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Women’s empowerment events need to take a different approach.
The pancakes and waffles were the last straw.
News broke recently about a 2018 “Power-Presence-Purpose” event for women executives at Ernst & Young where, among other sexist lessons, attendees were told that women’s brains were like pancakes, but men’s were like waffles: “Women’s brains absorb information like pancakes soak up syrup so it’s hard for them to focus” while men’s “brains are more like waffles. They’re better able to focus because the information collects in each little waffle square.”
Around the same time as the “pancakes vs waffles” story, former US Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen spoke at Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women Summit. Nielsen implemented and defended the Trump Administration’s family separation policy, which involved putting children in cages in detention centres along the border. As a protest sign outside the summit venue put it: “Powerful women don’t put kids in cages.” (I would have thought that was obvious.)
Read More: https://www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles/law/opinion/2019/focus-on-improving-our-communities
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