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Among them are alicia glen, nancy pelosi, jenny holzer, roxanne gay, nikki haley, [mollyescort.ru] and other related events. " Young ladies and the government" - the above is not a series about expanding the licenses and potentials of women. This is a series about girls and their approach to power - how students master the knowledge that they lose it, how much they own it, which they sacrifice for the sake of the current and, as a consequence, what, as far as they strive, power will help you achieve. It is divided into 4 chapters, which should be collected in the cut throughout the week. Click here to know more about the project and the women who participated in its interior. Anna wintour sees progress in where glenda jackson sees that same old trash Anna wintourwork: editor of vogue, artistic director of condé nastcollecting medicines for hillary clinton in 2016never remains discovered: dressed in all black Glenda jacksonprofession: tony award-winning actressonce upon a time: was a member of the uk parliamentin our time: rehearsing "king lear" on broadway (she plays lear) Lisa miller: personally, you both have a reputation for formidable characters. Glenda jackson: i don't understand this. We always say, “she's scary.” I have never known anyone who was ever afraid of me. I mean, if it's about you, then i'm not doing it intentionally. Where is the advantage of the phenomenon that the user makes people afraid of you? Anna wintour: people tend to portray citizens in cliches. About this difference between the strength of an ingenue and the strength of a mature woman, where is the experience? Ji ji: a charitable way to emphasize this. Thank you. Oh: young women cooperating with the modern century are very independent. Or what i think is the big difference is that there is no longer such a clear path forward. They like to try a lot of different things. When another person resigns, he does not leave in order to switch to any job; any of them go to a startup. They have an idea and these people want to implement it. I don't remember it when i was younger, do you? Jj: oh, no. Nothing like this has ever happened for the company. But, almost the central thing that is so strange, such women are expected to have absolutely no ability to realize their plans, apart from how to raise children, have a family, balance money and that sort of thing. Oh: i really wonder what has changed. It appeals to me to guess where this has changed. Jj: i'm not brainwashed, everything has changed dramatically. O.U.: Look at the other opportunities that appear before readers today as an actor. There are just a lot more offers. Oh: really? Jj: no. Aw: when everyone is worried about netflix or hbo... Jj: yes, there are various mediums, but as before, multi-part films in which women play a supporting role prevail. Midges do not stimulate dramatic energy. This is mandatory, true in the theater, no matter how people pretend that even has changed. Aw: so that's why you were so attracted to three tall women? Jj: yes. Traditionally, in any person there is only one and possibly two decent female roles. But the question of power - i mean, try theresa may and angela merkel. It took awfully long for political parties to introduce financial changes so that women became potential candidates. And the criticism that falls on theresa may is simply unspeakable. How did it seem to you to relate to gender? Jj: absolutely. O.U.: Well, they also often torment boris johnson. Jj: no. I mean, this is a great example. Aw: don't you think that a person gets a lot of criticism? Jj: no, hell, i don't. I am only very glad to see significantly more criticism in such an address. He gets away with murder on ads. Do you miss everyone to be a member of parliament? Jj: not at all. I miss some voters. But i don't miss parliament. Do you feel that using the services of maturity there is freedom?Aw: i would like to believe that there is a little bit of wisdom in this. However, often i don't quite have enough of this feeling of “anything can happen.” Jj: and the energy that comes from taking risks. O.U.: Yes. It's equally exciting. And able to be, less fear of failure. There is just a feeling of “i can do it.”. Jj: i really think that women have found a preference. O.U.: I literally believe in ours. Sometimes they have very intelligent, articulate voices. Sometimes these bunnies can be very annoying. But at least they talk, and i think it's fine. Why was this woman trying to chain herself to alicia glen? Position: deputy mayor of new york for housing construction and economic developmentoversees: more than twenty city agencies, including nycha and parks & recreationonly: she's had one female boss in her entire career One of the biggest battles we had when we came here was whether we could build housing in brooklyn bridge park and whether it would be affordable housing and not just luxury housing. I am the chairman of the brooklyn bridge park board of directors, and in the first couple of months after getting this job, i go to my first board meeting, and everyone is talking about the fact that we are going to build housing in the park. It's a u-shaped table, and i'm sitting on the end because i'm a chair, and i suddenly feel like something crazy is going on under the table. This is the female activist who tried to handcuff herself to me in protest against the fact that i am announcing that i am going to request proposals for housing construction. And i'm like, what the hell is going on here? That's when it dawned on me: this is not a joke. People play half-starved. There were, like, cops at a brooklyn bridge park corporation meeting. They are supposed to be nice people who are discussing whether we will have a film festival when we plant tulips. The downside of having power is that people get annoyed, and that made me even more determined to get these buildings built. All the people who will never have a chance to live in this park are not here, but the people who live in the most beautiful house in all of new york can somehow find time to come to my meeting and try to tie themselves to me? The negotiations lasted three and a half years. What is power? I do not know what kierkegaard or anyone else would have said. If you're serena williams, power is having a million aces, but in my job, the manifestation of power is to achieve things that otherwise wouldn't happen. - As told to anna silman Nancy pelosi still considers herself the right person for the job. She has one. By rebecca traister Job: minority leader in the house of representativesearned: more than half a billion dollars for democrats since 2006once: he was a guest on rupaul's vh1 drag racing channel of all stars “ I just think it's really a generational thing,” nancy pelosi says, gesturing broadly at minnesota state representative ilhan omar, who is preparing to become the first somali-american member of congress. “I'm in this dress," pelosi continues, glancing at her dark green tailored shirt, "and she's in this charming suit.” Omar is wearing zebra print sneakers, a black pantsuit over a t-shirt with the inscription "barriers must be overcome" and a bright blue hijab. The two are about to sit down at the table for their first extended one-on-one meeting, and pelosi is right: there is a lot in this meeting that seems to be related to generations. One generation is represented by the 78-year-old leader of the democratic house of representatives, who ascended to the position of speaker in 2006. The next one is embodied by omar, a left-wing democrat, part of this season's wave of young women and young women of color running for president. While omar declined to say whether she would support pelosi's continued leadership, as the party is rapidly moving in omar's direction - as far as identity and politics are concerned - there are rumors in the ranks that the nearly eighty-year-old white multimillionaire represents the party's past, not the future. In other words, it's time for pelosi to leave. But it's not that simple. Firstly, the policy of the bay area democrat has long been to the left of the policy of her centrist party, and secondly, her work as a leader is not ideological in nature. It's logistics and management, and when it comes to herding law-making cats, she's undoubtedly great at it. Since 2006, when she organized the democrats' campaign to retake the house of representatives, she has held her often wayward caucus together despite the obama administration's struggles over financial aid and healthcare. And, being in the minority, she was more successful in collecting votes than her colleague, retiring paul ryan: pelosi made deals with trump to raise the debt ceiling and finance the government. Moreover, campaigns against pelosi began almost immediately after she became leader, suggesting that concern may be caused not so much by her effectiveness as by who she is: a woman who is irreconcilable with her power and still does not want to give it up, a trait that distinguishes her from virtually none of her older male peers in the district of columbia. When a skinny luke russert asked her in 2010 if she could resign, given the advanced age of the party leadership, pelosi sharply eviscerated him for asking an “insulting” question: did russert ever ask mitch mcconnell the same thing? Besides, according to her, she came to congress only after her youngest child became a high school graduate, while the guys arrived at 30 - shouldn't that give her a few extra years? Her goal, pelosi concluded, was to attract women “at an earlier age so that their work experience begins