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Women Have Power: Let’s Hear Them

Posted on November 3, 2020January 18, 2022by JC Agid1 Comment

Women Have Power: Let’s Hear Them
A conversation with Alyse Nelson, President and co-Founder of Vital Voices for Global Partnership. Co-editor of Vital Voices: 100 Women to Empower Other Women (Assouline)

Forget for a moment Joe Biden’s victory as President-elect and Donald Trump’s struggles with defeat, one of the main news from the 2020 American Presidential election is Senator Kamala Harris. For the first time in history, a woman—a Black, Asian woman—will become the first female Vice President of the United States. Harris will also rank first in line to succeed Joe Biden as President.

Besides the election of Kamala Harris, women seem to have taken center political stage whether it is in the United States or on the opposite side of the world.

Women actually played a key role in the 2020 American elections a mere 100 years after the 19th amendment of the American Constitution granting women’s suffrage was passed. Fast forward to 2020, 57% of women—and among them 90% of Black women—chose the Democratic candidate over the incumbent President, according to NBC News. Women also voted more than men (52%). In other words, they decided the Presidential outcome and chose Joe Biden although Donald Trump increased his base of white women voters.

Ahead of the Presidential election, another woman, Justice Amy Coney Barrett also made history and became the only the fifth woman to sit on the United States Supreme Court in 230 years. A woman Justice has replaced another one. While it surely seems to be a positive step for women’s empowerment and gender equality, succession might not be as simple as just having a woman leader succeeding another one. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the American champion of women’s rights; based on the 48-year old Justice Barrett’s past judicial positions show, the new Justice is not.

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Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Culture, Fire Chat With, Gender Issues, Mujeres, Women can have it all, Women Empowerment
Tagged Alyse Nelson, Amanda Gorman, Amanda N'Guyen, Amy Coney Barrett, Assouline, Diane Von Furstenberg, DVF, Gayle Kabaker, Habiba Ali, Hillary Clinton, Jacinda Ardern, Joe biden, kamala harris, Martine Assouline, Melanne Verveer, Rouba Mhaissen, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Saskia Nino de Rivera, Seven, susan collins, Tina brown, Vital Voices, Vital Voices for Global partnership, Vital Voices: 100 Women Using Their Power to Empower, Women's Forum for the Economy and Society

One Hundred Women to Inspire Us to Change

Posted on September 14, 2020September 21, 2020by JC AgidLeave a comment

One Hundred Women to Inspire Us to Change
Vital Voices: 100 Women Using Their Power to Empower (Assouline)


On September 6, 2020, French philosopher Elisabeth Badinter wrote an editorial in Le Journal du Dimanche, one of France’s main Sunday’s paper to denounce a dangerous post #metoo radical neo-feminism, which she says transforms all women into victims and all men into presumed aggressors. At the same moment in the United States, Assouline and the American foundation Vital Voices published a groundbreaking book with 100 portraits and texts of women ‘using their power to empower.’

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exceptions.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, lawyer and former Justice, United States Supreme Court


Their names are Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG passed away a few days after this article was published), Melinda Gates, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Bachelet, Geena Davis and Jacinda Ardern. Some have led countries, some head a foundation, one is a US Senator, while another is one of the most powerful judges in the United States. The book also features Panmela Castro, Xiye Bastida, Yin Myo Su, Hindu Oumarou Ibrahim, Andeisha Farid, Amani Ballour, and Tarana Burke. Less known in the Western media, they too run foundations, corporations, paint large murals, engage in politics, and transform the healthcare delivery landscape of their communities.


There are 100 of them in this book edited by Alyse Nelson, President and co-founder of Vital Voices Global Partnerships, along with Hillary Rodham Clinton, Melanne Verveer, and Madeleine Albright. This Washington-based non for-profit organization works with women in 182 countries to help them become professionally empowered, visible and heard. One hundred portraits painted by Gayle Kabaker, one of the greatest American illustrators, known especially for her New Yorker covers. One hundred women who share their visions, their ambitions, and raise their voices. They could be a thousand, a hundred thousand, millions. In fact, these 100 women leaders, activists, lawyers, politicians, entrepreneurs, diplomats, financiers, biologists, journalists, athletes and artists are de facto ambassadors of half of the world’s population.

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Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Gender Issues, Mujeres, Uncategorized, Women can have it all, Women Empowerment, Women Entrepreneurs, Women in Africa, Women in Mexico
Tagged Alyse Nelson, Amanda Gorman, Assouline, Christine Lagarde, Diane Von Furstenberg, DVF, Gayle Kabaker, Hafsat abiola, Hillary Clinton, Jacinda Adern, Lucha Libre, Madeleine Albright, Martine Assouline, Melanne Verveer, Panmela Castro, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sara blakely, Saskia Niño de Rivera, Saskia Nino de Rivera, spanx, Vital Voices, Vital Voices for Global partnership, Vital Voices: 100 Women Using Their Power to Empower, WIA, WIAphilanthropy, Women in Africa

A Hug to Humanity

Posted on July 24, 2019February 10, 2022by JC Agid2 Comments

A Hug to Humanity


Fire-chat with Saskia Niño de Rivera, founder of Reinserta in Mexico

Saskia Niño de Rivera was the first of the Vital Voices Gala evening’s honorees to walk back on stage at Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center Opera on April  24th, 2019.

The Mexican activist went straight to Hillary Clinton, and without hesitation, hugged the former Secretary of State and co-founder of Vital Voices, a global foundation launched in 1997 to support women who advance economic opportunity, increase political and public engagement, end gender-based violence and promote human rights across 180 countries and territories.

A few moments before, the audience saw a video of children playing in Lucha Libre disguises (the famous masked Mexican wrestlers). One them, drawing, is heard wishing: “I want to go to the zoo; when I am big, I want to be a fireman; and when I am really big–yeah–if I am really big, I will be The Hulk.” 

A childhood fantasy, indeed, except this child cannot even go to a zoo. This child is one the 700 children born and raised in a Mexican jail.

 

Saskia Nino de Rivera and Hillary Clinton | (c) Lancer Photography | 2019
Saskia Niño de Rivera and Hillary Clinton | (c) Lancer Photography | 2019

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Posted in Byline JC Agid, Fire Chat With, Mexico, Mujeres, Women Empowerment, Women in Mexico
Tagged Alyse Nelson, Amanda N'Guyen, bozoma saint john, Children, Diane Von Furstenberg, Firechat, Habiba Ali, Hillary Clinton, Imprisoned Women, Kennedy Center, Melanne Verveer, Mexican jails, Reinserta, Rising TAlents, Rouba Mhaissen, Saskia Nino de Rivera, Vital Voices, Vital Voices for Global partnership, Washington DC

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