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
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 an
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