to be taken into account earlier.".” Well, they're here! And some of pelosi's missteps in dealing with the most progressive wing of her party are attracting a lot of attention. Last fall, immigration lawyers criticized her for switching to daca. In june, pelosi got into trouble when she rebuked maxine waters for encouraging people to publicly confront trump officials. And more recently, she was accused of undermining the party's increasingly bold economic program by promising to restore a rule requiring new spending to be offset by budget cuts and tax increases. The bottom line is that while pelosi enters this session of congress confident that her party will return to the majority, she also has a new goal behind her. “ I've never had the slightest interest in running for this post,” pelosi said, swearing that as a child she was the daughter of tommy d'alesandro, a former congressman and mayor of baltimore. It's pelosi's trademark to insist that she's always been free of ambition-a tick that can't help but remind of earlier times when a girl might not have been able to figure out that she was following her father into public life, and also when the woman she grew up into couldn't would understand, admitting this, if she was. According to her, her mother, who had six children, who was a volunteer and organizer, was her leader. “It was clear in my family that my older brother tommy was being looked after.” Tommy really followed in his father's footsteps, becoming mayor of baltimore in the late 1960s. “He was the most beautiful, sweet, selfless person in politics that i have ever met,” says his sister. “I have never criticized anyone. Always said: "they have to say what they have to say. Don't take it personally.’ ” But if tommy iii had learned something from big tommy about his political equanimity, then his sister was listening, too. One of her remarkable moves as the leader of the democratic party -a tactic that could only be carried out by a person extremely confident in his own power - was the assertion that she did not mind at all when democratic candidates insulted her during the election campaign. In september, time reported that nearly 60 house candidates had vowed not to support pelosi if elected, and many interpreted the victory of conor lamb in pennsylvania, who aggressively distanced himself from pelosi, as a sign of a real rebellion. But pelosi, as always, remains optimistic. “Just win, baby" is her al davis approach. According to her, her parents encouraged her to be just herself - they didn't even push her to get married. But in her youth, she married san francisco resident paul pelosi, a real estate investor and venture capitalist; in six years, the couple had five children, which threw off her thoughts of going to law school. Although she tells me she “read insatiably about leadership” in college-and now jokes with considerable satisfaction that “i've always wanted to go to law school, and now i'm making laws”-pelosi says she hasn't even suffered touching a problem that has no name for two decades of motherhood. In fact, she says, she has a fantastic business called forever infant; she helped new parents get through the first year: “that was my forte. I'm a mom.” That is, a mom who understood politics even before it paid off. Before moving to san francisco, pelosi lived in new york city, where she was part of what she calls the “wheelchair brigade.” “You couldn't do politics in apartment buildings," pelosi says, "but if you went to a treat with your kids, you could slip a pamphlet under the door.”In san francisco, she opened her family's home to political benefactors and got a place on the library commission. It was unpaid, but it gave her “the right to vote,” she says, and “when you have the right to vote, people treat you differently.” This was her first official role, and she went on to play in the maryland presidential primaries in 1976 for jerry brown, who after winning the state called pelosi the “architect" of his victory. I ask if she liked this confession. “No, i liked that we won.” When friends urged her to run for the seat of a sick congresswoman from san francisco, she asked her daughter alexandra, then a high school student, if she would mind. “Live your life,” alexandra replied. So she did. Arriving in the house of representatives in the summer of 1987, nancy pelosi was one of 24 women. Fast forward 20 years and she will become the most influential female politician in the country. “It's sad to say that,” she immediately says when i describe her that way. “I thought we would have a president and i would be able to return home. That was the plan.” She doesn't have a president, but she has this crop of new women, some of whom admit to her that they're not sure they can handle some of the ugliness she's had to go through. She does not give false assurances: “it's as if you were a tree, and the bark is being stripped from you right now. You have to be prepared for this.” Pelosi, without exaggeration, is one of the toughest people i've ever met. When i listen to her, it occurs to me that maybe she sticks to the position of party boss not only because she is good at it, but also because she is waiting for a person who is good enough to take her. “It's not for me to say: ”that's who i'd like to see next," pelosi says slyly when i push her about the younger generation challenging her power. “It's up to them.” In 2016, then-maryland state representative chris van hollen considered trying to fire her. “He would be a great speaker,” pelosi says now. “But i didn't stand in his way. Other people standing above him pounced on him. ”Yes, i say, but it's probably because you put pressure on. She is tired of beating around the bush: “none of us is irreplaceable. I feel like i'm the best person for this job. I have a lot of followers in the country. That's what i tell other people: show your followers. You must have the intellectual, political and financial resources to win the election if you are going to become a leader.” Therefore , she concludes: “you see, i like a fight. And it's very unfortunate for the people who are chasing me, because i really like a fight.” She smiles. “Make my day better.” Hanya yanagihara allowed herself to fall into this trap Job: editor-in-chief of the magazine "t"her novel "little life" was nominated for the man booker award.Claims: don't cry since 1995 I always tell young women when they are negotiating a salary, just don't say anything. When your future employer makes an offer, you should indicate your objection and they will say, “well, we really can't do that.” And depending on what stage the negotiations are at, you will either say, “i don't have an answer,” or just don't say anything. This is very difficult to do - it took me years to learn. But it is very inconvenient for people to be silent, and the one who breaks the silence first loses. It's good to come in knowing exactly what you're willing to compromise on, and then be quiet, because i think women start chatting and they start saying, “i'm sorry, but i really would like this amount.” You will never have to apologize for asking for more money. You will never have to explain why. In my youth, i had several jobs where i allowed myself to play the role of a workhorse. There are always workhorses and show ponies in magazines, and i've never minded being a workhorse. But i understood that in a couple of jobs that i had, things just piled up, and i took them, both because i liked the work, and because, in my opinion, i thought that my usefulness was diligence. But hard work is one of those meaningful terms that people use in relation to asians when they try to say that we are not sparkling or creative enough. And i really think there were a few jobs where i allowed myself to fall into this trap. Because i knew that this is how they see me, and i knew that i could realize it. In the end, it didn't do me any good. - As told to anna silman Jenny holzer made good things out of horror Job: artistsoon: trucks with animated billboards that she made after "parkland" will appear in los angeles in november.. “Truism“: "dying should be as easy as falling off a log.” Abuse of power is not surprising. Jenny holzer, a 68-year-old conceptual artist who in the late 1970s began pasting lower manhattan with posters with her written “capital truths” - aphoristic statements like "absolute submission can be a form of freedom," and ambivalence can destroy your life - became the idol of our era online. On twitter, various holzer bots tweet her maxims, which are read as if they anticipate the medium. (Holzer has nothing to do with these reports, but says he appreciates their humor.) On instagram, where she appears as a hashtag more than 38,000 times, you can see her words as they appear in the world: on benches, cinema tents, led panels, light projections. In real life- and that's where holzer, who doesn't use social media, prefers to exist - last fall she gave permission to we're not surprised, an offshoot of #metoo, to use her “truism” abuse of power is not surprising in an open letter signed by 9500 artists, writers and by non-male curators, condemning ingrained sexism in the art world. In january, lorde attached one of holzer's “inflammatory essays,” the more aggressive screeds she wrote after “truisms,” to the fiery red dress she wore to the grammys. It's easy to explain holzer's modern appeal. We are a culture bathed in illegible words - text messages, news feeds, words on screens, words on billboards- and its old-school maxims cunningly expose language in all its guises: as cliches, ranting, manipulation, seduction, survival