Michelle Obama Taps the Coolest Women in the World to Promote The United State of Women Summit

Harper's Bazaar ^ | 6/6/2016 | Erica Gonzales

[simpson96]

Leave it to First Lady Michelle Obama to rally the world's most interesting and successful ladies for The White House's United State of Women summit.

On June 14 in Washington, D.C., female heavy hitters like Oprah Winfrey, Tina Fey, Christy Turlington and Kerry Washington will take part in the convention in support of women and girls domestically and internationally. To amp up excitement for this monumental event—which will cover topics like equal pay, women's health, education, preventing violence against women, entrepreneurship, and female leadership—the summit released a promo clip on its Instagram, along with a full-length on its website.

Other featured women in the video include Meghan Smith (Chief Technology Officer of the U.S.), Cynthia Erivo (Broadway actress), Cecile Richards (President of Planned Parenthood), Cecilia Muñoz (Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council), Indra Nooyi (CEO of Pepsi), Jessica Williams (The Daily Show correspondent), Amani Al-Khatahtbeh (founder of Muslimgirl.net), Dina Habib Powell of Goldman Sachs and more.

Watch the full video below, and get ready to be inspired.

[simpson96]

Sorry, but "Barf Alert" would not fit after the title, due to the 100 character limit.

Besides the subject tmatter, there's the author, who apparantly isn't just a Kool-Aid drinker, she's a special kind of stupid.

P.S. The headline... Michelle 'taps' these women? No comment.

[alicewonders]

Oh goody, the coven is going to have a summit. Will they be drinking babies’ blood at this one?

[Cvengr]

Since women control a greater percentage of the wealth, they should be more heavily taxed in order to be fair to the children. Just sayin...

[showme_the_Glory]

No pics please. They are ALL guilty.

[wbarmy]

Laverne Cox is not a woman. Tina Fey is not powerful.

But they are good foot soldiers for the Democrat party.

[CincyRichieRich]

Cool...like ice, that kind of cool. As if she had her way there would be mass graves of white Americans. Yes,i do believe that.

[bray]

Let me guess, the only country that women are oppressed is America.

Pray America wakes

[castlegreyskull]

Any article about Michelle (Michael) Obama does not need a barf alert; it is a given.

[silverleaf]

Where the muslim Wymyn?

[mkjessup]

Cool...like ice, that kind of cool. As if she had her way there would be mass graves of white Americans. Yes,i do believe that.

Oh absolutely. Given the opportunity, Moooochelle would make Pol Pot look like Mother Teresa.

[simpson96]

"Laverne Cox is not a woman"

Reminded me of this... "Camille Paglia: ‘Transgender Mania’ is a Symptom of West's Cultural Collapse"

[rightwingintelligentsia]

I guess in Harper’s Bizzare-speak, “Coolest” translates into “Most Radical Left-Wing.”

[Senator_Blutarski]

Topics for this event?

The role of women as chattel.

The advantages of female genital mutilation.

Burkas as a style statement.

Sharia law - How to stone your sister when your husband rapes her.

[T-Bone Texan]

"...if she had her way there would be mass graves of white Americans..."

You see it, I see it, but most Americans simply do not want to address the overt hatred directed at them simply because of their ethnicity.

Simply put, there are millions of aggrieved and hateful nonwhites in this country, and they have been weaponized by the left. To kill all the white people is not beyond the pale for them, pardon the pun.

[Tax-chick]

I’m cooler than any of them.

[jughandle]

That’s awesome! They’re finally going to bring the most basic of human rights (food, education, being seen in public, etc.) to the tortured, beaten, and oppressed women of the Middle East!

Michelle, the world applauds you and your clan.

[Sooth2222]

"Cool...like ice, that kind of cool. As if she had her way there would be mass graves of white Americans. Yes,i do believe that."

Then America would look exactly like places on the globe where there aren't any white Americans -- it would look just like Sub-Saharan Africa. (It's not racist if it's the truth.)

[LostPassword]

I have a theory about gender in the workplace. Has anyone else noticed?

Women who go to non-gender-industry conferences and focus on helping the business, end up with promotions and compensation equal to men.

Women who go to women-in-indrustry conferences and focus on getting more women promoted in their company/industry, rather than the company’s revenue business, don’t get the same promotions and raises (based on performance, not gender bias but it reinforces their perceived gender bias)

Organizing the monthly my-company-needs-more-women-in-IT afternoon meetings with outside speakers talking how to get around bias and how to be offended by co-workers and report to HR does not help the company as much as the monthly introduce-IT-to-business with internal speakers from this month’s business organization (finance/marketing/legal/...).

Maybe it’s just my experience where goals and performance can be well defined and measured and tied to promotions up to the management level. And a couple of companies I’ve worked with that have pretty clear performance measurements from manager to executive level and follow them for promotions.

I have no doubt there is bias out there. I also have no doubt that young women who want to succeed based on ability rather than body parts have lots of opportunity in virtually every aspect of the business and they can choose their industry and priorities like men. Many women currently competing for top-level execs are at a disadvantage because they faced bias 20-30 years ago when most people currently competing for CEO started work. If young women today start focusing on the company business, in 20-30 years they’ll have just as much chance of CEO as young men today and just as much chance of promotion this year.

[simpson96]

:-D

[Tax-chick]

Thank you for noticing!