00:00Well, I do want to say, actually, you've been a financially independent woman your whole life.
00:05And while we're hearing about portfolio management, I mean, for you to have accomplished that and to be a homeowner
00:11coming out of your generation,
00:13that's something that we've talked about actually sitting in your home, which is now the centerpiece of the Gloria Foundation,
00:20which I think is an incredible purpose of the foundation, is to preserve the townhouse, which is where Ms. was
00:27formed.
00:28All of your incredible talking circles and organizing occurring in your home.
00:33But, you know, somebody had to pay the bills, Gloria, and I think it was you.
00:39You know, on that note with the foundation, actually, and I'm going to use this in a double word, you
00:46know, foundation,
00:47the things on which things are built, the Gloria Foundation.
00:52The centerpiece of that is your talking circles.
00:56And can you tell us a little bit about why it's so important for us as women to be in
01:02these personal moments with each other
01:04and also why the circle is important?
01:08I think the circle has always been historically important from the first Native Americans
01:14or the first peoples wherever we were in the world because it actually has a scientific base because we only
01:23generate oxytocin,
01:25which is what allows us to empathize, not just to learn intellectually,
01:32but to connect emotionally and from a human point of view if we are physically present.
01:38And I worry a little bit about high technology situations where we're not physically together.
01:46So I'm very grateful to you and to everybody who is in this room because oxytocin will triumph.
01:56I've got to tell you, I am on an oxytocin high right now.
01:59My head is exploding.
02:01I mean, you know, often what, you know, it's Women's History Month, okay,
02:06and it's, you know, it's been a challenging time for women.
02:11I'm going to call it the Great Recession, if I can.
02:15Well, Trump was not the ideal, at least speaking for myself.
02:24Yeah.
02:25Well, and we want to hear what you think.
02:27But, you know, I think that as we kind of look out forward,
02:31this is something that you've always focused on,
02:35where we're at a point in a moment where I think that a lot of us thought we'd never revisit.
02:40We're having to relitigate.
02:43Do we actually have full constitutional autonomy over our bodies?
02:48We are now, I think, Gen X.
02:51We are one of the first and largest to come into the workplace.
02:54So we kind of took on, I think, the front end of what pay and equity and promotion and equity
02:59could look like
03:00and how to kind of navigate that in a corporate setting.
03:05And at the same time as this millennial generation comes in,
03:09which are incredible young women bringing themselves into the labor force,
03:14there's an interesting sort of arc that's occurring,
03:16which is, hey, you come into the workplace and you're too young, you don't know so much.
03:21You have to wait and learn.
03:22And then you develop an expertise and it's like, slow down.
03:26Too big for your britches.
03:28And then as we click into, you know, our 50s, it's, hey, you're kind of starting to age out
03:33and losing your relevancy.
03:36And I'm wondering how sisterhood is the antidote to that,
03:43where we can all come together in that talking circle in a shared moment
03:48where we understand the nature of this systemic issue that we're facing in sexism.
03:56Well, we need to think about the nature of our talking circles first.
04:01I mean, do our talking circles of women look like women in the country?
04:07Are we excluding some groups inadvertently?
04:12I mean, we learn from difference, not sameness.
04:16So it's a gift to have different experience, different groups, different races,
04:22different ethnicities in the same group.
04:25And that's something that we can do ourselves.
04:29Then there's the question of democracy and is it getting born in our families?
04:37Are, if there are men in our families, which probably there are,
04:42are they equally responsible for children, for getting up in the middle of the night,
04:51for, you know, whatever it is in terms of domestic duties,
04:56because that is what allows them to be whole human beings
05:01and allows young people to see that there is not a gender prison,
05:10you know, that we're all human beings.
05:12So, let's get started.
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