tactics, confusing truth bearer. At a time when hashtags, slogans and memes have never had the power to go viral, her art uses the authoritative language of advertising, internet culture and self-help and asks us to question its ability to define us.. [Read the full interview with holzer here] Drew gilpin faust, harvard's first female president, was nicknamed ‘chainsaw drew’ By amanda fortini Job: harvard honorary president of the universityled a $9.3 billion fundraising campaignher book: this republic of suffering: death and the american civil war was a finalist for the national book award Civil war researcher drew gilpin faust resigned in june after 11 years as president of harvard university, becoming the first woman ever to hold the post. She followed the example of lawrence h. Summers, who was kicked out for saying that the lack of women in science is due to “internal” gender differences.Faust caused what could be considered a contradiction of the opposite kind: she was too smart, her critics grumbled - during her time, the number of full-time female teachers increased by 47 percent. On banning harvard's same-sex clubs, including exclusive men's “final clubs”: starting in 2021, any student who belongs to one of these clubs cannot be a leader in student groups or university sports. Nor receive approval for scholarships. “When you have influential organizations that line up women on the streets and decide if they are attractive enough to be accepted... It seems to me that this is an unfair attitude towards women in the harvard community,” faust says dryly. About how he grew up with three brothers in virginia before the civil rights era: “it's a man's world, honey,” faust's mother used to say. Meanwhile, her brothers were exempted from teaching ”manners, curtsies, no ballet lessons." What did she find out? “Being a man meant taking on power and exercising it, not hiding from it.” About her nickname “chainsaw drew”: when radcliffe turned from a college into a center for scientists, faust, as its dean, was accused of eliminating about a quarter of the staff. She did it in one day so that she didn't have to “waste time on solving.” About impostor syndrome: “for 11 years, i wandered around the harvard campus, repeating to myself several times a day: am i really the president of harvard?” [ Read the full interview with faust here] Andrea mitchell cried when she found out how little she was paid Position: chief foreign affairs correspondent for nbc news; anchor andrea mitchell reportsonce: he was excluded from the photo shoot for trying to interrogate the media-avoiding secretary of state rex tillerson Andrea mitchell was 35 when she started covering the reagan white house for nbc news. Now, at 71, she is still at the forefront. Women often say that we are programmed or taught to be pleasant. But isn't being nice part of your job?I found that i have an instinctive desire to ask a difficult question. And right after that, i want to apologize, say, “i'm so sorry. I didn't mean to be obnoxious.” The other part of this is that, being brought up to please, we are vulnerable. We are vulnerable to sexual predators, we are vulnerable to not being paid enough, we don't know how to demand what is owed to us. When you get that feeling, “oh, i was some kind of asshole in that room,” what do you do? Well, i think a lot about my mother. When she first saw me at the white house on the south lawn, my job was to shout questions to ronald reagan so that he would hear me over the helicopter, stop and speak. I was so small that i couldn't be seen because of the cameras and tripods, so i crawled under the tripod and jumped out on a rope. And it often worked. He will stop. Or he would call me at a press conference and ask, “what were you trying so hard to ask me?” He literally said it at my first press conference because i was shouting so often. And then my mom saw me doing it on tv, called me and said: “i didn't raise you to be rude.” Have you become better at it over the years? Now that you're in a room with anyone, do you feel more entitled to your power, or do you still feel guilty after that? There is always some shade. Sometimes i come out of a fight and say: “wasn't i too persistent there?”And i remember the male cameramen in the white house complaining that i had sharp elbows, as if it wasn't done for a woman to be as aggressive as the guys. But i also remember competing with another correspondent from another network many years ago- Man or woman? Actually, a woman. And i was relatively aggressive, but at the same time apologizing and trying to be light. It was at the very beginning of my career, and i began to notice that this other correspondent was called back because the sources were afraid of her. I was afraid of how good she was as a reporter. I say this with admiration. And so if you're always nice, they don't really think you'll be persistent. They are trying to hide as much information from you as possible, and you are trying to expose stories. Calls are received by someone who is kind of a tough guy. Yes, i would like to be cool- I think you're a tough guy. I'm a cool guy, but i also want to be loved. I'm not sure men care as much as we do about being liked. Talk to me about how the culture and our perception of sexism has changed. I was an adult during the clinton-lewinsky scandal, and the excuse “boys will be boys” was so common then. It was very unpleasant for me to review all these incidents through the prism of #metoo. Have you had the same experience? Now i look back and admit that some of the things i endured are simply unbearable. Can you give me an example?Just harassment and, in particular, inappropriate language from close colleagues, sometimes in close proximity, a lot of dirty jokes and offensive behavior that created inconvenience in the workplace. It seemed like there was nowhere to complain, and you wanted to be part of a gang because you were often the only woman. So who were you going to complain to? There were no female leaders back then. I think it depends on the generation to the extent that people's reaction to the movement is very often dictated by age. Definitely.The young women i work with, who are my colleagues and are part of my team here on my msnbc show, would not tolerate what we put up with in the 70s, 80s and 90s - and they shouldn't. It was a rude awakening for women of my generation, who were told all the time that they had to put up with this because it happens in the workplace. I'm not talking about the attack because i haven't experienced it. I'm just talking about really disgusting behavior. In order to rise up then, did you capitulate to male culture, or to sources, or to ways of telling stories, to which you now have an ambivalent attitude? When i look back at my report on anita hill and clarence thomas on that key friday night of the first day of the hearing, i remember that tom brokaw was the moderator, and he asked me, “what did we learn?” It was getting close to midnight. I said something i can't believe i said on tv. I said: “i think we've learned that the united states senate is the last major plantation in the american government.” So i didn't take the sails off at all because of that, and no one asked me to. But i think that the choice of the plot was largely dictated by male dominance in the editorial office. I don't think we've done enough on women's empowerment, medical issues and other social issues that were considered soft. The point is that we have to redefine what news is. Many of these questions about stressful family situations, single mothers, and social issues are just as important as everything else we cover. It's the same with how we define what's important in a political campaign. A report about hillary clinton comes to mind. A lot of it was self-inflicted, but as a woman, when i think about why she had a private server-which was definitely wrong-why she was so defensive, so secretive, i remember seeing her in 1992, right after the jennifer flowers story broke and the accusations in draft evasion. She came to new hampshire, taking to the national stage for the first time to campaign for bill, and all the cameras chased her down the street. She cowered like a hunted animal. I'm not justifying a private server, i'm just trying to understand and explain. Do you think it has to do with gender or just with her character? This is partly due to gender. I remember reading a good article about a different gender aspect, comparing hillary to scarlett o'hara when tara burns to the ground. It meant going back to my arkansas roots and saying, “i'll never be poor again.”So, 1979, 1980, clinton loses the post of governor. She has a libertine husband, a child, aging parents, no money. She has a choice: will i go to work in the public sector or join rose law firm, the largest and richest firm in this part of the country? Am i going to join the board of directors of walmart? I'll have to support myself because he might disappear. In my opinion, women don't talk enough about how money motivates them. I remember one occasion here when i worked so hard and there was a mckinsey study on everyone's salaries. I was part of a breakthrough group that we created for this, and the leader posted a table without names, which indicated who was the most productive correspondent, and who was the highest paid and the lowest paid. My colleague, the chief white house correspondent, was the highest paid and most productive. Everyone knew who this point on the map was. Then there was another point with the same high number of stories: the lowest paid. One of the heads of the bureau