“When I came out of Washington and the White House, I didn’t feel that there was really a glass ceiling in the administration … and Texas was very different,” she would later say in a 2011 panel discussion. She was the only woman in Goldman’s Houston office, and described fumbling with hunting lingo during conversations with male clients. In the “very traditional culture” where she lived, few of the women in their social circles had careers.
.. She began taking her husband — the accomplished attorney with Supreme Court war stories to spare — to dinners with male clients and colleagues. “He’s very useful to me and interesting to clients, so it always helps me to bring in more business when I bring him along,” she would tell an audience of Claremont’s aspiring female financiers in 2011.
.. She advised, too, that live-in help can be critical for working couples.
Female-Run Venture Capital Funds Alter the Status Quo
Over all, just 6 percent of partners at venture capital firms are women, according to the Diana Project at Babson College. That is even lower than in 1999, when 10 percent were female. And, according to another study of gender and venture capital, 77 percent of the firms have never had a female investor.
.. Venture capitalists are, in a way, the gatekeepers to Silicon Valley, and if they are a group of white men who studied at places like Stanford, it is no wonder that most of the entrepreneurs fit the same mold. Venture firms with women as partners are three times as likely to invest in a company with a female chief executive and twice as likely to invest in one with women on the management team, according to the Babson College report.
OIT: Bluestockings: Integrated Salons: both women and men
The Bluestockings were a small group of intellectual women in the 18th century who met regularly to discuss literature and other matters. They invited some of the leading thinkers of the day to take part in their informal salons. In an age when women were not expected to be highly educated, the Bluestockings were sometimes regarded with suspicion or even hostility. But prominent members such as Elizabeth Montagu and the classicist Elizabeth Carter were highly regarded for their scholarship. Their accomplishments led to far greater acceptance of women as the intellectual equal of men, and furthered the cause of female education. Melvyn Bragg is joined by Karen O’Brien, Vice-Principal and Professor of English at King’s College London; Elizabeth Eger, Reader in English Literature at King’s College London and Nicole Pohl, Reader in English Literature at Oxford Brookes University.(28-31 min) Elizabeth Montagu defended Shakespeare against Voltaire – retranslated Voltaire’s mistranslation to show that he didn’t understand the language. Women weren’t formally educated. Neither was Shakespeare; so we can understand him better.
(38 min) Reaction to the French Revolution turned people against women’s learning
Unplanned Births: Another Outcome of Economic Inequality?
Among the wealthiest women, only 11 percent of those who had sex reported not using contraception, for those in the poorest group the rate was more than twice as high.
.. According to the research, when it comes to reports of abortion, the most affluent group was more than three times as likely to have the procedure than the lowest-income group. Of women whose incomes were 400 percent greater than FPL or more, that’s about $47,000, 32 percent reported ending unintended pregnancies through abortion. For the group that falls at or below the poverty line, the figure was only 8.9 percent.