Hanna Rosin: New data on the rise of women

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We are now going through an amazing and unprecedented moment
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where the power dynamics between men and women
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are shifting very rapidly,
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and in many of the places where it counts the most,
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women are, in fact, taking control of everything.
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In my mother's day, she didn't go to college.
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Not a lot of women did.
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And now, for every two men who get a college degree,
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three women will do the same.
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Women, for the first time this year,
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became the majority of the American workforce.
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And they're starting to dominate lots of professions --
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doctors, lawyers,
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bankers, accountants.
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Over 50 percent of managers are women these days,
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and in the 15 professions
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projected to grow the most in the next decade,
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all but two of them are dominated by women.
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So the global economy is becoming a place
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where women are more successful than men,
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believe it or not,
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and these economic changes
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are starting to rapidly affect our culture --
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what our romantic comedies look like,
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what our marriages look like,
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what our dating lives look like,
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and our new set of superheroes.
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For a long time, this is the image of American manhood that dominated --
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tough, rugged,
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in control of his own environment.
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A few years ago, the Marlboro Man was retired
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and replaced by this
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much less impressive specimen,
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who is a parody of American manhood,
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and that's what we have in our commercials today.
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The phrase "first-born son"
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is so deeply ingrained in our consciousness
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that this statistic alone shocked me.
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In American fertility clinics,
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75 percent of couples
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are requesting girls and not boys.
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And in places where you wouldn't think,
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such as South Korea, India and China,
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the very strict patriarchal societies
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are starting to break down a little,
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and families are no longer
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strongly preferring first-born sons.
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If you think about this, if you just open your eyes to this possibility
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and start to connect the dots,
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you can see the evidence everywhere.
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You can see it in college graduation patterns,
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in job projections,
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in our marriage statistics,
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you can see it in the Icelandic elections, which you'll hear about later,
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and you can see it on South Korean surveys on son preference,
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that something amazing and unprecedented
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is happening with women.
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Certainly this is not the first time that we've had great progress with women.
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The '20s and the '60s also come to mind.
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But the difference is that, back then,
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it was driven by a very passionate feminist movement
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that was trying to project its own desires,
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whereas this time, it's not about passion,
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and it's not about any kind of movement.
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This is really just about the facts
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of this economic moment that we live in.
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The 200,000-year period
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in which men have been top dog
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is truly coming to an end, believe it or not,
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and that's why I talk about the "end of men."
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Now all you men out there,
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this is not the moment where you tune out or throw some tomatoes,
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because the point is that this
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is happening to all of us.
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I myself have a husband and a father
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and two sons whom I dearly love.
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And this is why I like to talk about this,
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because if we don't acknowledge it,
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then the transition will be pretty painful.
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But if we do take account of it,
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then I think it will go much more smoothly.
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I first started thinking about this about a year and a half ago.
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I was reading headlines about the recession just like anyone else,
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and I started to notice a distinct pattern --
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that the recession was affecting men
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much more deeply than it was affecting women.
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And I remembered back to about 10 years ago
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when I read a book by Susan Faludi
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called "Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man,"
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in which she described how hard the recession had hit men,
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and I started to think about
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whether it had gotten worse this time around in this recession.
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And I realized that two things were different this time around.
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The first was that
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these were no longer just temporary hits
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that the recession was giving men --
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that this was reflecting a deeper
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underlying shift in our global economy.
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And second, that the story was no longer
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just about the crisis of men,
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but it was also about what was happening to women.
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And now look at this second set of slides.
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These are headlines about what's been going on with women in the next few years.
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These are things we never could have imagined a few years ago.
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Women, a majority of the workplace.
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And labor statistics: women take up most managerial jobs.
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This second set of headlines --
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you can see that families and marriages are starting to shift.
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And look at that last headline --
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young women earning more than young men.
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That particular headline comes to me from a market research firm.
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They were basically asked by one of their clients
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who was going to buy houses in that neighborhood in the future.
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And they expected that it would be young families,
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or young men, just like it had always been.
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But in fact, they found something very surprising.
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It was young, single women
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who were the major purchasers of houses in the neighborhood.
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And so they decided, because they were intrigued by this finding,
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to do a nationwide survey.
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So they spread out all the census data,
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and what they found, the guy described to me as a shocker,
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which is that in 1,997
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out of 2,000 communities,
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women, young women,
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were making more money than young men.
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So here you have a generation of young women
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who grow up thinking of themselves
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as being more powerful earners
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than the young men around them.
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Now, I've just laid out the picture for you,
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but I still haven't explained to you why this is happening.
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And in a moment, I'm going to show you a graph,
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and what you'll see on this graph --
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it begins in 1973,
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just before women start flooding the workforce,
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and it brings us up to our current day.
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And basically what you'll see
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is what economists talk about
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as the polarization of the economy.
