Showing posts with label Gates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gates. Show all posts

Saturday, January 30, 2010

What would happen if we turned our thinking upside down and:

  • Oprah gave all of her billions to journalist and women’s rights crusader William Kristof to spend on projects to help women?
  • Bill Gates announced that the other half of his foundations’ billions not devoted to vaccines henceforth would go to projects to help women and girls?
  • Every member of the NBA making over one million dollars a year made a public service spot against domestic violence or rape and paid to air it on TV shows aimed at the young male demographic?
  • The U.S. ratified the international treaty banning gender discrimination, the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)?
  • The Federal government and all companies and organizations receiving federal funds were required to offer flexible workplace policies and reduced schedule options to all employees?
  • The U.S. went from seventy-fourth in world rankings of women’s percentages in national legislatures, where it is in the company of Albania and Turkmenistan, to fourth?