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 workpla
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
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 so 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