of supervisors which is jeo Graphic Center the city which is castro, noe value and other terrific nairbtds. It is a honor to work with amiesing women like katy tang and malia cohen and london breed. The community that i came out of in terms of my activism, the Lgbt Community is a community where Workplace Equity and support is so critly important whether it is addressing a system attic discrimination against our community. Whether it is just against being lgbt or based on gender stereotypes. Whether it is huge number of lgbt people who are care givers. Whether it is someone who is home during a long hiv epidemic or Family Member because lgbt people because they are less likelywe are less likely to have children particularly gay men we are sometimes expected to do more in terms of caring for Family Members and so support in the workplace is incredibly important for the community i came out of. Being othen board and taking a broader view for all communities is something that matters a lot and as katy mentioned, we have the luxury in San Francisco of being able to push the progressive envelope. I want to address the first question. You mentioned earlier you had a report come out yesterday called belined the kitchen door and want to know if you can tell us what you found and the broader issue of the restaurant industry, how women make up or what percentage is made up of wem squn challenges they face . Yes, we did release a report yesterday called behind the kitchen door, promise a opportunity and challenges in the industry with shocking findings. First of all, the industry is exploding herement we are growing at a much faster rate than any where in the nation. 7 toathy percent of works work in restaurant, here in bay area it is more like 10 percent. 1 in 10 work in the food service and restaurant industry. 200 thousand workers and 10 thousand establishments and despite the growth and is booming and have progressive legislators passes legislation here and despite the wages are highers a a result, we found the highest rates ofrentially segregation in the bay area of anywhere we have done the study and have done the study in 20 locations around the country and surveyed workers nationally and found the highest rates of racial segregation in the bay area. Much more for women of color. What does it mean . It means people and women of color are segmented into lower level positions like buser and runners and pastry chefs and not necessarily the best paying positions which are fine dining and [inaudible] held by white people and mostly white men. You can go to any restaurant inf is and have dinner and will see what im talking about, your server is more likely to be white especially if you eat dinner on friday or saturday night. Your sever is most likely a white man and can look at the skin color and find there are far less tipped positions are likely to be women and people of color. So, segregation has real impacts for women and people of color in our industry and in particular the system of women dependent on a large portion income tips has challenges. The fact friday and saturday night shifts are the best you can imagine the havoc that wreaks for emwithen in terms of childcare and unpredict blg schedules. We are not just talking about not knowing when you finish your shift, you talk about finishs at 3 or 4 in had morning so needing overnight care and that is missing from the childcare policy debate and something that needs to be a part the conversation. Second big issue related to that is scheduling, the fact workers have no control over their schedules and there have been great attempts and movements forward around scheduling but a lot more needs to be done. The thirds big issue is when you live with so much income dependent on tips you are subject to the worst Sexual Harassment in the bay area or United States because when you are a woman and most dont work in fine dining, they work in olive garden and have one in San Francisco and dinys and i hop, you must tolerate what a customer may do because the customer is always right because the customer is providing so much of your income and so we find women are having to essentially having to tolerate Sexual Harassment and violence to feed families. Very wide range of issues for the largest employers of women. I question i have is, when you say we are not doing enough, what can be done . Is it legislative . So glad you asked that. There are a number of policies we suggest around segregation whether looking at implicit bias as im sure we will hear about, auditing, certification, things that create equal opportunity but a lot can be done working with high road employees. My new book shows high road owners working with us to set the standard, a different standard how thing cz be done differently. We have been working to form a alternative Restaurant Association called [inaudible] they have come to city hall and congress to say we believe in better wages and better childcare policy, better policy that address racial and gender segregation and better culture change around Sexual Harassment and violence and modeled. It is combination of policy and irk wg the high road restaurant employers many listed in the book and can support them. We need to support restaurants doing it right. As consumers how do you feel about [inaudible] go to these restaurantsi dont want to say confront but make it clear thati goi dont live in San Francisco, i live in new york, but there is a gender and racial breakdown a. Lot of people of color work in the back and collect your dishes and the peep lt that get most the tips and customer time are white and male. As progressive as we our rate of racial segregation and rate pay gap here is twice the rate of seattle and highest rate of any city we studied in the country and that is depressing to me as a bay area resident. 6 hour wage gap between white men and women and people of color especially in fine dining. That is unacceptable. We ask you to see ratings of restaurants and gives tools to communicate and say i love the food and service but i want to see more women of color on the dining floor and know you do something when the workers are hurassed by customers or coworkers and care about the issues and want you to know the customer and will only come here if you do something about it. [applause] you mentioned passing legislation as a tool for fighting for jendser equity in regards to the women in the workforce, can you talk about how passing legislation is effective and how [inaudible] sure. So, some of the things i work on and know supervisor wiener will speak on a similar topic as well. All the issues you mentioned we have been trying to experiment with City Government to see how different policy changes can help whether it is parents both jendsers, mother or father or any other orientation. For example, last year we had worked on a policy paid parental leave policy, city gump government in San Francisco we are ahead of the curve in term ozf the entire nation. We offer employees 12 weeks paid time off afteryou had a child, adopted or fostering a child as well. I think that is important. We call the policy paid present parental leave not paid Maternity Leave. Feel comfortable going back to work and making sure they have their job when they return. That is something we worked on in San Francisco if you look at the other cities in the United States we lag behind as a industrialized country. It is really shocking. Studies after studies have shown the ideal time you give a parent to take time off to bond and breast feed and so forth is about 5 our 6 months and there are other countries well ahead and offering much much more and even on a National Scale as a National Policy. We in the United States we offer zero as a National Policy so that is shocking and hope to continue working on and i will let supervisor wiener talk about what he is doing in the prifent sector. Another issue we have begin working on and want to thank city administrator naome kelly. We are starting with City Government toachytually have our department of Human Resources with work with all the City Departments to figure how each City Department can sxh up with a lactation policy to support mothers coming back to work and want to provide breast milk. One of my ledge slaisive aids ashly, came back from mu ternty leand supervisor cohen had just allowed us to turn a restroom on our floor by our office into a lactation room. Now, this sounds like we should had this a long time ago or in general, but after we turned that bathsroom into a lactation room we could not believe how many working mirth mothers inside the city hall asked for access so they didnt have to use the clause td on the third floor separated with shower curtains. It is amazing and so transformative to see that and we are working to figure how to use different strategies to help accommodate mothers who again want to lactate and actually provide fresh breast milk to their children. We are looking into lactation pods. Prefabicated and see how to incorporate that into facilities in city hall. Part of the policies is when we build new office space for city wirkers we have to incorporate a lactation facility in the building. We have federal laws arounds lactation policy and state law, but they donts go far nch. They just say offer a space that is not a restroom and that may be close to your office space, but dont offer uneed a locked door, maybe electrical outlet with a refrigerator, maybe a sink, make tg comfortable for the mothers. I think this is really important because it is recommended that you breast feed your child exclusely for the first 6 months of life. For women women, only 10 percent do that. The stats are startling and we can site countless studies about the helths benefits but think the most eye opening experiencing as we put forths the lactation policy is how many women came up and say, i wish i had this or i felt really uncomfortable asking my boss to use a facility or they told me to do that on the toilet. I really hope that our policy will spark a dialogue to insure women feel comfortable asking for the proper facilities to lactate and provide breast milk for their children and again if is a ongoing dialogue we have to have about how comfortable women feel about asking for certain things that they really deserve. [applause] i want to ask you jennifer about the california fair pay act and genesis of it and your work on it and also how the situation in california compare tooz other parts of the country. We [inaudible] it is supposed to be projessive and it is. I thought about the enactment of the fair care act because i was nursing my twin girls during the time when we were drafting the legislation last year and i actually have the experience having to go to the senators staff and ask them if there was a place i can go in the capital to go pump, so i know that it is a experience i think everyone can who wants to be able to do that for their kids when they go back to work has had that and knows how awkward it can be. And just acknowledgement this is part of life and a lot of working moms need that so approximate your work on that. We talk about the fair pay act and fair pay, a lot ofwe havei think it is pornts to remember what the problem is that that legislation is seeking to solve and the fair pay act of 2015 passed last year and signed into law october 6 by givener brown gave cl one of the staungest equal pay law in the country. What does it mean . We had a equal pay act in california for 15 years before a federal legislation fs passed. We were a innovator then and now. We passed it in 1949 and basically it codifyed the principle for equal pay for equal work which is something when you say it is sounds pretty uncontroversial and yet it is still not the realty. The realty is still that when we talk about what the gender wage gap is, we are talking about a difference in california the wage gap overall is you will hear the stats, 84 cents on the dollar. What 84 cents, what dollar and what is that talking about . That is refer toog the medium of wages earned by full time working women to full time working men, so yes, it compares women working as day care providers and restaurant servers to men working as construction workers and auto mechanics and restaurant servers and bar tendsers so it compares different kinds of apples to different kinds of apples and sometimes apple to oranges but overall it speak tooz there is this persistent gap between men and women working full time are able to earn in this economy and there are several important driving reasons for that and ways the law passed and the laws we need to pass kw push to pass at different levels, local state and national are seeking to address those factors. One thing i want to point out how we are doing in california, overall we are doing a little better when you compare all women to men, we are doing much much worse with women of coloring especially latina woman. Lutina women in california make less than 33 cents than men. It is unacceptable and appalling and points to problem with segregation and minimum wage which is poverty wage even with the interest and points to bias effecting women at the start of their careers all the way through as they make their way up the career ladder is there a ladder to climb and it speak thooz the barriers that we still have in terms of women and especially women of color getting into the higher paid occupations and industries in the first place. So, what does the fair pay act do . It strengthens the equal pay law we