Gayle Lemmon from TEDxWomen - “Think Bigger”
I loved this talk. Takeaways:
- “We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors. And in ways both big and small, the narrative of the victim shapes the way we see women. You can’t count what you don’t see and we don’t invest in what’s invisible to us.”
- “If you’re going to talk about jobs, then you have to talk about entrepreneurs. And if you’re talking about entrepreneurs in conflict and post conflict settings then you must talk about women because they are the population you have left. Rwanda in the immediate aftermath of the genocide was 77% female.”
- “If you see the word Microfinance, what comes to mind? Most people say women. And if you see the word Entrepreneur? Most people think men. Why is that? Because we aim low and we think small when it comes to women. Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool that leads to self-sufficiency and self-respect but we must move beyond micro hopes and micro ambitions for women because they have so much greater hopes for themselves.”
Her upshot, btw: AWESOME WOMEN ARE NOT THE EXCEPTION. Anyway, I loved this talk, and I love Gayle.
(Transcript from Shawna Little)
