What an amazing day I had attending the Massachusetts Conference for Women. The largest conference for women in the country. 11,000 women gathered to learn, network, shop, and just have a great day.
Marion Heard told us to be warriors. She is a founding member of the Massachusetts Conference for Women.
We heard from Adam Grant, and we each received a copy of his book PLAN B.
Diane von Furstenberg told us her history.
Governor Charlie Baker welcomed us all and was proud to be Governor of the State that has the largest Women's Conference.
And frankly the best part of the day we hearing a discussion between Meryl Street and Gloria Steinem. Gloria led the way for all of us to attend college and be what we want. She expanded the workplace from teachers and nurses to whatever we wanted to be. I can't imagine a world without Gloria Steinem. And I am glad to have been born after the change was started.
Meryl spoke about her new movie THE POST, about Katharine Grahm, who was the first female publisher of a major newspaper in the United States.
Together they discussed today's world of how men wanted to keep the power. Equal means equal and we want 50-50 by 2020!
Here is a link of an article from today.
I did attend three breakout sessions, had a short coaching session and walked around the exhibitors. But the highlight was listening to two powerful women have a conversation about women.