have in substantial ways. It eliminates the requirement for a woman say she is entitled for equal pay she has to work in the same establishment. When you think this is passed in 1949 when the economy was very different, when there nobody comed an employer a brick and mortar employ oars because they were all brick and mortar and all existed in one or maybe two places but it was rare you had these huge numbers of people working for chains and fran chizes like star bucks every ert block. Star bucks on market and 3, made 2 dollars less than market and kearny. Why should they only have look at their own establish it relace said the idea of equal work with similar work. This codifyed what the court already said equal work was supposed to mean. It never meant you had the same job title, it means you did substantially equal work when it came tooz skill, efforts and responsibility. So, it codifyed that idea to prevent back sliding and random weird interpretations by courts everywhere. It strengthens the protection for equal pay by requiring that employers demonstrate there was a boneifyed factor other than sex that was not derived from or related to a difference in pay because of sex. What does that mean . In pacts that means there are certain things we know employ oars do like rely on prior salaries to set starting pay. All most inevbly will perpch wait a wage gap. Part the idea behind that proinvestigation provision of the law is try to narrow the justification or excuses given for gender wage differentials when you have two people doing the same job you have to have a really clear and specific reason that explains the entire diferance in pay. The last big thing that it did is strengthened protections and made it very explicit you may not discriminate or retaliate for talk ing about pay, asking about it or discussing it and sharing information with their fellow coworkers. What it doesnt do and still need to work on is address the issue of pay of the lack transparency and lot of secrecy in all types of work places whether they have a policy or not that says you are not supposed to talk about pay which employers in california still do even though is illegal. There is a taboo talking about what you make and comparing to what you make and have it break that up and get people talking mpts one way we do that is engaging in young people. Millennials use the internet and social media more than any other folks and it is important to connect the dots between policy and culture so that is a area where we hope to work. Where the law starts we have a lot more work to do. We know a big reason for the huge gender wage gap that cost average half million overthe life time and much more for women of color is once you besxh a mother you face a huge hit directly by the unpaid time off oof work that you have to take if you want to recover from giving birth let alone bond with your child. Secondly, the hit your career takes when you go back and then on top of that you have a lot of bias, impliss, unconscious, whatever you want to call it or just straight up gender stereotypes about women who come back to work as moms seen as less comp tent and less desunching of high pay and privilege and authority jobs. When men become fathers they get a bump in slry and seen as more comp tent and worthy of promotion and advancement. I want to talk about men. When we were back stage you mentioned the district you represent and how it has the highest concentration of gay men in San Francisco or in the country and also how you got involved in issues of parental leave and jendser equity. Sure. So, earlier this year i authored legislation that passed unanimously at the board of supervisors that makes San Francisco the first place in the country to guarantee 100 percent wage replacement fully paid parental leave for 6 year 6 weeks for both parents, adoption, birth and it was a huge step forward and iit raised eye brows. Why is a gay man doing this . I think there is a stereotype that in the Lgbt Community because we are perhaps less likely to have kids, we somehow and particularly gay men dont care about family issues or childrens issue and if there was ever any validity to that, i dont know that there were but if there was it is not true today. In addition to increasing number of lgbt people who do have kids and lgbt people have always had kids but more so today. For those that dont have kid, when you look in San Francisco at some of our election maps for a school bond or kid focus or family folked ballot measure the castro is always off the charts for support. Sthais community that does care deeply about children and families and having healthy and successful kids. And so, supervisor tang started the conversation i think in city hall with the ballot measure last year to make our city paid parental leave more equitable so both parents can take full paid parental leave and bond with the kids so it is in a heterosexual color, not just the mom t is both parents and know families are more successful when both parents bond with the child. My chief of staff andres prepared for paid parental leave, he and his partner had surg gaes. He did Broader Research and realized that once you get beyaunds a place like the city and county of San Francisco government or certain Large Companies that have generous paid parental leave, most workers get little or nothing and in california we are one of a handful of states that offers something. You have 6 weeks of baupding leave where you receive 55 percent of salary and paid from wrurker contribution to state disability fund. For some people 55 percent is fine, you have a partner working and your salary is high enough you can deal with it, but many workers particularly lower wage workers taking 4 5 percent pay cut it wont work so you have a lot of people to choose do i bond with my new child or pay bills or go into debt to bond with my child or fall behind on payments, what do i do . No one should have tomake the choice. The legislation provides that the employer for companies with 20 or more workers put in the other 45 percent. It was interesting conversation and any time we are working closely with the Business Community to move this forward and the Business Community really stepped up and was collaborative and didnt just say no, provided feedback and ideas and we were able to Work Together collaboratively to make this happen and we are now moving towards implementation phasing and in the budget this year we will get fund toog do good outreach and education to businesses and workers to make sure everyone knows about it and knows how to comply. The really great thing is shortly after we passed it, it phases in january 1 over the course of 12 months for varying size companies and immediately several employers in San Francisco Just Announced they were implementing it right away and it was a combination of the writing on the wall so you do it, but there were employers inspired to step up and it is great. We have a huge amount of work to do arounds paid family leave in general and think we are moving in the right direction. Thank you. [applause] i have a count down qulauck which has run out but i want to keep talking and finish the [inaudible] about wage and equality or gender and equality and whether that is exacerbated in the bay area because of the large amounts of very very wealthy people concentrated here and moving here and the ways in which the rich and poor or differences are more stark. Is that something you feel you can speak to orthis is happening all over the country but think it is pronounced in the bay area. In the industry in the bay area is more reflection of the hour glass econ omy that the whole nation is going through, sur passing the guilded age more so in the bay area where fine dining is exploding and the number of jobs is much higher than the rest of the cuntsry because you have a very very wealthy population that is eating out all the time. That is food obsessed honestly. An explosion of fine dining jobs held all most exclusively by white workers and white men, a reflection of the explosion of these wealthy people but also those same workers actually whether they are in fine dining or the rest the industry which is men, not able to live anywhere near where they work, anywhere near where they work because they are completely displaced by exploding number of Million Dollar homes whether that is oakland or San Francisco. Anyone else . Yeah, the wage and equity issue is very i think important to remember just the numbers of folks living in poverty or near poverty line include a lot hundreds of thousands if not millions of working moms supporting families. Even here in the bay area where we have cities including San Francisco and oakland with higher than averagehigher than the state minimum wage, when you work full timet, 52 weeks a year, 40 hours a week and that is a rare occurrence for any worker in a lot of low Wage Industries to get that many hours consistently, but if you could work at that wage you will be barely above the federal poverty line of family of 3, one adult and two children. A city where average is over 3500, there is no way to make that work and so in terms of what we need to do to fight gender based wage inequity we need to look at the inequities we are struggling with in the economy and have to start to lift up the floor that is under all us and make sure there is a floor there because in Many Industries that i think this was mentioned in annemarie slaughters opening keynote, there are vast numbers of women speelsh working in industries where there basically is no floor and those are the woman who are care giving and Domestic Workers and childcare workers formal and informal. All these issues are all connected and i think we just need to keep pushing the envelope and lifting the floor from all directions. I want to thank the panel and audience for being here and all your great insight. [applause] ladies and gentlemen , the founding and ceo of policy link, angela gluber blackwell. Angela glover blackwell. Good morning. It is such a pleasure to be here. It is so exciting to see the bay area continue thg momentum that started in washington dc. It was very exciting and so is this. [applause] im so gratifyed to be here because the thing that i want to talk about is the thing i talk about every place i go and that is what is happening with people of color in the country and why it is so important to every asspect of the country we get that agenda right. Between the conversation you had about workforce and before conversation about racial bias in the workplace and i thought it was important to take a moment to step back before we started talking about racial bias and think about what is happening in the country. What is hap ing in the state of california. What will define the first part of the 21 century. Im convinced it will be the nation changing demo graphic. When we think about it, we know california is way ahead of the nation in terms of becoming a place in which the majority are people of color. 73 percent of all children under 18 in california are of color, native american, asian, latino, African American. The United States is gradually getting there and will get there a little more quickly than they think. By twen 4 the mu jrt of people will be people of color. [inaudible] the majority of all bobbies born in the country since 20s 12 are people of color. The majority och girl babies born are women of color. When we think how soon [inaudible] it will be earlier than 2044 because the people who will be buying homes, sending children to public schools, the ones who have stake in the game, that young group will be of color in the whole nation very soon. As we think about how it is that women are going to make a difference geing forward it is clear we have it think about women but have to understand what is happening to women of color because we are at a point in which the nation can see its future and it is a 17 year old black girl. It is 12 year ot olds latina or 7 year old mong girl. What happens will determine the state the nation, therefore, we have it think about an agenda that builds full inclusion, can tap all of those assets that these young wem squn male counter parts bring to the conversation. We have to think how it is in everything we do we craelt pathways for those on home the nation is dependent. When we are looking at the circumstances though, we have a huge challenge because at the same time we are experiencing this extraordinary demo graphic shift, inequality has become massive, vast and toxic. It is not just inequality that we have to worry about. Inequality at some level we know will be with us, but it is the toxic inequality that created a crisis. We are at a point where toxic inequality is hollowing out the middle class. It is baking in poverty and stalled mobility. The things that have really been hall marks for the nation that provides itself on providing opportunity are being severely threatened as inequality is becoming baked in. There was a time when economist thought inequality is good for growth but that is out the window and joe [inaudible] and robert rice and others made it very clear the level and type and characteristics of inequality we are experiencing now is size and growth. Even the International Monetary fund did a study and looked at 100 countries and found for every 10 percent decrease in inequality there was 50 percent lessening in the growth period. A good friends of my [inaudible] did a similar study in the United States looking at 100 regions across the United States and found every 10 percent decrease in inequality there was 50 percent lessening in the period of growth. When we think about it, this notion of equity, really essential for the future the nation and when i use the term equity i mean just and fair inclusion into a society in which all can participate, prosper and reach full potential. When we think about equity we often think about the fairness part of it. We think in the way that i just described it, but when you look at the inequality problem, when you look at the shifting demo graphics, it becomes clear if we get the equity agenda right , we get the nation right. Equity is the antidote to inequality and we think that equity is the superior growth modfrl the nation. The organization that i work for, policy link has something on our website which i guarantee you will enjoy playing with called the National Equity atlas. It looks at 150 regions across american. The first narrative tellathize story about changing demo graphics so you can go to whaerfb area and see the eshifting demo graphics. The next lists 32 indicators of economic wellbeing and broken down by race you can look at the Economic Indicators and see how American People are doing and people of color in particular. The last part is the punchline. What it does is looks at what would be the impact on the gdp if we got rid of Racial Disparity in termoffs income . If the curve of income did chbt have [inaudible] the people make thg lowest there are no difference on race and same with highest. The gdp would be 2. 