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Seneca Women's Ambassador Verveer on Economic Progress (Audio) · Bloomberg Intelligence

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Taking Stock with Bim Box and Kathleen
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  Speaker 1: Hays on Bluebird Radio. In twenty fifteen, female full time
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  Speaker 1: workers made only seventy nine cents for every dollar earned
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  Speaker 1: by men. That equates to a gender wage gap of
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  Speaker 1: twenty one per cent. Women on average earn less than
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  Speaker 1: men in virtually every single occupation for which there is
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  Speaker 1: sufficient earnings data for both men and women in order
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  Speaker 1: to calculate this ratio, and here to tell us more
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  Speaker 1: about the progress that women are enjoying and continue to
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  Speaker 1: build for themselves is Ambassador Milan Vervier. Ambassador Vervia is
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  Speaker 1: a co founder and executive director of Georgetown University's Institute
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  Speaker 1: for Women, Peace and Security, and as a note, she
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  Speaker 1: was appointed by President Obama to be the first ever
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  Speaker 1: ambassad that are at large for global women's issues at
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  Speaker 1: the U. S. State Department. Ambassador Revere, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: being with us. It's a pleasure. Thank you. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: want to just note there are a couple of anniversaries
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  Speaker 1: which seem to have not necessarily hit the headlines, and
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  Speaker 1: one was last week. Would you like to tell us
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  Speaker 1: about the nineteenth Amendment? Well, the nineteenth Amendment is the
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  Speaker 1: amendment that gave women in the United States the right
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  Speaker 1: to vote. Uh. Actually it's August. Uh, so we're nearing
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  Speaker 1: the day. And when you look back at those almost
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  Speaker 1: one hundred years, we have indeed made a great deal
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  Speaker 1: of progress in the United States, but as you pointed out,
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  Speaker 1: in terms of the wage gap and so much more,
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  Speaker 1: we still have a way to go. The Seneca Falls
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  Speaker 1: Convention took place many years before the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified.
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  Speaker 1: Many people might not know about that particular event. Tell us, well,
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  Speaker 1: it was the first equal rights convention in the United
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  Speaker 1: States where women and men. And I think it's important
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  Speaker 1: to say that women's progress is about progress for everyone,
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  Speaker 1: and men are a big part of that effort. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And about a third of the participants in Seneca Falls
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  Speaker 1: were men. Uh. And they came together to really work
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  Speaker 1: and create a bill of particulars, if you will, uh,
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  Speaker 1: to move forward for equal rights for women in this country. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that's been a long time ago. We've come a long
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  Speaker 1: way in the process, but we're still on a journey
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  Speaker 1: in this country, and certainly women around the world are
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  Speaker 1: still on a journey for full equal rights. Yes, that
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  Speaker 1: Seneca Falls Convention was held in July of eighteen forty eight.
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  Speaker 1: Now you are also the co author with Kim as
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  Speaker 1: a reli of Fast Forward How Women can Achieve Power
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  Speaker 1: and Purpose? Can you give us some examples of how
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  Speaker 1: how women are using the tools that are available or
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  Speaker 1: creating their own tools in order to bridge that wage
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  Speaker 1: gap that I described well, The thesis of the book
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  Speaker 1: is really to put forward the fact UH that fast
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  Speaker 1: forwarding women and girls enabling them to advance fully, whether
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  Speaker 1: in the economies of the country or in various social
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  Speaker 1: ways access to education, healthcare, etcetera, that all of this
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  Speaker 1: is critical to creating a better world, and corporations and
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  Speaker 1: governments increasingly are recognizing this. UH. There is an evidence
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  Speaker 1: base case today as there was not U before. UH.
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  Speaker 1: Data from all kinds of sources, multilateral organizations, governments, the
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  Speaker 1: private sector, from the World Economic Form to the World
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  Speaker 1: Bank UH are is demonstrating that UH. Today we know
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  Speaker 1: that women's economic participation, for example, is absolutely crucial for
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  Speaker 1: econ comic growth, for jobs creation, for inclusive prosperity. We know, UM,
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  Speaker 1: if we're companies that if we diversify our workplace, if
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  Speaker 1: we put women into upper management and boards of directors,
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  Speaker 1: that our bottom line is going to be better that
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  Speaker 1: increasingly this is about not just the moral imperative that
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  Speaker 1: it is, but that it is the smart thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: And for businesses, it's about business performance. It's about the
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  Speaker 1: bottom line. And in the book we point out how
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  Speaker 1: more and more companies and women in companies who are
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  Speaker 1: rising to UH positions with authority are making a difference
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  Speaker 1: to recognize this evidence space case and to move their
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  Speaker 1: their their companies forward and the process also to move
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  Speaker 1: women forward UH wherever they are in business. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: just want to note that in addition to co authoring
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  Speaker 1: the book with Kim Azzarelli, you have both founded Seneca
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  Speaker 1: Point Global. What is Seneca Point Global? And maybe you
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  Speaker 1: can transition there to tell us about the glass ceiling
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  Speaker 1: that exists in politics and business. What's the state of
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  Speaker 1: that glass ceiling? Well, Seneca Point Global. Obviously, Seneca is
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  Speaker 1: from the what we talked about a little earlier, the
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  Speaker 1: Seneca Falls Equal Rights Convention and that urgency that continues
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  Speaker 1: to be with us UH and it's an effort to
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  Speaker 1: fast forward, if you will, UH women and girls globally
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  Speaker 1: to create a better world and to create the kinds
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  Speaker 1: of outcomes UH in terms of economic and social progress
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  Speaker 1: that I think we all want to see. But the
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  Speaker 1: reality is we are still up against call it a
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  Speaker 1: glass ceiling, call it barriers of one kind or another. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Whether they're in in legal frameworks, whether there are parts
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  Speaker 1: of mindsets, whether they're stereotypes, whatever, there is still a
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  Speaker 1: set of hurdles UH. In some places bigger hurdles and
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  Speaker 1: other places as lower hurdles that have to be overcome.
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  Speaker 1: In in terms of the World Economic Form, I think
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  Speaker 1: is a good measure because it puts out an annual
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  Speaker 1: gender gap report and what they show in that report
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  Speaker 1: as they look at at countries in terms of the
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  Speaker 1: gap between men and women's equality in certain areas economic participation,
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  Speaker 1: access to health, et cetera, political participation, and where that
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  Speaker 1: gap is closer to being closed, those economies are far
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  Speaker 1: more competitive and there's a great deal more progress for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Ambassador Milan Vervier, the co founder
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