said: “well, everyone knows who gets a big salary” - the highest salary then was $600,000- Holy shit. “But who is this stupid jerk who works hard and gets nothing for it?”I was just torn apart by the realization that everyone earned more than me. I did what an adult woman could do: i started crying. I was so ashamed, and i thought that everyone would find out, but they didn't understand it, because no one would have thought that i would be paid so badly. What did you do? Well, what the mckinsey leader did was call the then president of nbc news and said, “you have a problem.”And i was called, and the president of the news department said, 'i'm sorry. We are really underpaying you, and i am immediately raising your salary.” You'll never catch up, but it was a real lesson. Were you more aggressive about your compensation after that? No. You want to sort of say, “thank you. Thank you for giving me this wonderful job. I'm so grateful.” I mean, it's generally a woman's instinct. My stomach is twisting into a knot right now. I mean, it was terrible. Not on my watch, sally yates said Job: lawyer and former acting attorney generalhired for the first time: to the ministry of justice as a republicancurrently: lecturer at georgetown university law center and partner at king & spalding 20 on january 2017, after donald trump was sworn in and after the departure of obama's attorney general loretta lynch, sally yates, a 27-year veteran of the justice department, became the acting attorney general of the country. Seven days later, on friday afternoon, president trump signed an executive order titled “protecting the nation from the entry of foreign terrorists into the united states,” which banned travelers from seven muslim-majority countries. Yates, who says she “never dreamed that the new president would take such dramatic action so quickly,” had to decide whether to carry them out. The constitution promises that we will not discriminate on the basis of religion - the executive order turned the constitution upside down. President trump has claimed that this has nothing to do with religious discrimination, but he has stated his intentions many times during the election campaign. How could i send justice department lawyers to challenge something that wasn't based on the truth? All this happened in an incredibly short period of time, which is about 72 hours. You really would have liked more time to sort out the legal intricacies, but the more we discussed it, the clearer it became to me. To be honest, if i had to do it again using 72 days instead of hours, i would do exactly the same thing. Of course, i was thinking about resigning! But i wasn't a department head or an assistant - i was the acting attorney general. It was like saying, “i'm leaving here. You guys can handle it.” It was a very personal decision - no one else can help you. You have to look inside yourself. By monday evening, i had to write a memo. Again, this is something you would like to have more time for. I write slowly. I wrote: “i am responsible for ensuring that the positions we take in court correspond to the solemn obligation of this institution to always seek justice and defend what is right. At present, i am not convinced that the protection of the executive order meets these responsibilities, and i am not convinced that the executive order is legitimate.” I finished the memo, talked to my deputy matt axelrod, and clicked send. The memo went through the channels of the justice department and detained all the lawyers who were supposed to appear in federal courtrooms the next morning to defend the order. By then it was early monday evening and the outer offices were quiet. I was sitting at my desk alone, doing other things, when i thought, i wonder if it's still there? I had a tv in my office, i turned it on, and the note exploded. I wasn't a fool. I knew it would be important. But i switched to a couple of stations and saw it everywhere. I turned off the tv and continued to work. There was a door between my office and matt's. We went back and forth a thousand times a day. But at nine o'clock matt knocked on my door and didn't come in, so i knew someone was with him. A justice department official came in and handed me a business envelope from the white house. The letter consisted of one sentence and relieved me of my duties. You could say that it was embarrassing to deliver the letter of dismissal of the attorney general. He's a good guy, he was just doing his job. Then the president issued a statement: “acting attorney general sally yates has betrayed the department of justice by refusing to enforce a lawful order designed to protect the citizens of the united states.” I absolutely did not expect how people across the country, even outside of our country, would respond. Recently, getting off the plane, i felt someone pat me on the shoulder from behind. He was an elderly african-american gentleman. He was wearing an obama '08 baseball cap covered with campaign buttons that he must have collected for many years. He took it off and offered it to me. “Oh no, i couldn't take your hat,” i said. But he insisted: “counselor, it would be very important to me if you would accept this.” I accepted it, but i shed tears. Shortly after, i was standing in line at the bank and couldn't help but notice a middle-aged white man in a veterans for trump baseball cap standing a few customers ahead of me. When he was done, he turned around and walked straight towards me. I thought: "oh my god. He said, “you don't like my hat, do you?” I said, “i respect that. Thank you for your service to our country.” And he said, “well, i appreciate what you've done, and i thank you.” - As told to melissa faye green Roxanne gay will not be mistaken for a caterer Job: writerher first non-fiction book: bad feministher favorite author: edith wharton I think about my mother when i'm asked to put up with all sorts of nonsense, and that she just won't stand for it. She's very cool, but when people tried to take advantage of us at school, she told our teachers, “you can't jeopardize my child's education because it's a black child.” Now when i reply to trolls on twitter, mostly i do it to be petty, and it's nice. But it's also very important not to tolerate bullshit and say, “you know, even if it seems like a small thing, it's not.” Self-respect is not a small thing. It also draws attention to the level of harassment that black women face online. Often i come to an event and someone asks if i am a catering manager or if i work there because there is no way i can be the keynote speaker. To work so hard and for so long, and such a banal thing as racism interferes with my work is incredibly frustrating - no one ever asks a white writer at an event if he is a catering manager. Therefore, it is important for me to fight back when such things happen. I feel the strongest when i go on stage, and thousands of people are there to see me, and they applaud, and i know that for the next hour people will be there to listen to me. And when someone asks me my opinion about something and doesn't expect me to change it immediately when i have time to really think about it, it seems like a great sign of respect. There is an idea that as a black woman i am a bottomless font, and that i should be grateful for the attention of others. I am very grateful to my readers, but i demonstrate my gratitude in my work ethic. That should be enough. - As irene carmon said To understand trump, look at melania, ivanka, ivana and his mother Hannah rosin talks with nina burley about her new book "golden handcuffs": the secret history of trump's women Outside of trump castle, the country is becoming more tolerant of women in public positions. But trump and his “queens,” as nina burley calls them in her new book, "golden handcuffs": the secret history of trump's women, is a reference to another era. His wives-and even to some extent other women in his family-made a deal by agreeing to accept what burleigh calls “long-term enslavement" in exchange for wealth and fame. We know the tabloid tidbits about trump's women, but newsweek reporter burley puts the pieces together in an amazing way. Some of the women closest to the most nativist president in recent history are consumed by their immigrant roots, from his grandmother to his mother and his current wife. Trump treats women as inconsequential props in many ways, and yet he is deeply afraid of them, almost as if they were witches who, with their mysterious bodily functions, could steal his mojo. It's all so old-fashioned, but part of his appeal undoubtedly stems from nostalgia for what his style of marriage represents. Below is what the six most important women in trump's life - his mother, grandmother, daughter and three wives-tell us about him and, possibly, about ourselves. Hannah rosin: that's what i couldn't understand from your book - does trump like women? Nina burley: in its own way. Or at least he likes to feel that they like him, because it's all about his ego and being flattered. But i don't think he's a misogynist. In my head, i make a distinction between him and bill clinton. They're both philanderers, but it feels like clinton really likes women. They are made from the same generation, both guys of the 60s in the style of hefner. They think that women's harems should be available to them. From your book, i still get the impression that trump's relationship seems devoid of romance, almost joyless. I would say they are very transactional. Although, perhaps, he really loved ivana. Someone described to me the scene when they were kissing on the bridge, and he looked