The Future of Equality in Business, Technology and Innovation.

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The buzz: “The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes (Bella Abzug). Organizations from the UN to university clubs have been trying to secure a world of equality in business for years. Initiatives like the UN Women Global Innovation Coalition for Change (GICC), WiDS and FQ (Female Quotient) have created a vast ecosystem matrix focused on creating change. But how and where is it happening? In honor of International Women’s Day, our panel will discuss where things stand and what is needed to accelerate change. The experts speak. Anita Varshney, SAP: “Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun (Muhammed Yunus). Shelley Zalis, The Female Quotient: “Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman” (Coco Chanel). Judy Logan, Women In Data Science, Stanford Univ.: “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames” (Rumi). Join us for The Future of Equality in Business, Technology and Innovation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the most nutritious hour of business talk all week.
0:13.1	This is Coffee Break with Game Changers, presented by SAP.
0:17.1	The best run business is run SAP.
0:19.6	Your host and moderator is Bonnie D. Graham.
0:22.1	You'll hear from the innovators who have learned to use game-changing technologies to shake up the status quo and help move today's businesses in new directions.
0:29.9	Now, here's Bonnie D. Graham.
0:32.3	Welcome, welcome, welcome.
0:33.9	If you want to run with the game changers, oh come on, you already know you're in the right
0:37.7	place because this is where the best run. Very interesting show today, I promise. You will want to
0:44.3	stay on for the whole hour and listen up. The buzz on the street is a quote from Bella Abzug.
0:49.7	I'm old enough to remember who she was, lady with a lot of hats, known as battling Bella.
0:55.3	She lived from 1920 to 1998.
0:57.7	She missed this whole social media era.
1:00.0	Bella Savitsky Abzug was an American lawyer, U.S. representative, social activist, and a leader of the women's movement.
1:08.3	She joined forces with feminists, including Gloria Steinem. Come on, you all know
1:11.9	these names, Shirley Chisholm, and Betty Friedan to found the National Women's Political Caucus.
1:16.9	And her first one of her campaign slogans was, this woman's place is in the House, the House of
1:21.9	Representatives. So I found a different quote. Listen up, everyone. The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be
1:30.2	the arrangement of your chromosomes. Just let that sink in. We're talking about, yes, we are,
1:36.3	male versus female chromosomes and everything in between. So what are we talking about today?
1:41.6	Organizations from the UN to small university clubs scattered around the
1:46.5	country around the world have been trying to secure a world of equality in business for years.
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