1 twillian dollars hire every year. In 2012, in the San Francisco bay area the gdp would have been 117 billion dollars hires. Not only is equity important for fairness and justice and inclusion it is the spear yor growth model. I think it is clear we need it get this agenda right not just for emwithen of color and people left behind but for everybody. It reminds me of the curb cutter effect. You go the curb cuts, they are there because of the people with disabilities particularly those in wheelchairs. They are there because even though people with disabilities have been able to get legal rights the legal rights were hobbled if people couldnt maneuver to the knhunties to get jobs. Those curb curtss how many times you pushed a baby carriage and so glad it is there and didnt have to pick unthat contraption . How many times workers push carts and have the load lightened because of incurb cuts . How many times do people relax as the new bike rider 7 or 8 truversing the sidewalk and not riding the street . That is a example where wh we get something right for those most vulnerable it cast cades up. We get it right for those most vulnerable and get it right for everybody. The same is true if you think about the bike lanes. The bike laneerize there because of the vulnerability of people on bikes but in cityarve city where the bike laneerize installed traffic accidents have gone down. You get it proith for those most vulnerable you get is right for everyone. The bike lanes organize the traffic in ways we didnt know it has to be organize. The curg cut effect that will be in effect if we get the equity agenda right. What does tatyke get it right . We know a large part is people who go to work every day shoulden be poor. We need to lift that up as a value. We need to grow good job jz invest in entrepreneurship with the people who will hire those who need jobs most, women and people of color tend to higher women and people of color. Whelan latino, asian, African American are 3 times more likely to start business but are not able to start businesses , [inaudible] we need to grow good jobs. We need to make sure we lift the wages for jobs. People should make living wage jobs with the benefits you heard about. When we do that we dont just help those being left behind, we help everybody. We need to build capabilities. Our girls need Stem Education and need to be ready for 21 century jobs and Everybody Needs to getting the Higher Education what it take tooz be effective in the society in the workforce. By 201848 percent of all jobs require at least associates degree. Only 28 percent of black people, 28 percent of latino and foreign born have a associate degree. We have to invest making sure the education is available to the people who we depend on. We have it to make sure we expand opportunity. We live sadly in a nation in a state, we live in a environment where you live is a proxy for opportunity. You tell me your address and i know way too much about your chances. I know whether or not if you are lucky enough to own a home and value you can pull out. I know if your children are likely to go to a good school. I know if you live near a job or Public Transit system that can connect to jobs and know how long you will live and how well you will live. Tell me your zip code and i can tell your life expectancy, that is wrong. We need to invest in making sure [applause]that people in low income do not have to live in communities that isolate them. We need to invest in those communities and make sure every community is a communityty of opportunity. North to achieve the equity goals our Business Community has to do a different job. We need to make sure we are hiring people, hiring people of color and women of color, high rer men of color and providing access to the people that will need it for businesses to flourish and society to flourish but it is not just hiringment we need the right circs and parental leave and childcare and all these things that allow for women to be able to thrive in the workplace no matter in the circumstance. We need corporation tooz make the right decisions it takes with sensibility of who is doing the governance. We need to think about this though, what are the services, what are the products produced by businesses . We need Grocery Stores in low income communities and things that allow for families to be able to reach their full potential. All these things require we have a vastly different population in our businesses. People who understand the challenges that are prepared to go forward. When we have a Public Policy debate in this country we look to our Business Leaders to be leaders to step up and write public policies. It is not just those working for social change to speak out for childcare and speak up for living wages. It is not just people for social change that have to speak up Affordable Housing that allows families to connect to opportunity and jobs. Business leaders have to do that as well and not until we change within the business we will have the policy partners we need. If this is what we need, a fully inclusive society, uj one that values equity, if we need to 345ick sure people that will be the future will lead the future because they need and they need and the nation needs we have to do this, mayor libby schaaf challenged about [inaudible] nobody want tooz talk about race. It is a painful thing but have to talk about race and understand with spec fity who is left behind and why and how to change it and challenge those things that have been around us and influenced us way too much. It is not until[applause]it is not until we have fully unleashed the potential and promise in all of us that we can unlock the promise of the nation. Thank you. [applause] it is time a quick poll. Take out your conference app, select pool and answer the questions for this mornings session. He is the boss, she is bossy. The negative way women are perceived at the office in a new app by pan teen that is vieral. It hit a nerve so we sent out to find the truth. Are women who act the same as men seen differently . How do you feel as a job candidate . [inaudible] no problem. Now listen to him. Knroe the windows operating system like the back of my hann, no problem. [inaudible] the resumes ind denticle, the interviews idantical. The only difference is jendser but when it comes to who got the job better soft skills. I would say the woman was air gnt and overselling the female job seekers come off aggressive and rated less likable you are supposed to be strong to get the job and say if you are too strong you dont get it. You need to behave to advance in the workplace but seen negatively because that isnt how we expect women to behave. If you think this is just male bias, it is not. Both men and women doing the hiring made the same call. Because the level of air gns that may be okay to be a manager and there is a step above and thought she was slightly above that. When we reveal thd Study Results i was surpriseed by my reaction. What does it say . We have a long way to go. Lorienesera mackenzie. For more than 30 years women have out earned men in undergraduate degrees, yet despite this as we heard this morning, there are far too few women at the top and far too many women at the bottom. As mayor schaaf said this morning, lets not only look at the big reason, the reason we know pay inequity, lets look at the invisible reasons. What i will do in the next 15 minutes is give you a primer on unconscious bias so hold on. I want to start with the optical illusion. Look at squares a and b, how many people think squares a and b are the same color . How many of you think they are different colors . Alright. Would you be surprised to learn they are the same color . What is happening is that your brain is imagine the cylinder is casting a shadow and it is filling in the blanks of what you expect to see. And like a optical illusion, bias is effect what you actually see. Like you saw in the resume study in the video, the same stript can sound remarkbly different when it is enacted by a man or a woman. So, i want to give this primer today so we can join together and block not only the things we see but the things we cannot see, the invisible glue that keeps change from progressing despite all our best efforts. At the [inaudible] institute we call this see bias, block bias. Because it is implicit or unconscious we have to first be able to see we ourselves are proun to this in order to then block it and insure everybody has a fair opportunity to be both a great leader and a great care giver. Often when we talk about unconscious bias we talk about it asthe cognitive function like the optical illusion that makes error in our Decision Making. There is a booblg called blink by [inaudible] and talks about the development of expertise that enables a art dealer to tell a fake in the blink of a eye. At the end of the book gladwell talks about the fact we dont develop the same expertise about people. He took what is called, Implicit Association test. You can take this on line at project implicit harvard and in this test researchers wanted to get at what is inconscious and implicit because people were they were asked no longer overtly said men are smarter than women, but when they make decisions they acted as if they still were saying these things so this test gaugesiourimplis lt association. Malcolm gladwell took the test of the difference between white and black people and discovered he had a moderate preference for his rife which shows biases are shared on a cultural context. It isnt men do iting to women or people doing it to people of color. It is shared context. At this point it feels like a downer. I told you it a shared cultural context and all do it even against people like ourselves so the institute asked to ask a different question, can we finds how bias embeds in people functions. In how you write a job discrepgz and interview. How you assess someones per forumance. Can you look at who gets the best assignment and who gets stuck with the Office House Work . Who is listening to in Team Meetings and then who gets ignoreed or overlooked . If we can identify and diagnose how bias works in those functions, we can give people a opportunities to block that. People ask what do you mean organizational function of bias. I love the resume study. In the 1980s, 5 percent of top musicians were wem squn people think do you think bias has something to do with this. They did an experiment and put up a string so the evalwaiters can not see the jendsers och the musitions. A lot of stages are wooden so if i click across the platform, the sound of my heals is enough to indicate im a woman so thahad to put carpet down. The introduction of this screen and the carpet meant a woman was 50 percent more likely to advance to the next round. No orchestras in the United States are 40 to 50 percent women. [applause]. Here is the thing though, adaugzs still require the screen because the screen didnt eliminate bias, the screen blocked bias from effecting Decision Making. So, quick word about bias mpth in social science bias is considered a air in Decision Making. The evilwaiters wanted to choose the very best musicians possible but something they thought they knew about women and men musicians blocked the ability to make the best decision when they saw the gender of the musicians. How does this work . Imagine you have a bunch of musicians coming on stage avenue 5 minutes, you are trying to look for shortcuts and information processing. You might know where someone is from and their phrip code as Angela Glover said. Those shortcuts produce gender bias when we rely on jendser stereotypes. We heard who is a beder leader or care giver, when stereotypes around people act as some of the Decision Making factors, when we process a lot of information that is where gender bias happens. I will show a study similar to the video saw, the exact same resume. They sent it out to psychology departments across the country. The only difference is some get the resume with a mans name and some with a womans. I find this amusing, they go to psychology departments across the country and if you imagine the department which is bias, knowing about bias doesnt block bias. We ask how likely is your department to hire the candidate and by changing the name greatly decreasing the likelihood the woman will gehired. 