drugged. But then again, what is love to him? Maybe it's not what we think of as love. This is a good transition to his childhood. Trump often talks about his father fred, but you write about his mother and grandmother as the most influential forces. Yes. His grandmother was a stern, probably cold woman, originally from a tiny village in germany. Then suddenly her husband dies, leaving her with three small children and a small nest. To survive, she transformed it into the trump organization in the 1920s. So she is the real trump card! But she was erased from history. Now they tell it as if fred founded the whole organization at the age of 16. And donald's mother, mary ann-i had no idea she was a domestic servant! A servant in one of the richest houses in america. I couldn't believe it when i found her in the census records. Her first address was at the carnegie house, the closest to the castle that existed in the usa at that time. So, she is 19 years old, she comes from scotland, where ten children live in a two-bedroom cottage. Then she polishes the railing or the silver and watches this woman [louise carnegie] with the air of a queen being driven by footmen. This marked trump's mother for life. She admired this wealth and wanted to be a part of it, and donald inherited it from her. So it whetted his appetite for royal jewelry. Did it also give him the feeling that he had always been an outsider? These are two sides of the same thing. The whole country is now living in this man's conflict between the desire to be a member of the royal family and the deep feeling that he does not belong to it. People who feel deprived probably feel the smell of insecurity coming from him and identify with him. Exactly. What about his father's nostalgia for the german homeland and the feeling that he is being persecuted as a german? How much should we read into this, into aryan tendencies? Trump adopted from his family the idea that german blood is cleaner - he said something like that when germans have parades, no one should clean up after them. German superiority is certainly part of his sense of self. Can you tell us about the great freudian moment of his young life?When he was 2 years old, his mother went to the hospital to give birth to his younger brother robert and did not return home for many months because she fell ill with peritonitis and underwent many operations. And now he was left alone, deprived of the main guardian. And his father is not warm and fluffy. He told the older kids: “your mom may die today, but you need to go to school.” At the age of 2, you establish primary connections, learn about love and that you are loved - and his mother is gone. Combined with this, i think he had learning disabilities, reading problems, and probably undiagnosed adhd. Except for those days when violent boys were considered healthy; readers were sissies and neurotics. So donald didn't have any problems. His aggressiveness was highly appreciated. You have a phrase there that i remember: he thought of women as “expendable.”The point is that they are creatures that need to be taken for pleasure and then thrown away. A source told me about new york parties where older men hung out with aspiring models, most of whom were under 20 years old, who were sent by party organizers or agents. What he meant by “consumables” was that you could stare at them and, if possible, take them with you to hotel rooms or apartments as a sexual snack. And where did trump get this idea about women from?His father had a mistress all his life - he was known as the “king of miami beach". He would go down and get all these girls. Again, like hefner. But there is another situation when trump speaks of women as “murderers.” This is a recognition of the power of women or some kind of power that they possess. I think it's inherited from his grandmother, who was a frightening woman. And it also goes back to the primitive female taboo that existed in the family. You know his father wouldn't allow the word "pregnant" to be used at home. The idea of women as unclean, and also as witches. Beware, they can take away your strength! What do you mean by “golden handcuffs"?My initial interest in this topic stems from the fact that i wonder what kind of women would like to be with a man like trump. It's almost impossible for most women i know to imagine why melania, this gorgeous woman who can have any boyfriend-hot guys! Funny guys! - I would have chosen this fool. So why did she do it? And what does this say about the place of women in 2018? Because it's so archaic. And did this book help you understand this decision?Many women make this choice because they don't see any other ways to gain power, and the trump administration doesn't do it any better. But isn't there something patronizing in what you say? Someone like melania may just have a different understanding of how power works. And, in fact, she gained a lot of power and fame for herself. But at what cost? I mean the humiliation of being married to someone who sleeps with porn stars right after you have a baby. Or whom 19 women are accused of rude actions. And about having to accept the pity of millions of people. Is it worth what you call power, just to be able to pick up the phone and ask a stylist to come and dress you? But do you believe that melania and ivana would have more power if neither of them had married trump? No, but i think melania is not interested in having power. Only financial security. But what choice did she have before? You're flirting around the question of melania's escort. The statistics you cite about the sexualization of women in russia are striking, for example, about how a survey of high school girls in moscow in the 1990s showed that 60 percent would exchange sex for hard currency. Incredible, isn't it? Russian and eastern european women were sexualized the second the berlin wall fell. Residents of the former soviet union looked through the wall at ads with half-naked women selling cars and clothes. They equated capitalism with buying sex - this is melania's generation. And there was a fine line between a theatrical performance, the modeling world and the work of an escort. But if you're asking specifically about whether melania was an escort? All i can say is that i do not know what her career was like between slovenia and appearing in new york. When the daily mail was sued for investigating this case, this way of questioning was closed. Well, obviously it was her sex appeal and beauty that brought her to trump castle. And it was a traditional source of power for women. Would you prefer a world where it just wouldn't be a tool that women could use? There are many examples of worlds where this was not the case. In the former soviet union, women were expected to be educated and employed. You don't need a world in which just because a woman is attractive, it is assumed that being a model is her best path to success. You talked about pygmalion's relationship with his wives, but with his daughter ivanka they seemed more alive. She was really interested in sitting on his lap and learning, and she never lost her way.She is his greatest creation in his mind - and she is himself in a more pleasant form. She is the future of the brand, and i am convinced that she really thinks that someday she will be able to run for president. Do you think she will succeed? I do not know - who thought that her father could win? Right now it seems that anything is possible. Maria grazia chiuri learns to look at fashion through her daughter's eyes Position: artistic director of diorfirst: the woman who heads the label creative sideput: chimamanda ngozi adichie's quote “we should all be feminists” on a t-shirt I think in the past i didn't understand the power of the fashion system. For my generation, fashion was something playful. Fashion is so popular now-so pop- that we have to think more about the world through what we do. I feel a lot of responsibility. In my life, for example, i have never thought about cultural appropriation or gender. My daughter helped me understand all these arguments. - As emilia petrarch said [ Read the full text of the interview here]

Ursula burns: “we're half the fucking population. We don't have to be better, we don't have to be smarter, we don't have to be faster, we just have to be alive.” Former: ceo of xeroxfirst: an african-american woman who headed a fortune of 500 companiesinterned: for xerox in 1980 I'm a woman, i'm black, i grew up in projects. One of the problems that “unique” leaders face is that what people think is unique about you, you find ordinary. Your natural state is declared to be something incredibly special. I remember when i was an engineering student, there were very few women. I was the only black woman. What i realized was that people couldn't ignore me. Even if i wanted to make a stupid comment, people would reach out to me if i raised my hand. If you were smart enough, it would be a good position. I was noticed in the first place-not in the first place, but completely-because of how i looked. I thought there was power in that. When we use it significantly more as a weakness, then it creates problems, right? When i was in graduate school, it was the same. Then, when i went to work, the same thing happened. During most of the conversations i have with women, especially stem women or women in leadership, they describe feeling lonely. I'm like, “yeah? Find your less lonely place somewhere else - with your girlfriends. As long as you're here, you can use it as an advantage.” I was the first to be noticed at xerox at a meeting held by the deputy commander. He