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Now what does that mean?
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It means that the economy is dividing into high-skill, high-wage jobs
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and low-skill, low-wage jobs --
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and that the middle, the middle-skill jobs,
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and the middle-earning jobs, are starting to drop out of the economy.
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This has been going on for 40 years now.
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But this process is affecting men
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very differently than it's affecting women.
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You'll see the women in red, and you'll see the men in blue.
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You'll watch them both drop out of the middle class,
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but see what happens to women and see what happens to men.
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There we go.
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So watch that. You see them both drop out of the middle class.
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Watch what happens to the women. Watch what happens to the men.
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The men sort of stagnate there,
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while the women zoom up in those high-skill jobs.
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So what's that about?
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It looks like women got some power boost on a video game,
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or like they snuck in some secret serum into their birth-control pills
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that lets them shoot up high.
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But of course, it's not about that.
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What it's about is that the economy has changed a lot.
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We used to have a manufacturing economy,
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which was about building goods and products,
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and now we have a service economy
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and an information and creative economy.
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Those two economies require very different skills,
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and as it happens, women have been much better
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at acquiring the new set of skills than men have been.
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It used to be that you were
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a guy who went to high school
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who didn't have a college degree,
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but you had a specific set of skills,
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and with the help of a union,
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you could make yourself a pretty good middle-class life.
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But that really isn't true anymore.
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This new economy is pretty indifferent
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to size and strength,
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which is what's helped men along all these years.
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What the economy requires now
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is a whole different set of skills.
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You basically need intelligence,
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you need an ability to sit still and focus,
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to communicate openly,
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to be able to listen to people
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and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be,
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and those are things that women do extremely well,
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as we're seeing.
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If you look at management theory these days,
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it used to be that our ideal leader
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sounded something like General Patton, right?
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You would be issuing orders from above.
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You would be very hierarchical.
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You would tell everyone below you what to do.
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But that's not what an ideal leader is like now.
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If you read management books now,
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a leader is somebody who can foster creativity,
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who can get his -- get the employees -- see, I still say "his" --
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who can get the employees to talk to each other,
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who can basically build teams and get them to be creative.
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And those are all things that women do very well.
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And then on top of that, that's created a kind of cascading effect.
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Women enter the workplace at the top,
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and then at the working class,
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all the new jobs that are created
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are the kinds of jobs that wives used to do for free at home.
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So that's childcare,
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elder care and food preparation.
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So those are all the jobs that are growing,
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and those are jobs that women tend to do.
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Now one day it might be
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that mothers will hire an out-of-work,
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middle-aged, former steelworker guy
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to watch their children at home,
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and that would be good for the men, but that hasn't quite happened yet.
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To see what's going to happen, you can't just look at the workforce that is now,
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you have to look at our future workforce.
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And here the story is fairly simple.
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Women are getting college degrees
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at a faster rate than men.
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Why? This is a real mystery.
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People have asked men, why don't they just go back to college,
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to community college, say, and retool themselves,
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learn a new set of skills?
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Well it turns out that they're just very uncomfortable doing that.
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They're used to thinking of themselves as providers,
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and they can't seem to build the social networks
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that allow them to get through college.
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So for some reason
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men just don't end up going back to college.
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And what's even more disturbing
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is what's happening with younger boys.
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There's been about a decade of research
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about what people are calling the "boy crisis."
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Now the boy crisis is this idea
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that very young boys, for whatever reason,
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are doing worse in school than very young girls,
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and people have theories about that.
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Is it because we have an excessively verbal curriculum,
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and little girls are better at that than little boys?
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Or that we require kids to sit still too much,
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and so boys initially feel like failures?
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And some people say it's because,
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in 9th grade, boys start dropping out of school.
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Because I'm writing a book about all this, I'm still looking into it,
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so I don't have the answer.
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But in the mean time, I'm going to call on the worldwide education expert,
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who's my 10-year-old daughter, Noa,
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to talk to you about
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why the boys in her class do worse.
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(Video) Noa: The girls are obviously smarter.
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I mean they have much larger vocabulary.
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They learn much faster.
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They are more controlled.
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On the board today for losing recess tomorrow, only boys.
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Hanna Rosin: And why is that?
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Noa: Why? They were just not listening to the class
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while the girls sat there very nicely.
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HR: So there you go.
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This whole thesis really came home to me
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when I went to visit a college in Kansas City --
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working-class college.
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Certainly, when I was in college, I had certain expectations about my life --
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that my husband and I would both work,
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and that we would equally raise the children.
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But these college girls
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had a completely different view of their future.
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Basically, the way they said it to me is
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that they would be working 18 hours a day,
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that their husband would maybe have a job,
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but that mostly he would be at home taking care of the kiddies.
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And this was kind of a shocker to me.