80 percent of 24 mans said they would hire him. Fewer than 50 percent would higher the woman. Put more degrees and grants and find it difference does degrease but here is what doesnt decrease, the womans [inaudible] 4 times the statements as a man. Statements like this, i need to see evidence she got the grants and publications on her own. Do you hear the higher bar . This is how bias works. Some candidates have to deliver more proof over and over again to have the same consideration. The second caumentd, it will be impossible to make a judgment without seeing teaching evaluations. Maybeset the right criteria. Maybe this comment shows we are hiring men without knowing if they are good teachers. That is leniency. You can start to hear how bias plays out in subtle ways. Some people have to offer more proof and some people will get by without getting enough scrutiny. We talked about gender bias and want to show a few other studies, same audit studies that demonstrate how it works among other dimensions. Two identical resumes, the only difference is one says officer och a Parent Teacher association. You donts have to be a parent to be a officer at a Parent Teacher association, but just indicating on a resume it will be enough to have the person considered less company tent and committed, offered a lower salary and less likely to be called back for interview. Men were more likely to be called back with a higher wage. If a jaurb application has a common African American name, they are less likely to get called back and the top one, gay men are less likely than straight men to be called back for job especially in highly masicalenized context. This is regional so imagine which part this matter less and matter more. In california there is no difference. I want to take a moment and pause. These studies show one dimension, mother versus not mother. I am a wom squn asian and given the context with what is demanded, my race and gender intermix. Asians are known to be very analytical which may have explained when i went to Business School people wanted it be on my statistics study group. Little did they know. Worked for me though. When i rise to management as a asian known as very analytical and good at details that is disadventage for leadsership which requires presence and authority. Remember while i talk about bias all most in a binary sense men versing women, it is multidimensional and changes context and can change across the career of a person. As we just heard, stereotypes effect the very standard we evaluate people. Some people getting a higher bar and others leniency. A second dimension is demonstrated in this study. This time we have two different resumes for the position of police chief and if you think about police chief im like the awesome fire chief coming in today i picture a man. So, we ask what is more important for the position of police chief, more educationi think this is police academy, which probably shows my age. Or more experience, i think of this as beat work. What is more pornls for police chief and with no names on the resume people say education. Lets put names onput the mans on the preferred resume and the women on the other and as predicted more education wins again. We will put the womans name on the preferred resume and the mans name on the or the one and we pick, the man. When asked why, why is this the best candidate the people say because has more experience. In this way the criteria we use shifts to justify what is probably a gut or stereo typical response to a question. We unconsciously raise or lower the bar and shift our criteria, so how do we see the unseen . Now, this is another optical illusion. How many see a old face . How many see a young face . I have this in theory in silicon valley, we only see the young face. Here is quhut we know from neuro science, once you see this you cannot unsee it so i saw it a a child and adult decades later ask can still see it so my goal is help you see what is unseen you can block bias and have it be one of your actions you take. The most common way we transmit culture, replicate culture is through language. Describe a top performer, behaviors and attributes. Think of a specific person. In my neighborhood there is someone who organizes block parties. Think of a specific person and write a few words describing the behaviors and attributes of this top performer. Come with me on the experiment. This would never happen but imagine i have taken your top performer away and will show two descriptions to replace and you center to pick one. How many would place your top performer with description a . And how many will place with description b . I say 90 percent picked description b. They are written differently. Description a is communal language. Description b is described as a independent agent taking charge. Researchers at Rice University went through 400 letters of recommendation and found the more communal language use d for uration of medical director, the less likely the person was to be put forward for can daes. Guess which language is used to describe women . Communal language. Even the sponsors of women who dont understand the autoimateic judgment will accidently disadvantage the candidates they try to advocate for. This is the type of word the researchers do. We also [inaudible] performance reviews to see the type of language used. We find it is not only agentic versus communal but something else. This is the interview study you heard earlier. The woman who toot their own horn, advocate for themselves are seen as more company tent but seen as unlikable. Because they are seen as unlikable, the only candidate in that study are the highly assertive man. In fact, the very comtent woman gets fewer offers that the modest male. This is called the likeability penalty women face. The more comtent we occur the less likable, the more likable the less comtent. Men it is positively correlated so more powerful the more likable. It is a narrow double bind we put women under. Our solution, we need to break the tendency to rely on stereotypes when making decisions especially around people. Think of the blindaditionism you cant undo bias but can block it from effecting the decision you make about people. I will give two very short answers and i hope throughout the day you will share with each other more. One, when you make decisions about people, if you first yife the criteria you are using you are less likely to rely on stereotypes. In the police chief study when they asked the next round of people in round 4 what are the criteria for police chief and they said education they were more likely to pick the woman as the top candidate. If you simply agree to bring a little process to your Decision Making and agree to the criteria in advance it will act like sth blind sknreen and prevent relying on stereotypes. The second thing, if it is hard for women to tell you im a leader in this and excellent in this without evoking the likeability penalty you can do that on her behalf. We discovered women profeshers new get lower ratings because they say are they good and expert . A professor did a experiment, in one class he introduced a woman ta as a name and second introduced her with all our expertise and published this and leads the lab and does all these things. In the condition where ehoointroduced her powerfully based on expertise she got higher ratings. If you dont know it, you can be a one person pr person for the women and people of color around you. Can you vouch for their camp tense. The one can all take, get to know someone here today, powerful introduce them to another and so they have seen for their full expertise. You cannot eliminate bias but you can block it to insure we are lifting woman up and bringing them all the way to the top. Thank you. [applause] thank you lorie. You guys can dance too if you feel more energetic. Bay area woman, how are you doing . May name is [inaudible] we are from kaiser [inaudible] we need you to stand up and push those chairs in. [music in the background brx ]. I know a lot have on fancy shoes so move out [inaudible] get your body moving and blood pumping. When we go this you go this way, if we go this way rsh you go this way. Can we start from the beginning. March it out. You do as much as you can. It also helps if you [inaudible] you look good, by the way. Here we go. Very good, ladies. Yeah, there it is. Yeah there you go. Leg up. Leg up. [inaudible] punch it out. You look good everybody. You look so good yeah shoulder roll, here we go. Get in there. Give yourself some love thank you so much. We are kaiser and hoping you have a great day and thrive are you awake . Do you feel refreshed . [laughter] what a talented bunch of women, who know you could rock it out . That was fun. Alright. Everybody whipeing off the sweat, settling down. Before we move on our graphic recorder julie [inaudible] is providing a visual interpretation of todays proceed squgz will have her drawings in the lobby later today. We have a fabulous Panel Discussion coming up for you, another one to lead our next discussion on leadership and visibility welcome nbc white house cur spondence, chrising. Joining is former hodef u. S. Protection agency and Vice President of environment policy and social initiative of apple, lisa jackson. Also welcome back to the stage cohost and mayor of oakland, libby schaaf. And a very special guest from nearby hayward welcome the 43 treasurer of the United States, rosie rios. And chris jansing, the stage is yours. Thank you all. And thank you for coming. Im so exsiteded to be with these women. They all worked together as one time ear another. It is like 6 degrees of separation but in addition they are womeen in fields that a lot of women found difficult to break through in, science and technology, government, level of finance. Being the United States treasurer and opening wine at a cocktail party, that is my name on the 5 and 10 and 20 dollar bill. They say that is my moms signature. Is their name too so they use it all the time. We want to talk today about what is means to be in a leadership role, what the visibility means, both the proand cons. I want to start with big picture question and go through all 3 quickly. How has being a woman helped your career and hurt it . That is a great question. This position of the treasurer of the United States is a woman since 1949 and at the time president truman thought is to have a womans name on the money. It was a symbolic gesture. On the other hand the position evolved over time and before i took the job it was ceremonial so felt the need to redeem it, validate with something more substanceative. Mayor. I think of two things where it helped me. One, i feel like sometimes i am under estimated in negotiations and that actually is my advantage. Sometimes with even professional sports teams. And then second, when i face the tv cameras and Say Something like, i came to run a police department, not a frat house, people feel how serious i am. They know that statement comes from a life experience, a lived experience that is very real. I think can at to your credibility and plat form of knowledge you can speak from when you are connected from your passion and knowledge. As far as hurting me, i want to be real, breast feeding. Breast feeding as a executive. To walk into had board room and have two giant wet spots on your blouss is one the hardest things. When i tweent the white house president o obama said there is something in the water because so many women were pregnant. They have a great set up at the white house and sure Valerie Jarrett will have things to say. Lisa i should give prop tooz apple because your company was named wrun of the top 5 recruiting and retaining high quality talent but for you what it meant it to be a woman . I think you bring yourself to everything you do from academics to work place,thality is the good. Im a chemical engineer by training so i always felt i had a different perfective in a class full of back quh i was at school mostly guys who were studying along side me so it is a huge advantage. It can be the disadvantage because the perspective is different and dont fit the mold you have to fight to be heard and understood and not just sort of that classic moment where you Say Something and someone who is male says it a couple minutes later and they remember it because they say it. It is real but two sides the same coin. When i read you had a master degree in Chemical Engineering and got tight in the stomach and is that because that isnt my skill set . Or because there is something intrinsic in me that says that is something women are not good at and dont do . Are we still there with that . How is stem coming along . Stem is coming but it is pipeline issue. For some time Chemical Engineering had a lot more females studying at the under graduate level so we are perfectly capable no surprise of doing the work. I think what is a bit disconserting is retention part because we are soi like to use mr. Slaucken and diana troy, we are taught being a scientist we have toleave all this emotion back to make good decisions and what i believe and annemarie slaughter was on and what i believe is change