was open to questions from a senior executive, and one of the questions was about affirmative action. The person asked the question in a very respectful manner, but it was not a very respectful question. They basically said they wanted to understand how this executive felt about hiring these women and people of color; he said ”girls and black people." He believed that this reduces the quality of the workforce. And the executive director respectfully said that this did not happen, and diversity is good, and so on. Well, i followed that question with my own question, where i asked this supervisor why he answered a question that didn't deserve an answer. I said the best answer would be to kick the guy out the door. Obviously, i said it a little angrier than i am now. I said he's part of the problem! Part of the problem is that we actually accept this type of behavior! When the meeting ended, the person who brought me to the meeting, who is now my husband, pointed out to me that i probably did something that wasn't ideal for my career. I thought that if they fire me, then they will fire me. A few days later, the same top manager invited me to his office, and we started a serious relationship based on differences. He was a white male from middle america, indiana. He was a republican and extremely conservative, and i was a black woman from new york, a democrat. As a result, we discussed everything imaginable. I remember when we started the first war in iraq. I was on a trip with him, and he said something about the war, and i said, “yes, but your people don't have to go to war.” They weren't interested in me getting in line. I was encouraged to express my opinion. In the end, he offered me to become his executive assistant. Gender and race were at the heart of everything that happened to me in the company. Many times it was not obvious. The person right in front of me that i was following was a woman. She became my friend. So when she became president and then ceo, she had to create a team, and i worked directly for her for a number of years. Women have all the abilities that men have, and even some of them. There is nothing in the work of white-collar workers, neither physical nor mental, that a woman could not do. Educational achievements are better for women. And even a table, chairs - everything can fit for a woman. But the look, the vision, the idea of what leadership looks like are created for a man. When you say the word "leader", what comes to your mind is not a woman. Period. The only way it pops into your head is when you're doing nursing or teaching. It's made for men. Everything. Chairs, tables, the way we pay - everything is literally centered around a man, and then we modify it for a woman. There is nothing structural here, except for the men's and women's rooms, which say “men”, except that everything says “man". This is the most insidious thing that can be fixed, because i can't point out five things that we need to fix - fix the door, fix the chair, make the table higher. Nothing like that. It's everything: the way we think, the way we approach things, the way we even treat people - i use the word "guys" - everything we think about. Leadership, strength, power - everything is around this person, who, as a rule, has a certain anatomy and a certain color. Then you go even further structurally: women literally, in order to recreate our kind, have to change the shape of their body, and then leave work for at least a day to produce a small child. Men shouldn't do that. We can continue to publish articles justifying why it is better to have more women, and i say that i am so tired of these discussions. We're half the fucking population. We don't have to be better, we don't have to be smarter, we don't have to be faster, we just have to be alive. That's what i want to say. We have to step back. It's just fair that we participate, at least at a reasonable pace for us in the world, and we don't do it at all. We should be paid the same amount of money. Why? Because it's fair. We spend too much time making excuses. - As alexa tsulis-rey said Nikki haley kicks with a smile Author: lisa miller Position: u.S. Ambassador to the united nationsfirst: female governor of south carolinaonce: successfully achieved the removal of the confederate flag from the territory of the state building At the beginning of october, i sat down to talk to the un ambassador nikki haley. She has just returned from a meeting with the president in washington, d.C. Where she allegedly discussed her intention to resign in less than a week. When she publicly announced her decision on october 9, she did so without much explanation, saying only that she would not run for president in 2020. Even when i was talking to haley, all i could think about was how hard she was working to distance herself from trump and all the toxic divisions in congress, positioning herself as a kinder, more compassionate representative of the republican party.. Can you tell me about the negotiations for your current job? When the president was elected, there was talk about you becoming secretary of state, then this job appeared, and you said, “not this. This. I want to be in the cabinet of ministers, as well as in the national security council.” I knew that being a governor, you can't easily go to work for other people. So for me, i also wanted it to be a position in the cabinet of ministers. I was accountable only to him, and then i could talk directly to him. He immediately agreed, and i told him that i also needed to be on the national security council because i wanted to be in the room where decisions were made. He said: “done.” And then i told him: “but i'm not going to be a nerd or a talking head.” Why not secretary of state, which is a more important job? I think you should know what is right for you at the right time. I always try to push myself and take risks, and this job was just that. It was realistic. It didn't happen. I started out doing domestic politics as governor, and really the only thing i did was travel around the countries to sell companies, coming to south carolina. I don't put myself in that position if i can't be sure i'm good at it. It will also keep you away from toxic washington. I knew it was more my speed. I was thinking about the time when the white house canceled the decision on additional sanctions against russia, a decision that you had already announced, and then economic adviser larry kudlow accused you of “momentary confusion.” You responded by saying, “with all due respect, i'm not confused.” I mean, look, larry kudlow is my dear friend, dear friend. I saw him last week and gave him a big hug. But the thing is, it was wrong to say that. It is very important to stand up for yourself. I wasn't the only one saying this about myself. The whole building, they would have to come to terms with the fact that i was confused. I can't let that happen. Do you think being a southerner helps you in diplomacy? I really think that coming from the south taught me a lot. In the south, you learn to hit with a smile. You learn to act in your own way, but at the same time you treat it kindly and with respect. Have you talked to the president about this method of communication? I've never tried. I talked to him about some cases and said, “it didn't help” or “you could have done it differently.” But he is what he is. He was chosen because of who he is. I would never have thought that it was my business to go and fix it, because it's not easy to become president of the united states. And it's not easy to continue being president of the united states. And he does it well and brings it to the end. Is he insulting people? Yes. But he has as many people who like what he says. Look, he won't change for me. And to be honest, everything he does works. What do you think about the problem of republican women going to the midterm elections? There's a big gap here. I think women don't vote in the block as often as many would like to think, but i just think we don't talk about it loudly. These are republican women. Indeed, it seems that democrats are more eloquent, but do not underestimate the strength and power of republican women. We're just doing things more quietly. I mean, have we ever said that women in huge numbers will run for president in the last election? We have never seen this in any survey. Personally, i keep my cards very close to my heart. Yes, it is. So i think it's a strength. I've always thought that silence is strength, and discipline is strength. You say that women have autonomy, for which we do not give them credit. It kills me when they say that “women vote". There is no women's right to vote here. We all think differently on different issues. You must be in the same room with men who don't want you to succeed. How do you deal with these people? I just ignore them and work my way through it. Have you ever lain awake and thought, "does my boss really want to get me?" You're going to have problems at every job. The best way to overcome this is to be so fantastic in your work that they won't be able to touch you. However, these are quite influential people. I'm pretty strong. [ Read the full interview with haley here] Robbie kaplan shakes the dust off the ku klux klan from 1871 Work: founding partner kaplan hecker & fink, representing: moira donegan, who was sued by one of the men from the “list of shitty media people” created by donegan There is a story in my family about how, when i was 2 and a half years old, my grandmother told me: “robbie, could you please stop talking for three seconds?”And i said something like, 'grandma, i wish