Vision 2020, Anna Quindlen, and Suffrage
The lovely folks at Drexel University have taken on a massive undertaking, and it launches today, the 90th anniversary of women winning the right to vote. “Vision 2020” will start with a conversation/conference around the issues of women and leadership. Delegates will convene on Philadelphia, talk about best practices, and then return home with a specific mission and plan to help women break through the glass ceiling/detach themselves from the sticky floor. By 2020, they hope, the landscape for women in America will be radically different, and the promise of suffrage will finally be achieved.
As part of the project, they’re inviting people to write “equality insights,” or thoughts on what should happen in the next decade, and they invited us to contribute. The result is here.
But our favorite? The amazing Anna Quindlen, who writes, in part, that:
There’s been a fire in the belly that that pushback breeds, a willingness to step off that treadmill of custom. It’s created a new breed: the Inside Outsiders. Powerful, accomplished, yet among their male peers still in some essential way apart. Often you will hear them say, “I never expected to wind up here.” That’s been a good thing, and I hope it will continue among new generations of women whose expectations of position and privilege are more optimistic. For whatever reason, we women may be inclined to run things in a different way, at a time when a different way is badly needed.
Yes. Any “insights” to offer? Tell us. What do you hope changes most in the next decade?