the profession of engineering or science to incorporate a humanistic version. Im a chemical engineer that works on cleaning up hazardous waste. I want to look at stats because i think they are telling and interaesting in the context of the last speaker and we were behind this wall and watching and it is little disconserting it see two people of equal talent and resumes going for the same jobs and the way they are perseechbceived differently. Womeen earn 60 percent of masters degrees and half of law degrees. They hold all most 52 percent of professional level jobs so all great, right . Here is the bad news. Women are less than 15 percent of executive officers 8 percent of top wage earns and less than 5 percent of fortune 500 ceo. They hold 17 percent of fortune 500 board seats. Why are women not doing better . It isnt just the numbers it 1 the rends im more concerned about. If you think about the 3 pillars of influence, lets talk about money and power piece. Womeen started reteated from their participation as members of congress in 2010. The numbers started going down. The fortune 500 ceos it wasnt from 24 last year to 21 this year and it will be 20 when we lose urlsa burns. It is the trend we should think about and dont think we growing going in the right direction. I can talk about politics because being in washington and on the campaign trail, wrun the most fascinating and depressing conversations i had was with someone whos job to recruit woman to run for congress and other mayor or city council and what she told me is woman and men auch approach the jobs very very differently. Women go in because they want to change the world and dont want to say there are not men that dont go in for the right reasons. They go in because they want to be somebody who can be a positive force for changeism men go in maybe for that reason as well but it is power. When women especially women who they recruit for the house and senate, think about what they can get done and look how polarized washington is and know they will have to give up. We all know what price we pay for doing high level jobs. They just dont see thethey do a cost benefit analysis and dont see what could begained. Maybe 20 years ill be a Committee Chair and have influence. I dont know someone who run for different offices or city council, what do you see . It is applicable to a lot of places in the world, you do had cost benefit analysis and in theened you wonder if they think it isnt equal and have to do more in the other part of my life and do what jirjer rogers did compared to fred astair. So, what will it take . You know, im a fan of emerge california and emerge america. [applause] which is a organization that is helping Democratic Women seek first office. A lot of organizations are trying to get people into congress but you dont have qualified women to run for Congress Unless they start at the school board or Library Commission or something else. Secondly, their studies demonstrate there are two big reasons women choose to not run. First, they feel too many obligations outside of the their work. Their families, the home and so again, by liberating men and the rest of the society to share in those duties, will help all of us. And then secondly, women tend to need to be asked and so that is something we all can do. Encourage women to see themselves as those leaders. I agree but why do we wait . I bragged about the fact i never went for a job and people c5i78 to me as i made my way up to a small newspaper and Radio Station and television and coming to nbc [inaudible] happened to see mei was happy working away in albaany new york and was on vacation and ais a me and made a phone call. I dont think that is as truei have been in the business 40 years, but why do we wait to be asked . I think that we were trained maybe not by our caregivers but by society at large that women should be asked and i do think that changed a lot from the time when i was going through and being the only woman in class or only woman in engineering. I want to put all you on the spot. For all the woman who want to know how to ask how do they come to you in positions och power and leadership, what is the ask . I want to switch the script a little because i am tired of us blaming ourselves like you are not brave enough to do it yourself. It is really important in all areas of impact, gender is one, race is another that we stop blaming the individual actor and look at the system and us in government we often have been put in place to maintain the status quo. There are systems and practices in place that we have to disrupt if we want different outcomes. In oakland we change from having traditional election to ranked Choice Voting that allows a voter instead of picking one candidate to rank tupe 3 candidates and one of the things that it often results in and not saying it is not perfect but it often results in actually more politecome paining because you dont want to offend the supporters of your competitor because you want them to put you second. Hat is so true in this campaign season. Yeah. Hello. That is a system change, changing the way we do elections led to more civil campaigning. I think it starts individually and think disruption is a big piece but i call myself a constructive disrupter. You have tobe very strategic and have to do your homework. You shouldnt ask for something and bang on the table because you deserve it because you are a woman you have to do the research you need to do to make your proposal. When i took this job i wasnt going take the job because i was a woman or a history of latina, i made a proposal and wasnt going to take it unless it was substantive enough to use my finance background. It is systemic. The Treasury Building was built in the 1800s and didnt have a nursing lounch. I took it on because i thought it was porpt for a woman coming back into the workplace to feel they are valued and have a place to go and can do their job. It is more than that. As you probably know i have worked on the projecktd in the last 8 year tooz put a woman on our currency. Working on it very successfully this is best example of what you are talking about, i have the printing drecktder who reported to me and his deputy and his deputy and they worked at the be 2rks all most 100 years so the projject came to mind december 2008. As you look at how the [inaudible] the person on the front [inaudible] it was strange that 50 percent the population was not honored as part of our history. I ask the 3 people individually why the conversation hasnt happened before in 120 years. Mean while there is over 40 countries, us and saudi arabia. The answer i got from each people individually was the same, no one ever brought it up. So, what else are we not bringing up . Hash tag, bring it up. What else are we not bringing up . I know you have your phone, hash tag bring it up. I guess in that context, is there something that you learned along the way when younger women come to you or women returning to the workforce which i see a lot in the 30s or 40s because they see a lot of young women in journalism and ask what can i do. Do you feel that part of your leadership responsibility is to give that opportunity to young woman and what do you tell them . I absolutely believe part of our job is insure diversity and for us diversity at apple but for me personally is more than gender or gender identification, but at this forum lets talk about that. Meantering is important. Finding sponsors for people there to help you succeed. Dont confuse meantering with charity work. You have to make the valued proposition for me because there are so many people that are looking to find the right place. It is really important to know what you want so you asked about why dont we ask. I think we just need to profect asking. We need to prosquecktfect saying here is what i bring to the table and i will never ever discount the importance of looking someone in 24 eye and saying, i want to work for you and here is what i can do to help you be successful while i also become successful. Everyone, male and female needs to dothality before she wrote a best selling book there was gasps in the audience when she suggested she did not like it when someone says will you mentor me. That she felt that was somehow less thani dont want to put words in her mouth or what do you consider with this role both in government very different types because you had to run for office, do you consider yourself a roll model and feel a responsibility in the leadership position to help other women achieve that . It was a great moment when a boy looked and said, can boys be mayors too . Im like, oh my god i was like, yes, sweetheart, they can. For methis ties into answering your last question. My advice to young people, one is just to be very clear about your passion and mission and values. At least in my business you need a very thick skin. You got to always have the place to come back to. The other thing and this sh kind of a twist on meantering is Pay Attention to relationships and that can beit is no accident rosa, rosie, we are up here together. Isnt that ironic . We Work Together. A champion can be on a specific project it is project management the approach whether investment so far a firm and the Due Diligence process is very, very specific how you decided whether or not your investing in a project the existing conditions and now the recommendations from the limbs if you think about that in a more simplistic way how you propose a prong this is what i use when i propose this what is what you use for any type of projects this recognition inspiration taking on the ability to be able to do our homework and think about what youre doing for that champion how to affect the organization or is people around you and is inspiration what that means in terms of what youre leaving behind you if you think about what to propose a project or program and you go to someone male or female and asking them to be a champion of what youre froeps scloons you follow that path of Due Diligence the same way it is not failed me it kind of takes the personal stigma off of what it means with you approach a male colleague or boss is it so very, very specific and let me tell you that works 100 percent great advise weigh coming down to the final minutes what time do you get up in the morning. 4 oclock 6 oclock how how many you are hours a week do you work with your job in the with the kids in the how much you work. Nonstop 24 7. Ill say on my minds wjd weekends. Can we take anything onstage or the black berries. You know she works with the government but im saying when ill with any kids two kids 100 percent with them absolutely the time i spend on weekend is 100 percent with them absolutely. How many hours a week do you work. You dont want to work i was the mayor you, you cant turn off your phone needless one time i went camping and no Cell Phone Service ill not do that i packed up this family and drove home something bad happened it required any attention my kids are 8 and 10yearold and trying to figure that out time is a challenge we do talk about that has a family the fact that protesters showed up at the house is something we talked about as a family but you know they ivy had a moment i cried on the pillow i told that any husband i was bad he said youre doing a work that benefits our community and great. clapping. so working at apple and we know that is a great place to work 40 hours are a nice lunch break i remember those days its true your 24 7 with you work at the high levels of government with the executive leadership i try to find the consequential u that equivalent of one full weekend day im not working ill go probably say but i read a lot i dont feel and i honestly belief youre working 24 7 with our childcares i believe that one of the things i say to woman in the guilt is there get rid of it youre putting it on yourself one more bag on our back take it. clapping. down and youre doing the best you can none what ask i do what i love and ive been fortunate inform leave government returning the dpa we call it we had to support each other and now i get do do that added apple i love if it i didnt love it id leave a lot of women have to work and what you do you do and i do crosswords and hike when im stressed i need to go for a walk. Put on bouncing. What did you do for yourself. I love game of thrones i believe to a book club im geeky i love science fiction. How many hours. 6 and ii love to snuggle in bed with my kids. Is that a change. clapping. trust me i was with any nephews 4 and 16 he was working at the wlv and they were like off oh, that was cool they were going crazy that would be uncool they show they had a great time its been spending time with my kids having it all didnt fit anyone it tells you that none i think that is this way the rosy pie of life in San Francisco any pie was many, many slices my girls and jobs i moved to d. C. That was my job and with my kids nothing else and any social life is my kids ill go away for the weekend and a Basketball Team ill travel with a Basketball Team or my son plaza plays tense thats what forces me for the last 8 years the noticing next years another slice everyone need to create in their own slices so oftency r i didnt it the new word were completely out of time i asked him to so an answer i want to leave with their answer to one question what do you wish lisa someone told you were 20. And answered this for oh, magazine get all the education while i want while your young life gets from the way if you are thinking of that degree get it now someone told me and to steal all my mothers jewelry. Libby i wish someone that they told me when was 20 he is not the one for you. laughter . So dont be upset because someone much better is coming along laughter but i do wish again you know dont forget relationships they get you through didnt have to be amiss try relationship choose our friends well and keep plugged in to that passion theyll get you, you youve earned your seat at the table my pet peeve i see women walker into a room and take a seat at the wall and participating in the conversation something my mom told you whatever table sit up front and close and raise your hand for a question and be prepared i tell people cut yourselves a break we all need to let ourselves know that no one is perfect i wish i learned this younger and say thank you more. Sometimes the thing you think are the worst failures are the best. Lizzie jackson and libby schaaf what a fantastic group the conversation about the future. