Hey, note to self listeners. It's Manu Shear. We've got a little bonus episode for you this week.

Okay, but first a riddle. Who is probably the only person in the world who can talk simultaneously

about global equality, her breastfeeding schedule, and how her kids' grandpa used to be president?

It's Chelsea Clinton. I got to chat with her recently at a gathering of nonprofits and

philanthropists at the Clinton Global Initiative here in New York. And we were both there to talk

about global connectivity and how tech can, if we use it right, level the economic playing field.

The only difference between us is that my mom is not running for president. That's why I was interviewing her.

In any case, Chelsea has been collecting and analyzing data and stories about women, girls,

and tech in developing countries to understand how learning to code and getting digital access

can not only give them a chance to work, but to choose the life that they want to live.

So she's doing all this in addition to having two babies and being on the campaign trail.

Here's our conversation. You've been doing some really fascinating research into gender and tech

and really scaling opportunity. Can you tell me some of the data that you've dug up?

Sure. So in partnership with the Gates Foundation at the Clinton Foundation, we launched a

thing called No Ceilings of Full of Participation Project. And we gathered just under a million

unique data points across every question we could think of that would highlight where girls and

women really have made progress in terms of our inclusion in our participation and where we haven't

made progress in the last couple of decades. And not surprisingly, an area that we all pay a lot

of attention to that is important to all of our lives, increasingly around the world is technology.

And so we looked at kind of the question of women in technology and a lot of different

dimensions. So kind of around the world, do women have access to the same technologies as men?

And the answer is no. And that's actually one of the areas where we've lost progress over my

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