Ladies, it's been a while since I've seen this video but it came to mind recently and I wanted to share it with you. Isabel Allende, author of The House of the Spirits, talks about the importance of women in this TED talk from 2007. She's right - we have a lot of work to do in changing the position of women all over the world. But if we keep "feminism" in mind, in even the smallest things we do, well, I think that's a pretty good start.
"The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.Yet this obvious truth is ignored by governments,and also by philanthropy. For every dollar given to a women's program, 20 dollars are given to men's programs. Women are 51 percent of humankind.Empowering them will change everything -- more than technology and design and entertainment. I can promise you that women working together --linked, informed and educated -- can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet. In any war today, most of the casualties are civilians, mainly women and children. They are collateral damage.Men run the world, and look at the mess we have."
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