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome anyone that needs no introduction the former mayor of the city and county of San Francisco the honorable willie brown. Good morning to each and every one of you im delighted that mayor ed lee and mayor schaaf invited me to come participate in the bay area womens summit it was a concept that we started many years ago in San Francisco. And for 5 consecutive years we did the womans and mayor submit right here with the same emphasis that those two mayors are doing for the San Francisco bay area understand there is and the at least two of my chair people here linda and carol chairpersons on more than one occasion before the event. clapping. that was frankly spectacular it did appropriately address the needs of women and what basically, had been for a long time an attitude busy government by businesses and by operations that did not Pay Attention to the differences between what was done with women on behalf of women and other people and so it was fabulous to have that occur and to have those two mayors come forward now addressing the needs and the issues and to have all of you attend her in i know youll enjoy when they extended the opportunity to me they called to my attendance attention a person that had for a long time participated and was the driver and organizing immigrant women extending care for children, and suddenly discovering that in the process of people being in an i didnt see and wet maids. What have you a desire to have their assistance carried over to people of a different age older people and to that end after organizing Domestic Workers in the state of new york she focused her attention on merging the adjudicators of care given side which is a whole new concept of for this nation they organized and caused new york to say that their shall be a Domestic Workers bill of rights a concept that is also in the state of california and concept that is about to happen in the state of illinois but simultaneously aribnb the right to do what you do when somebody says youre a fellow they said that about her aribnb the right to be included in time magazines one hundred greatest people or 5 hundred greatest people or whatever the number she is if i did in every one of those categories they writes and speaks and organizes and in a manner in which the energy put into it cant be impaired in any other source i should is share and video michael has done before i bring her on michael can we do the video . You are a wonderful enjoy full loving person. A father figure to me. You are just gentle we care about each other an interest in each other if before i came to country i was taken care of of my grandmother i thought you can do the job. I took it for granted if i do anything ill get up and go out shopping and visiting people unfortunately, it is no longer the case. I noticed you were changing years ago. After i being able to get to go outside i got the opportunity then to go places with you. When i got home from rehab after being unaware for over 3 medias months the first thing i saw 8 balloons you put up around my door welcoming me back and he knew i was truly home. I am totally honored to be a caregiver for you that is a great privilege and a enjoy for me. There are so many things i still carton do i dont think open you to help me the hem is given so freely what so much love and that makes me feel a lot better. And still independent. As i said independent with benefits. Were not only just caregivers you are nutritionist the nurse and doctor. Your my mother davis and loved by a whole a lot of people. Youre a doctor morris youre my patient your pediatrician, war veteran, taught me things i know would take me through the rest of my life. Youre my community but even more than that youre my friend. And as much as youve done for me nothing i wouldnt do for you also. clapping. i am delighted to present to you the subject matter of that video and the subject matter of my aspiration engine who. Thank you so much mayor brown what an visible honor to be introduced by you im humiliated and huge thanks to mayor ed lee and mayor schaaf i want to give a huge amount of appreciation for staff whos work made that possible can we give them a huge round of applause. clapping. i am so thrilled to be here for so many reasons im going to pick up where did great ann mary slaughter left off this morning and talk to you about the work that makes all other work possibly the work of kevin for the most precious elements of our lives our kids, hour homes our aging loved ones or in the case with people with disabilities our independence all of us are touched in one form or another by this work. In fact, if youre providing care for a Family Member or loved one or friend at the moment can you just raise your hand hundreds of us thank you all the work you do to care for families members that work so often goes unrecognized and unbeknownst appreciated no there is also a large and growing part of our workforce who does care and Domestic Work as a profession approximately 2 million women work as in an i didnt see and housekeepers and attendance in the great state of california some of them are here in the room the members leader of and the california Domestic Workers coalition are you here. clapping. huge shout out it is their job to make sure that our homes are peaceful and cared for that our aging loved one can will well in the community and people with disabilities can live independent and full lives what could be more important and yet it is some of the most unevaluated vulnerable work in our Economy Today, we comparing compare it to the wield west you might find an wonderful employer to stay with for years and generations at times weve seen that or you might find the other end the spectrum weve found cases of modern day slavery and Sexual Assault and everything in between not much but in fact, you can walk into any Department Building arrest neighborhood in the be sure and not know which homes are working places there is no registry, no guidelines and even as an employer if you want to do the right thing it is not a little clear what that is in fact, there is a very long history of exclusion of this workforce from some of the most basic protections that all of us take for granted in the 1930s when the new deal was negotiated in Congress Southern members of congress refused to support the package of lash laws if they included farm workers and others that are mostly black workers at the time so the fair laborer standards act that created the minimum wage that provided the framework for the right to form a union both passed with inclusion of Domestic Workers those racial exclusions with impacted by the fact that the work is not seen as real work it is associated with womens work taken for granted or expected and not associated with any real economic value so what meant for workers like Elizabeth Fernandez as a caregiver is 12 or 14 or arena the clock would cooking and cleaning and Grocery Shopping and physical work it is that hard work really hard work and she takes home between 8 and 9 per hour those wages have to stretch she has to support her children and family and the philippines and pay her own informed and rented not hard to see how we i understand windup in a situation 1 3rd of the workforce relies on public assistance just to survive how could it be that such a hardworking workforce were counting ton to care for our families cant earn enough to take care of their own this workforce is on the front lines of tremendous change in the culture and demographics we saw how many of us are caring for Families Month caregiver work is done by families it is stretched today more than 60 percent of women have working outside of the home juggling fulltime work with more than two hours on average of work kevin for families members on top of that and theyre increasingly relying on many house cleaners and housekeepers to support their needs on top of this this year the baby boomers are turning 70 as a rate of every person 8 seconds and because of advances no health care and Technology People in any grandmother demographic of 85 and older are the faster demographic in the nation and millennials that are turning 35 and having children and relying on chair mar providers and in an i didnt see to support their chair mar needs those jobs predominantly held by women more than 90 percent women often women of color and immigrant women those jobs kauntd be outsourced and for the month to month moment most people peace officer humans to care for their loved ones that may change home care is the feast growing cooperation and by 2030 caregivers will be largest in the economy weve got to transform those jobs into good jobs you can take provide in and one generation can do better than the next those workforce deserves nothing less and our families deserve to have a strong sustainable professional workforce to support our 0 growing family care needs every care job has to be a good job and fortunately, this workforce is organizing to insure that that is the case were winning clapping. more than 20 years ago and right here in the bay area and cities around the country domestic folks starting coming together no Church Basements and centers around the country supporting one another and raising fund through selling food and organizing raffles today, we have 55 local affiliate organizations and 38 cities around the country their encourage and hard work has created a moment in history they are making history their encourage to step out of showed and into their power has led to policy victories with the package of Domestic Workers bill of rights at the state and municipal level. clapping. yes. Illinois just became the 7 state to pass a Domestic Workers bill of rights and were fighting in any other states asia municipals and thanks to the leadership of our president obama and the secretary of labor tom perps we brought 2 million home caregivers minimum wage out of 80 ners of exclusion a huge victory for working women. clapping. and right here in the great state i state of california the california Domestic Workers Coalition Won a bill of rights in 2013 but it has a sunset it is due to sunset and therefore this year and therefore in realtime right now as we speck there is a hearing tomorrow in fact our California Coalition is working around the clock to make sure the california legislative make our bill permanent law we need your support can we count on your support. clapping. none of our victories would have been possible without champions for the every women in the words of organize Environmental Impact statement we have lots of champions in this great state of california like julie and connie and calling names silva lopez they truly understand what it means for every women to win they said when our Solutions Gun from women working in the darkest roots of economy is helps to insure that our Solutions Include every women so ever women a achieve her fullest potential Domestic Workers provide a wonderful example how investing in women particularly woman of color and protecting women provides unique sighted into the solutions for the future putting us all ahead of the curve theres a famous saying the future is now it is just unevenly distributed i sometimes refer to Domestic Workers as the ultimate future theyre living the conditions long before a giga country lack of training and standards and lack of assess to benefits or job security those conditions used to be considered shadow working conditions as a margin of our Economy Today those conditions define more and more work in the American Economy between thirty and 50 he is percent of our workforce will be doing nontraditional work in the next decade temporary selfemployed independence contractor works the framework for works workers rights and labor standards and collective bargaining our safety net over and over social contract protects less and less of our workforce so we started to talking to workers in the giga economy some were domestic we designed principles in the care and throughout the out lying Community Together are a dozen Tech Companies we launched those as companies about r think about their platforms can say great places for the people that work there this is one example of how the examples of people like egd strengthen the conversation will the future of work and care in our economy everyone looking at the world through the eyes of Domestic Workers we often see the problems that we face the challenges we face and a new light in new ways to allows us to see solutions that