It's time to rethink the position of First Lady | Irina Karamanos Adrian

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🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Irina Karamanos Adrian didn't plan on becoming Chile's First Lady — but she set out to transform the role all the same. She shares how she's fighting gender stereotypes and protecting democracy by shifting political power back to where it belongs: to people who were actually elected.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	It's Ted Talks Daily.
0:10.0	It's Ted Talks Daily.
0:11.0	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:12.0	Is being a First Lady, the spouse of a Ted Talks Daily, I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:12.7	Is being a First Lady, the spouse of a country's leader,
0:15.9	incompatible with feminism?
0:18.3	This is attention that Irena Karamanos Adrian
0:21.1	lived out as the former First lady of Chile. She explores it in what she
0:25.9	learned from her experience in her engaging talk from the TED Women 2023 stage. of what makes us tick. I'm an organizational psychologist and I'm taking you inside the
0:45.2	minds of fascinating people to explore how they think and what we should all rethink.
0:51.6	This season we're rethinking resilience with historian and author Tara Westover.
0:55.6	I think it can be a lot to ask individuals to be resilient all the time.
1:00.3	I'm not sure that individuals can always be resilient, but I do think communities can be and I do think countries can be that there can be an environment that we create where if people work hard they can do well.
1:13.0	Find and follow rethinking with Adam Grant wherever you're listening.
1:17.0	In 2021, Gabriel Borich became the elected president of Chile.
1:27.0	He was one of the youngest worldwide and one of the most voted in the country's history.
1:35.0	He was supported by a political party called
1:38.0	Convergensia Social.
1:40.0	And by the time of the election,
1:42.0	I was in charge of the feminist front of that party.
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