Gavin Newsom’s Wife: ‘This Is a Crisis, Gender Equity Has Stalled’

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Amanpour: “You are presenting the California all women initiative. Can you tell me what this is?”

SIEBEL Newsom: “With the fact that this is a crisis. Gender equity has stalled. We know that the World Economic Forum came out with a report that we will not achieve gender equity for 131 more years. And we won’t achieve gender pay equity for 157 more years. So this is insane. So if we think about what’s happening in our world with geopolitical instability, a political divide, mental health climate crisis, extreme wealth and equality, part of that I strongly believe, and I have data to back it up, is we haven’t had diverse enough folks in particular womened at the tables of power making decisions when it comes to the private and public sectors. If we can move more women into leadership, more of a care orientation—“