truly do for ever women but we have a lot more work to side not just in terms of making those jobs good jobs major, major changes the way we live and work and care in this country changes that effect every woman. Longevity the decisional revolution the changes in the racial demographics this moment of change is actually a moment for Bold Solutions that both meet the current momentum and look ahead to what is coming as we make progress on really critical piece of policy like raising the minimum wage and establishing paid sick leave we must challenge ourselves to keep on thinking bigger and bolder the seeds for the new social contract are being planted as we speak big ideas like new solutions to our new realities are emerging everyday like universal basic income or popularity benefits we need to make sure those ideas protect and support every women and will elevate big ideas that truly change the game for women and families like universal chair mar and elderly care how about that. clapping. women must drive the conversation of the social contract especially the lowest income women have the least who as a turned out maybe the least visual are already changing the world around us we need all of our voices i was so happy to see that a big theme of todays summit is about taking pledges to take action so along with that theme i want to share a few opportunities to action. Call the governor and tell him you support of domestic bill of rights becoming permanent allow. clapping. second, womens organizations around the country are working together to make sure that every women is engaged in the democracy to set the agenda for that the new social contract 5 hundred Kitchen Table conversations with women about their experiences in the economy and getting feedback what are the policies well need to win in order to create Economic Opportunities for every women it is called we wont wait eye sign up to host a Kitchen Table conversation third, if youre employing a caregiver in your home take the fair care pledge pledging fair care together with the Employers Association hand in hand and care. Org we created to raise awareness for healthy employment in our homelism 200 thousand people are taken the pledge we hope you join them and finally, the Domestic Workers alliance caring across generations and care. Org we have launched a new coalition called who cares to bring attendance to the incredible economic and social value of care the value of care paid and unpaid the work that makes all other work possibly in our economy creating a care economy that allows everyone women and family to thrive is one of the single most important tasks of our time and it begins with each of us taken care of of ourselves taking care of our caregivers and getting involved in a movement to truly value care and the district of all work thank you so much. clapping. thank you so much that was wonderful are you enjoying the moreno pretty good; right . clapping. we have a lot more in store im share in a few minutes we break for lunch in you exit the hallway turn to our right a selection of two lunch options we urge to take our lunch to the break out room and share your thoughts and prepare for the break out framing those panels and discussions will begin a little 12 to 20 that is about hearing our voices and at the end well ask you to to post our ideas let us know the solutions youve come up with well collect a all of that for a post submit and answer and poll questioning question well share in the return in the lobby the pledge wall youll hear more about that if youre entitled we urge to make our pledge how you will move the world forward and libby schaaf will make a Small Business loan and help out someone like mentoring a young weve come a long way woman anything you think you can do beginning today to help to move the world forward we want to hear from you it is becoming a living representation of collective commitment we came up with to make a difference to for now ill say goodbye and see you right back hereafter the break out session thanks much. Blaej please welcome back well hello, again ladies and gentlemen, there are gentlemen in the audience how was will lunch your break out session good youve gotten all the solutions of worlds problem you worked out over lunch welcome back we if you were in the break out session we want to get our finger on the pulls of youre thinking we had i want to take a mom to look at participants in a couple of the sessions respond let us begin with the xrufr women we asked which do you believe should be the priority for the workplace for women elimination of hiring and proportion and review 36 percent and right after that strong networking followed by increasing the number of women in leadership and Flexible Work schedules and equal pay 5 percent some im surprised what happened . You wanted to be equally paid for your work dont you come on. Well related to pay i want to jump to the dollars and cents frost a strong fire chief session we indicated the attendees when personal finance but you believe are least understood by the bay area womens summit and the responses oh, thats a big, big jump investing in stock and properties so investment people of the were least understood and existing support including tax credits formed by retirement and zero for College Savings we understand what our kids need but permanent not understanding we we need for our own retirement we need to get on that in every session we asked you to express our opinion with the biggest challenge and the most pro tem solution youve heard of or thought of yourselves well be aggregating all the thoughts and ideas the result will be available post on the bay area womens summit website and this will be part of report we prepare coming out of the submit for mayor ed lee and mayor schaaf thank you, again for your compute and commitment and working together on this and without further ado, to open the Program Welcome back mr. Mayor, mayor ed lee in all right. Im still here with all of you how you all doing. Yeah. All right. Well, what an exciting speaker to have all morning really spiertsd me well get a lot of things done today im honored to introduce a champion for all woman president obama Senior Advisors and her role is inkumbaya if owing the office of Public Engagement and entering Government Affairs to chairing the White House Council on women and girls last week they hosted a white house submit the United States of women which brought together over 5 thousand women and girls from nationally to talk about the issues weve been discussing on our agenda today valerie fierce advocacy can be seen in the collaborative efforts with the timing working families agenda and being us being the first city to pay for 6 weeks of parental leave in the nation San Francisco is proud to be an exemplar model for paid leave clapping. her work on the Obama Administration has helped to improve the health and prosperity and income of middleincome and low income women across the country and her doesnt the to the Affordable Health care act has preferred women to Health Coverage like Preventive Health care and preservation and Family Services that is an honor to welcome to San Francisco a champion for women everywhere please welcome the honorable valerie got to give the mayor a hug where is she im back. Well he will valerie hello you look at terrific and work at the same place i have been on the Championship Campaign trail i want to talk about valerie if i can she is i think arguably the most powerful woman in washington. clapping. the president calls her a friend she lives a block away in chicago but in washington where reality is everything she has an office in a west wing and karl rove had that office and some woman that had that particular Office Wellness her name was hillary clinton. clapping. but what has she done with the power shes been central to the fight to raise minimum wage and criminal Justice Reform and chair of the council on women and girls and thats the start this little event call the United States of bay area womens summit yes last week it was amazing i hope you tuned in for that that was great so the obvious question whats the state of women thats a good question. I think the state of women in american is better than before what do i think i think it has that didnt mean we dont have along ways to go if you look at the history of 80 so many of women we stand we are doing better and better across the board but better so the purpose of submit last week to look at the progress weve made particularly over guess last 7 and a half years spins president obama has been in office and try to hold up best practices that weve learned as a result of our work over the last seven years and share those around the world global submit and then figure out what else can we do i was exist to talk to all of you what is the top of youre to do list. Well, one of the areas i am particularly frustrated were frustrated keep in mind the first bill that the president as i understand was the affairs act named after lilly. I that was at the white house shes there are for the bill signing what happened to literally i didnt she worked for a company for decades and no idea that she was paid less than ore counterparts this guy her buddy slipped her a note and sunshine said this is my pay she brought a lawsuit and went to the Supreme Court and lost the reason she lost because the way the law worked back then called the statute of limitations then have to have a case should didnt, she was discriminated against the law the president signed but even with that law passed women have still on this aribnb 0. 79 on this dollar and woman of color is less it was 0. 77 when the president s signed we need more legislation called the affair what is it called the bill important equal pay fairness thank you and what that does it prohibited employers from sdrooiment begins in the event you share your pay thats how you found out. It is interesting ive spent time on the campaign trail with Bernie Sanders the most commissioner hasz is he said women want the whole damn dollar and men in the audience men in the audience you want it for them two and the men go crazy now thats a particular kind of progressive audience; right . How important to get men and women to Work Together and make your case for the employer. Right this is a good question im s happy to see an audience full of women and a few men brave men have to be a part of conversation the reason it is important to men, women now comprise half hour the workforce working moms are the sole breadwinners in many households to the income is more important so those issues are important not only to the women but the family and the economy we have got to pull that wage gap well all be better off more money disposalable and spend that money and that creates more jobs good for the economy and businesses and women we are encouraging businesses to do is to just do a survey look at our books figure out whether or not youre paying people equally request a Asterisk Company is it fair to say and benioff presumed he was paying everyone equal and the employees said a were not and a 3 million skrerg we are challenging the employers to figure out whether or not youre paying equally if you pay equally in addition to being good for you the economy our workforce will be more loyal youre going to have less turnover that applies to the basket of working issue equals pay Workforce Flexibility and paid sick leave and paid. What about family and paid sick leave the president at the submit if you didnt go to it youll find it online and great videos one of the things the president s talked about the role of men and he said our policies are straight out of mad men that people agriculture straight out of stone age. It is ridiculous to think were the only Development Country the only one that didnt have a federal paid sick leave policy that is ridiculous we have children that get sick and parents and we get sick and does not have a National Requirements paid sick leave another bill the Health Families that requires every family for eligible for 7 days of paid sick leave if youre sick i dont want you in my office prep my food at the water cooler i mean stay home if you cant afford to stay home and 43 million americans dont have a single sick day theyre forced in the position between choosing between making a living they have to make and staying home and taking care of themselves they cant afford to lose a day pay and if they stay home they may get fired and locally were having a harder time competing for talent because everyone in the world and in new york a Great Company they now have 12 months of ma tenacity and maternity sick leave and dont have to taj mahal take it all at one time because in sweden 18 months to attract people to work at the companies they found out the private sector and the government right here with mayor ed lee are fourthly that there are a workforce would be more productive more efficient and loyal less turn over in the private sector more profitable if you invest in our workforce thats the challenge what is does it take for the 21st century workplace to reflect the needs and values of the 21st century worker this is different than the stone age. America is the only civilized destroy country that has sick and others like neugen i didnt and we dont want to be comprehensive with that. Companies cant afford that. Sure they can this is what we dispelled at the submit two years ago you hear maybe that is fine for the Big Companies like apple but the Smaller Companies