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And then here's my favorite quote from one of the girls:
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"Men are the new ball and chain."
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(Laughter)
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Now you laugh,
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but that quote has kind of a sting to it, right?
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And I think the reason it has a sting
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is because thousands of years of history
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don't reverse themselves
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without a lot of pain,
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and that's why I talk about
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us all going through this together.
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The night after I talked to these college girls,
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I also went to a men's group in Kansas,
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and these were exactly the kind of victims of the manufacturing economy
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which I spoke to you about earlier.
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They were men who had been contractors,
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or they had been building houses
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and they had lost their jobs after the housing boom,
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and they were in this group because they were failing to pay their child support.
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And the instructor was up there in the class
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explaining to them all the ways
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in which they had lost their identity in this new age.
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He was telling them they no longer had any moral authority,
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that nobody needed them for emotional support anymore,
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and they were not really the providers.
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So who were they?
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And this was very disheartening for them.
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And what he did was he wrote down on the board
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"$85,000,"
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and he said, "That's her salary,"
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and then he wrote down "$12,000."
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"That's your salary.
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So who's the man now?" he asked them.
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"Who's the damn man?
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She's the man now."
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And that really sent a shudder through the room.
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And that's part of the reason I like to talk about this,
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because I think it can be pretty painful,
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and we really have to work through it.
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And the other reason it's kind of urgent
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is because it's not just happening in the U.S.
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It's happening all over the world.
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In India, poor women are learning English
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faster than their male counterparts
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in order to staff the new call centers
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that are growing in India.
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship
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is happening because women are starting businesses,
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small businesses, faster than men.
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And here's my favorite example, which is in South Korea.
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Over several decades,
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South Korea built one of the most patriarchal societies we know about.
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They basically enshrined the second-class status of women
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in the civil code.
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And if women failed to birth male children,
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they were basically treated like domestic servants.
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And sometimes family would pray to the spirits to kill off a girl child
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so they could have a male child.
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But over the '70s and '80s,
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the South Korea government decided they wanted to rapidly industrialize,
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and so what they did was,
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they started to push women into the workforce.
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Now they've been asking a question since 1985:
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"How strongly do you prefer a first-born son?"
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And now look at the chart.
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That's from 1985 to 2003.
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How much do you prefer a first-born son?
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So you can see that these economic changes
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really do have a strong effect on our culture.
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Now because we haven't fully processed this information,
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it's kind of coming back to us in our pop culture
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in these kind of weird and exaggerated ways,
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where you can see that the stereotypes are changing.
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And so we have on the male side
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what one of my colleagues likes to call the "omega males" popping up,
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who are the males who are romantically challenged losers
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who can't find a job.
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And they come up in lots of different forms.
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So we have the perpetual adolescent.
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We have the charmless misanthrope.
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Then we have our Bud Light guy
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who's the happy couch potato.
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And then here's a shocker: even America's most sexiest man alive,
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the sexiest man alive
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gets romantically played these days in a movie.
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And then on the female side, you have the opposite,
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in which you have these crazy superhero women.
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You've got Lady Gaga.
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You've got our new James Bond, who's Angelina Jolie.
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And it's not just for the young, right?
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Even Helen Mirren can hold a gun these days.
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And so it feels like we have to move from this place
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where we've got these uber-exaggerated images
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into something that feels a little more normal.
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So for a long time in the economic sphere,
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we've lived with the term "glass ceiling."
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Now I've never really liked this term.
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For one thing, it puts men and women
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in a really antagonistic relationship with one another,
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because the men are these devious tricksters up there
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who've put up this glass ceiling.
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And we're always below the glass ceiling, the women.
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And we have a lot of skill and experience,
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but it's a trick, so how are you supposed to prepare
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to get through that glass ceiling?
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And also, "shattering the glass ceiling" is a terrible phrase.
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What crazy person
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would pop their head through a glass ceiling?
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So the image that I like to think of,
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instead of glass ceiling,
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is the high bridge.
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It's definitely terrifying to stand at the foot of a high bridge,
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but it's also pretty exhilarating,
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because it's beautiful up there,
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and you're looking out on a beautiful view.
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And the great thing is there's no trick like with the glass ceiling.
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There's no man or woman standing in the middle
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about to cut the cables.
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There's no hole in the middle that you're going to fall through.
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And the great thing is that you can take anyone along with you.
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You can bring your husband along.
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You can bring your friends, or your colleagues,
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or your babysitter to walk along with you.
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And husbands can drag their wives across, if their wives don't feel ready.
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But the point about the high bridge
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is that you have to have the confidence
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to know that you deserve to be on that bridge,
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that you have all the skills and experience you need
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in order to walk across the high bridge,
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but you just have to make the decision
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to take the first step and do it.
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Thanks very much.
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(Applause)
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