i could. I just love to talk so much that i can't stop.”At a fairly young age, i realized that lawyers are paid to speak, and i was completely in. I was very close to judge judith kay, for whom i worked as a secretary. She had a huge impact on me - i remember being very upset about something and she said, “look, robbie, whenever i feel like this, i just go to the bathroom and splash cold water on my face. You can never show anger.”And i think even then, around the mid-1990s, i answered something like: “i'm from a different generation, judge, and that's not how i deal with my disappointment.” But someone who grew up in her generation correctly understood that if she wanted to succeed, she had to suppress it. In the case of edie windsor, the defense of marriage act (doma) had the same negative impact on me, maybe even more, because i was young, married to a woman and had a child. But i had this note on my computer that said, “it's all because of edie, silly.” And part of that was our strategy: focus on edie and her relationship with her longtime partner thea spyer. But part of it was a not-so-subtle statement to myself: “keep your stuff away from this.”I was able to do this 99 percent of the time, but there is a moment when chief justice roberts spoke about how great the political support for gays is. I said something like, “well, you know, until 1990, gays couldn't even legally enter the country,” and my voice cracked with emotion. Every time i listen to him, i think it's robbie kaplan coming out. I just couldn't hold back anymore. Initially, i challenged the marriage case in 2006 in the new york court of appeals and lost immediately after the birth of my son. It was incredibly frustrating and i spent a lot of time thinking about it. One thing i realized was that we had all these plaintiffs, but none of their stories surfaced. I argued with the judges about an abstract political argument. Then, after meeting edie, her story became the best in the world; a story about “in sickness and in health”, about how she lived with thea, who had been paralyzed for so many years. It immediately occurred to me that this is the perfect way to do it. In 2017, i founded my own company, and i have to say that i am very proud of myself for doing this. We had literally been in our new office for four days-we were all working at card tables-when it happened in charlottesville last august. We were watching the news reports, and i thought: we need to do something about this. I remembered an old case about a website called the nuremberg dossiers: they posted photos and home addresses of doctors who performed abortions. It was incitement to violence. I was wondering if we could use a similar theory here? We have dusted off the ku klux klan act of 1871 - it prohibits conspiracies to commit racially motivated violence. And last october, we filed a case against 24 neo-nazi leaders, the ku klux klan and other white supremacists. We have just won a motion to cancel a subpoena filed by a woman with a charming handle kristall.Night. Our subpoena will reveal the identities of the chat participants used to plan charlottesville. Probably in about a year we will be tried in federal court. - As kere bolonik said Alison mass thought stephanie cohen had a black belt in mergers Alison masswork: global head of the financial and strategic investors group at goldman sachs Stephanie cohenposition: director of strategy at goldman sachs Alison mass: i've been a partner since the day i got here, and we've always talked about who the “q1s” are, as we would call women with a high trajectory. Stephanie has always been on these lists. We call it the merger black belt.We wanted to build a global mergers business focused on clients-financial sponsors. It was a completely new role, no one had ever done it - and we needed someone who could create something out of nothing. She had to believe the partners that we would all support her to make this happen. She eventually agreed, but the debate lasted about six weeks. Stephanie cohen: there's a group of people i usually turn to when i make decisions, and that was probably one of the most controversial decisions. Am: in those early days, she came with problems. “So-and-so is asking me to inherit this vice president in my group, but i don't hear anything good about him.” And i would say, “so say no.” And she's like, "is that all?”Or, you know, “i want to hire this guy, but i know they only want to pay him x, but i want to pay him x plus. How do i do this?” I'm like, “pay him as much as you want to pay him.” And she's like, “is that all?” I said yes. Her instincts are 100 percent correct. Sk: i looked up at alison. She had a great relationship with clients, but she also had a very busy life outside the office, and she was pretty open about it all. Am: as a woman in finance, i've been in the minority for 37 years - i'm still in the minority. But i don't go to meetings and i don't think about the fact that i'm the only woman in this meeting. As a junior banker, i was most acutely aware of the age difference. Being a 20-year-old woman with a 45-year-old or 50-year-old finance director, ceo, i felt, and it was more the youth, that i just had to do my homework, i had to be an expert. There were times when people looked at you and because of the way you looked, they assumed you weren't as competent as the seven men sitting next to you, so i just dedicated myself to the details of how to be an expert. Sc: [at the beginning of my career] i was in the general industry, and i could go for weeks without another woman being present at meetings with me. One thing i noticed: we hold a lot of conference calls as investment bankers. You may have 20 to 30 or more people on call, and it's important that you get your point across, and in some cases it's important that you get your point across and they know it's you. One of the advantages of being a woman is that they know it's you. Am: it's a double-edged sword. Everyone remembers what you said in the room, so it better be good. Because if it's not … i feel that my relationship also gives me strength. I remember coming to merrill lynch in 1990, and the head of the banking department asked me to call henry kravis about a case. I remember looking at him and thinking, “me? Do you want me to call henry?”So i go to my office with trepidation - i was a young managing director and was always number 2. I picked up the phone and called henry, he picked up the phone and said, “hi, alison, how are you?”He wanted to hear what i had to say, we had a business conversation, and we hung up. I remember feeling amazing. And here i am, i've worked for nine years, and now i've been able to pick up the phone and call the most important person in the world of private equity. It was the first time i realized that it didn't matter that i was no. 2, my relationship with him was something that made me feel very strong. Sk: i remember being a vice president. I was relatively young, and i was working with a relatively large deal, and i was really doing it all. At some point, one person has to talk to another person and actually make a deal. You kind of look left and right and think, “yes, i think it's me.” That was the moment when i became a figure, a person involved in mergers and acquisitions. It was fun. It was really fun. As a child, i was a competitive figure skater, and the peculiarity of skating is that you often fall. And another feature of skating is that the judges are behind you, the audience is in front of you, and there is no one else on the ice with you. And i think everything else after that doesn't seem so difficult. Barbara underwood knows that being good at your job is not always enough Job: attorney general of new yorkargued: 20 cases in the us supreme courtin childhood: “i don't think i've known any powerful women” In the 70s, when i was teaching at law school, there was a cartoon in the new yorker that hung on my refrigerator. These are two little girls - at least, as far as i remember it - walking down the street, and one says to the other: “by the time we grow up, it will be too late to be the first woman in anything.”And here i am 40 years later as the first female attorney general in new york, and there are many other positions in which it is not too late to become the first woman. So why did it take so long in new york? It's hard to understand. This is usually a political process. I didn't get here because of the political process. Politics is militant. I have led my life in such a way that the idea was that i would do the best job i could do and move along this path based on the recognition of my superiority. And there were different cases when people said, “well, if it was about merit, you would get this position, but it's not just about merit.” Anyway, this time the merits turned out to be what mattered. But it doesn't happen that often in politics. I don't mean that there are no decent elected officials, i just mean that merit is often not the most important quality. Women are starting to learn how to move forward in other ways, or maybe they've been slower to realize that men seem to have more appetite for combat. I was very happy as the solicitor general of the state of new york. I felt it was a wonderful job for me, and my name didn't make the headlines that often, but it was in the bulletins. The lawyers largely understood the importance of my role. The difference is that now many people outside the legal profession have heard my name. I have never experienced or seen anything that is said to have happened in [eric schneiderman's] personal life. Like everyone present i know, i