cant afford we brought in a group of Small Businesses to talking to talk about the policies what i heard interestingly wont surprises some of us those empires care about the culture they know the family workers and someone child is sick or the parent is elderly or have the stresses outside of their home and care about the arithmetic of your workers they said it is an investment in that case itself over several fold we need to dispel the rumor you cant afford it what is better asset in a Global Warming comprehensive world planning than the human assets thats what you got you should have a round of applause. We know the role of government and how hard youve worked and the president pushed for them understanding that government a could not do everything and not get to where a lot of women feel they need to get to what do we do how about us people struggling to make ends meet or struggling with childcare or going to work sick what do you do. It is had a right we often talked about the fact disprorpgsz women are locking workers not choices you can speak up and have your voices heard. I want to interpret something you said you had a boss when you are that in Corporate Law that looked at you. Yes. I did. I was able to side things you wouldnt other wise and im always single mom when my daughter was growing up i needed flexibility with media eternity leave and partners with children a four months paid maternity policy that was enprecedent thirty years ago i take advantage of that policy i looked at people who were partners in the firm that take advantage of it a lot of Companies Might have a good policies but the culture you dont feel you can take advantage so i think that is really important 3 Companies Adopt those policies walk the walk so Mark Zuckerbergs takes a Maternity Leave and hes one of the most successful people i can go home and spend time with my child what were seeing more men are feeling a sense of responsibility to participate in the care giving that is good for the guys and recognizing that the Younger Generation will be healthy and more productive if we invest in that way so part of what you can do is to raise your voices if you can im not saying if you think you absolutely know your no a situation you cant say that that to your boss be partnering in sessions like in and vote for people that support this kind of practices you want thats the best form of citizenship the fact that unions only represent 7 perishes of private sector workforce that peoples voices are often unheard they dont have collective bargaining it is harder you feel this you feel power less but in a position i know a lot of women ive known that could have spoken up and didnt if you dont do it for yourselves do it for your colleagues. Im cancerous this is yet that deserves commissioner hasz commissioner hasz honestly how many of you are lucky enough to have a vacation dont take all their Vacation Time wow, wow so part of it operationally is on paper and part of it cultural rights part is okay what again, you look around. Ii think what i did on my Vacation Time the paid leave is different and right. We tried to do in the white house for example, you consecutive a high place to work we work around the clock but the president s sets the tone and cultural if you have a baby take our 3 months paid leave well save our spot when you come back you can hit the ground running and welcoming yesterday one of my top depths had a fever i was not happy we made her sit in siberia in the office but welcome to come in if she walked out in the middle of the meeting i want her to want to come to work shes threatened if they are baby is sick i know she didnt want to leave him bring him into the office keep him away from me. If you want to picture with barack obama bring your baby to the office. If you want to go online to google the obama babies youll see the babies in the overhead office. Thats a baby whisper the first lady holding a baby he takes the baby and the baby is silly and the look on her face is radio you kidding me how does that work this is a segue the smarter dinner you ever went to we wanted to figure out how valerie got to be valerie ive read about it you were looking to hire someone and her first maim was michelle she wanted to bring here fiance and his name was barack obama and that was 25 years ago. 25 years this month i think june. So i was mayor details chief of staff and worked in a law firm and took Maternity Leave it is miserable and said im going to get up and leave any baby and i honest was doing what my parents thought was great my family was proud i was moishlt itself left the beautiful offense in chicago and Lake Michigan and sail boats in the summer i went to work in city hall and my office turn out to be a urgent care news a hiring i loved my example four years later i left the Law Department i enjoyed and mayor promoted me i was looking at for nontalented people to staff the Mayors Office and someone sent me a write and said cant stand a law firm thats my person that was Michelle Robison and youre right i was in a 20 minute interview an hour later she mesmerized me she was saying let me get back to you a few days later we were talking about i said what do you think i was talking it over with when i if acy and she said would you be willing to have dinner with us we had a very long interesting dinner i got a sense of them individually and collectively i hope they got a sense of me in the end she worked for me, the rest is history. Well the rest is history. clapping. its been said this is an awkward question but what it was said you were the first person to see the police potential in him it was you all along said this is something you need to do beyond the community organizer. Oh. That would be a good thing to claim there are too many people my claim to family i tried to talk him out of returning for the u. S. Senate that didnt workout he didnt listen to anything 24 was a life lesson that he ran against congressman bobby rush and lost and a couple years ago later said he was thinking about running my first lady organized this and designed to talk him out of this race we were on script and the first day he said talk him out of running so the brunch not only absolutely i guess you should run laughter . Then he said youll not raise money. He said youll chair my finance committee i did at first tell him what if you allows. He said why are you afraid of failure if i losses ill try something else. I was busy warrior for him you have to be calculated but i did recognize to get some credit when i first met him, i remember thinking what an extremely young anyone mann who is trying to figure out mostly is how to make a difference and at that point didnt have any idea he was a lawyer not entered politics but i feel like given much and do something they wanted to do something in the Public Service i was heartened to see people that could start a company and in the private sector both be committed even at that early age to the public good i think this is a wonderful thing. As interventions that explicit workout the way. It did workout not the way i planned. Failure is an important thing ill tell you a quick story when i he was young on television and my boss said he was taking me off the air i didnt have it. I said well, what is it. He expected me to capri i said what it it. He said you dont have pa and now to months later i was gone you got the Corner Office and so that wasnt for you. There are different kinds of failure i dont like it word. I have in the middle of a divorce i thought i have hard on myself for reasons he cant understand all those years later we have to give ourselves a break it is okay to fail and this is not a reflection. How do you get through. You get up every single day and keep on trying i think; right . clapping. thats what you do and it is hard i dont want to sugar coat is divorce is one of the hardest things that was hard on me i state i married to the boy next door but my mother grew up with his mother and my grandmother with his grandmother what could go wrong with that situation . A lot it for a second me a a long time to come to terms and not feel that was a revenues on me it just didnt work and didnt have to be you know a value judgment on either one of him a value judgment on him but laughter . A little bit. laughter thats the father of our daughter were talking about. Terrible, terrible but my point to you youll say that bad things had happen if you dont fail at something youre not expanding beyond our comfort zone far enough im encouraging people to try and then when you fail that is a bit of is stereotype men tend to fail i didnt fail did i theyre back up and sometimes we fail you cant take it to heart you have to asking act like you did why shouldnt i be on tv turn out he was dead wrong but maybe something constructive to tell you you have to hear something that is painful and learn and try to do better thats what makes life on have you ever seen adventure first of all, the longevity is incredible i thought i worked hard until i went to the who have it is not 24 7 but 24 7 on stare resides the number of issues is haiti didnt didnt how do you do it for 7 and a half years do you sleep. clapping. sleep is over rated this is look purifying timing is everything we were talking earlier can you handle it all in life it depends on our leverage if you stand at your ended to take on this job my daughter was in law school im single i didnt have a lot of responsibilities other than myself and the president and first lady are two of my dearest friends that was as it goes as easy as circumstances to ago on and take on this Incredible Opportunity i love my job ive had jobs i didnt love and so it makes you treasure one you love more so and have the privilege of serving our country that is the greatest country on earth a 12r50er8d so i would be so upset if you were back home in chicago looking at what is happening in washington rather than being there and only 6 more months you can do anything for 6 more months. I want to ask about 6 more months thats the coolest thing you got to do whats the coolest thing. Ill tell you im not sure how to define cool. You got a certify that says. Youve been on air force one. One thing that was sxeerd i went to india with a letter from president obama to inclusive to the dolby latinamerican ma. In washington like my buddy with the dolby latinamerican ma. We were hanging out when he was 80 with a Huge Birthday Party this was a Diplomatic Mission i was kind to spend 2 1 2 hours talking about his life he returned from europe and in his late san jose and talking about the situation in china and hes a enjoy full spirit thats been living basically, all living in india in exile for 50 years and with a enjoy joyful spirit over the hill and plan and changes and automobiles but an unusual mission and it was one where the president was trying to signal something important i was the messenger it was really cool. clapping. i have to say ive seen you standing out where the point is coming out into the rose garden. So the president comes out to the rose garden youll see members of the staff when it is really big a Supreme Court decision about gay marriage you see the which can is ticking 6 more months i see a relax in the president and some of the Staff Members weve done there is also this idea that six months from now seven months from now the power you have goes away is there a pressure or something youll say please god let me get this done. There are a number of things on the bucket list that makes it magical every day im spending time on the criminal Justice System reform were trying so hard. clapping. thank you. Im so glad you feel that way it is so important we spend 80 billion a year on the criminal Justice System and have 5 percent of the worlds population and 25 percent of those krartsd 2. 2 Million People in prison and 70 Million People with a criminal backyard and problems in the community that creates a pathway they disproportionately effects people of color and minimum offenses for nonviolent offenses it is working its way im optimistic we have a coalition the aclu and coke brothers both working on something and bipartisan in Current System is unsustainable were trying to get that down or done but at the same time, were doing what we can to help people as they come out prepared to Enter Society 6 hundred thousand people are released and the best way to keep them from going back give them a job give them a job. clapping. im going to never be invited back we can talk to you forever i was struck at the end of the comment one of the last things the president said we have to tell your story before Michelle Obama or rosa parks or Billy Jean King what do you want people to takeaway whatever age or where every on the corporate ladder the part of your story. Well, i would have never been expecting to talk to you to the Senior Advisor of president president of the United States and not aspire high enough i want young people to know you can dont sell yourselves short and building in yourselves and give it the best and be open to changing pathways i think that everybody when i was younger had a Straight Path up ventured off that and left that Corner Office that was the harder thing i accident but particularly to young people you get a lot of advise i give out a lot of advise i can tell you a book full of advise maybe one day a book full of advise. You wont dish on the president and the first ladies. You dont dish on your friends if you, you do youre not a friend part of what i want young