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 t
google the obama babies you ll see the babies in the overhead office. that s 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 i ve 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 i m 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 fo
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 in
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 that s 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 i m 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 we ll 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 you re paying people e