was stunned and found it completely incompatible with the person i knew as attorney general. Therefore, i can only think that he kept his personal life completely separate from his role as attorney general, and i think he built a very strong office, which i had the honor to lead. This department has done and continues to do a lot of work, including on the protection of women. Over the years, i've realized that people can be different in private than in public. I would say that the main reason [i did not run for attorney general] is that at the moment when the position here became vacant, it seemed that the most important thing to do was to continue to move the office forward on all the important work that we did. I wouldn't have been able to do this - and i probably wouldn't have been appointed by the legislature to this position - if i wasn't the non-political candidate that i was. Even if you put that aside, running for office at the same time of time, as doing all this work would be extremely difficult. That's why i told the legislative assembly and everyone who asked that i was happy to help whoever becomes the next elected attorney general. I think i can be very helpful, but of course it depends on them, whoever they are. - As it was said to gabriella payella Marty noxon showed a small leg Author: jessica weisberg Job: showrunner and producerthe credits include: sharp objects, ditland, unreal, and buffy the vampire slayer Jessica weisberg: have you ever used sex appeal to get what you want? Marty noxon: when i first started my business, it definitely helped me to be considered attractive. Here are my legs! But in the right amount so that they are attractive, not distracting and unprofessional. So sex appeal, yes. I had so many ways to get an invitation to a room, and talent didn't always seem to be enough. But sex is not. Don't fool around with someone who can directly help you, because then a rumor may spread that you are not talented and are just using sex to get ahead. Even when it was offered to me, and i might have wanted to. No. When was the last time you flirted to get what you want? At 54, i'm just flirting to flirt. I get what i want now because i'm good at what i do and only partially interested in money. My “no" power is very strong. Your main characters often do not control their emotions, their addictions, their relationships. Do you think there's any power in being a loose cannon? Ha! Obviously, yes. We all have dirty parts. It is the idea of perfection that isolates us and prevents us from realizing that we are not really alone. Julie schwietert collazo reunited migrant mothers with their children By lauren hilgers Job: writerleads: a program for separated immigrant families without leaving their kitchenattracted: 300,000 us dollars as of the end of july When julie schwitert collazo started a gofundme campaign in june, she was a self-employed mother of three who decided to help reunite one migrant mother with her children. And then the effort skyrocketed. One mother led to another and another to another. By august, collazo and her growing team had created immigrant families together. They worked with hundreds of volunteers across the country and attracted corporate partners - casper mattresses and tribeca pediatrics - and wealthy eligible donors. To date, they have paid off debt obligations to at least 50 women, reunited them with their families, and expanded their mission to help hundreds of newly arrived children and immigrant families. In my life there were many examples of women who had a sense of their own freedom of action. My grandmother was a single mother who worked two jobs to feed my mom and her brother. My mom was the first person in her family to go to college working as a hairdresser to pay for it. I have a really cool newspaper clipping where she is depicted, like: “gainesville, florida's first female hairdresser!” It wasn't power with a capital p. It was a grounded sense of self-worth, which i think is the highest form of power. So many people are afraid to be themselves because they're afraid they're not good enough. Not beautiful enough or not knowledgeable enough. You can achieve a lot if you don't spend a huge amount of energy on maintaining this false sense of self. We started with the project "communication" and reuniting mothers with their families. After that, volunteers at bus stations began sorting out people who were getting out of custody. This may include checking that diapers are delivered to a bus station in des moines, iowa, or finding a pediatric orthopedist in knoxville who would agree to treat a child with a broken femur and dislocated hip joint for free. My approach to life in general is as follows: do what you can with what you have. You don't have to wait to figure something out; you don't have to wait until you have all the money or all the necessary volunteers. If i waited, i'd wait until... What? Until my kids go to college? If i had waited for all the “right” conditions, nothing would have ever happened. Del harvey doesn't want to silence the trolls-she just wants them to be harder to hear. By madison malone kircher Position: twitter vice president for trust and security note: del harvey is not her real name Your twitter team consists mainly of women. Have you always worked in a women-oriented environment? I spent five years in a non-profit organization cooperating with law enforcement agencies to conduct bite operations on adults using the internet to attract those whom they considered minors to sex. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the vast majority of people who worked in law enforcement were men. Sometimes, on the phone, they just assumed by default that i was the guy on the phone. My voice is deep enough for you to make that assumption. That was the first time i met people in person and just saw the realization flash across their faces at that moment: “oh, no. Did i say something terrible that i absolutely shouldn't have said because i thought i was talking to a guy? Did i offend her in some horrible way?” Now you are in a position leading trust and security, where you have power over a significant portion of the internet. I really try to think about the work we do, almost from a human rights perspective. This means that we obviously want people to feel that they can safely express their thoughts on twitter, but you want to make sure that there are safeguards in place so that one person's free expression does not negatively affect another person's privacy rights. What about intentionally bad actors? There is one thing to keep in mind: the vast majority of twitter users do not engage in any negative behavior. Even among people who engage in bad behavior, the vast majority of these people do it because they didn't know what our rules were, or they had a fight with someone and the situation became too tense, or they just didn't think once. The remaining, very tiny number of people who are intentionally bad actors, if you will, we are limited in terms of what we can do on twitter, but we are currently working to make sure that we are not actually encouraging bad behavior in the first place. You're a notoriously secretive person. You have taken a pseudonym, and people know very little about your past. What prompted you to create these boundaries? Even apart from the roles i've had, i'm just a private person. There were threats that were directed against various leaders of the platform. Of course, there are people who have a very strong attitude to our work, of course, not always in a positive way. I use a mailbox. This decision dates back to the time, which is perhaps unsurprising, when i was working with law enforcement on these bite operations. When i found myself in this role, it became more and more reasonable to make sure that i continued to follow the rules of personal safety. Katrin jakobsdottir heads a feminist utopia - and still thinks she has ways to succeed Position: prime minister of iceland implemented: the world's strictest wage equality laws works: with the most gender-balanced legislature in the world The great thing about being a female politician in iceland is that despite being asked all the time: “how do you raise children, being a politician, blah, blah, blah,” to which i always say, “i don't remember you ever asking a man about it” - i think that in general society is really starting to accept women in power. It's really dramatic. When i go abroad, i have this reaction: "wow, what happened in iceland?" Why are you the prime minister? Well, uh, good question! But women politicians in iceland still face many challenges. Despite the fact that many people note that we have a second female prime minister, we have had 30 or 40 men holding the same post. Women are still a minority in parliament. For about the last nine years, we have been ranked first in the world economic forum's gender gap report. Thus, one might think that we have achieved perfect gender equality, but it is still not there. When a woman says something like: “i want to be prime minister,” she is considered a bit strange. I feel like some people don't like it when a girl says she wants to control everyone. Old habits die hard. What could women in the us learn from iceland? Maybe sometimes you need drastic actions to get results. We had a purely female party, we used gender quotas on the boards of directors of large companies. There will always be this backlash saying that change will come in due time. But history has shown us that it doesn't come by itself. - As alexa tsulis-rey said

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