EXCERPT:
SIEBEL NEWSOM: “Well, let me just anchor why I’m here with the fact that this is a crisis. Gender equity has stalled. We know that the World Economic Forum came out with a report that we will not achieve gender equity for 131 more years and we won’t achieve gender pay equity for 257 more years. So this is insane. So you know, if we think about what’s happening in our world with geopolitical instability, a political divide, mental health, climate crisis, extreme wealth inequality, part of that I strongly believe, and I have, you know, data to back it up, is that we haven’t had diverse enough folks, in particular women, seated at the tables of power making decisions when it comes to both the private and public sectors. And so if we can move more women into leadership, more of a care orientation into leadership, we will fix some of these seemingly insurmountable global problems that we’re all confronted with today.”