MIDTERMS THE MORE UNLIKELY THIS
GOES THROUGH.
>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
>>> NOW TO VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA
HARRIS WHO YESTERDAY ADDRESSED
VIRTUALLY THE GENERATION
EQUALITY FORUM IN PARIS.
>> IF WE WANT TO STRENGTHEN
DEMOCRACY, WE MUST FIGHT FOR
GENDER EQUALITY.
BECAUSE HERES THE TRUTH,
DEMOCRACY IS STRONGEST WHEN
EVERYONE PARTICIPATES AND IT IS
WEAKER WHEN PEOPLE ARE LEFT OUT.
WHEN WOMEN ARE HEARD, WHEN WOMEN
ARE HEARD, WHETHER THAT IS IN
THE COURTROOM, IN THE WORKPLACE,
IN THE HALLS OF GOVERNMENT OR AT
THE BALLOT BOX, DEMOCRACY IS
MORE COMPLETE.
REMEMBER TO USE THE TOOLS OF
DEMOCRACY.
WHETHER THAT IS THE FREEDOM OF
SPEECH, OR THE FREEDOM TO VOTE.
AND IF YOU DO NOT YET HAVE THOSE
FREEDOMS, FIGHT FOR THEM.
AND KNOW WE WILL FIGHT ALONGSIDE
YOU.
>> JOINING US NOW, FOUNDER AND
CEO OF ALL IN TOGETHER, LAUREN
LEADER, WHO WRITES ABOUT THE
VICE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS FOR THE
HILL.
ALSO WITH US THE CHIEF EXECIVE
OF THE TIMES UP AND RAN THE
COUNCIL ON WOMEN AND GIRLS AS
WELL.
>> LAUREN, I WANT TO START WITH
YOU, IN TERMS OF, IF YOU COULD
FRAME FOR US THE MAGNITUDE OR
WHAT POTENTIALLY THIS SPEECH
COULD MEAN FOR KAMALA HARRIS
VICE PRESIDENCY?
>> WELL, IT IS CERTAINLY AN
IMPORTANT MOMENT ON THE WORLD
STAGE REALLY IN SO MANY TERMS A
SIGNIFICANT SPEECH ON THE WORD
STAGE.
THE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE, THE
PRESIDENT OF MEXICO BOTH SPEAK
RIGHT BEFORE HER.
AND IT IS 26 YEARS SINCE HILLARY
CLINTON FAMOUSLY IN BEIJING AT
THE LAST WORLD FORUM ON WOMEN
ISSUES SAID THE FAMOUS WORDS
WOMENS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
AND HUMAN RIGHTS ARE WOMENS
RIGHTS.
IT WAS TRANSFORMATIVE AND LED TO
THIS COLLABORATION IN 180
COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD WHO
MADE SIGNIFICANT ADVANCEMENTS IN
GENDER EQUALITY.
AND THE FIRST BLACK AMERICAN
VICE PRESIDENT TO SHOW ON THE
WORLD STAGE.
>> GINA CHEN, EXPLAIN IF YOU
CAN, BECAUSE IVE TRIED ON THIS
SHOW, JOE BIDENS COMMITMENT TO
NOT JUST PAY EQUALITY, BUT
GENDER EGOTQUALITY, THIS WHITE
HOUSE HAS MORE WOMEN WORKING IN
IT.
THIS IS SOMETHING HES PRETTY
DEDICATED TO.
AND WHAT IS IT YOU THINK THE
VICE PRESIDENT NEEDS TO DO IN
HER POSITION TO CONTINUE WITH
SOME OF THE GOALS THAT WERE
INITIALLY SET OUT BY THE WHITE
HOUSE, COUNCIL OF WOMEN AND
GIRLS PUT TOGETHER BY PRESIDENT
OBAMA AND YOU BUT THEN GOTTEN
RID OF BY DONALD TRUMP?
>> WELL, ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS
THEY DID IS REINSTITUTE THAT
EFFORT WITH THE GENDER POLICY
COUNCIL, REALLY EXPAND THE
CHARGE.
A HIGHLY PLACED GROUP OF FOLKS
AT THE WHITE HOUSE, TO DIRECT
GENDER POLICY BOTH INTERNATIONAL
AND DOMESTIC ACROSS ALL OF THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
THAT IS STEP ONE, WORKING
DIRECTLY WITH THE VICE
PRESIDENTS OFFICE.
HER SPEECH JUST PULLED IT ALL
TOGETHER.
IT WAS ACCOMPANIED, MIKA, BY A
LENGTHY MESSAGE OF COMMITMENTS
TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO THE
INTERNATIONAL STAGE AS PART OF
THE EQUALITY FORUM.
WHAT WERE DOING, INCLUDING AS
YOU TALKED ABOUT WITH YAMICHE,
THE NEARLY $2 MILLION INVESTMENT
IN PAID LEAVE, FOR SECURITY FOR
WOMEN HERE IN THE UNITED STATES,
BUT COMMITMENTS ON COMBATTING
GENDER RACE VIOLENCE AROUND THE
WORLD.
TO COMMITTING TO REPRODUCTIVE
HEALTH, HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN
DOMESTICALLY AND
INTERNATIONALLY.
IM PLEASED BECAUSE THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION HAS REALLY PUT A
ROBUST AGENDA ON THE TABLE AND
ARE PURSUING IT VIGOROUSLY TO
PROMOTE GENDER EQUITY ACROSS THE
BOARD.
>> WERE GOING TO TALK ABOUT
THAT IN A SECOND.
ELISE JORDAN, YOU HAVE A
QUESTION.
>> LAUREN, YOU WROTE AND
FORECASTED VERY WELL FOR THE
HILL AND I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO
READ THAT.
BUT IN THE ACTUAL REMARKS IT DID
SEEM MORE ABOUT DEMOCRACY
PROMOTION ON THOSE, THAN ABOUT
PROMOTING WOMENS RIGHTS.
AND THERE WAS SUCH AN
OPPORTUNITY THERE FOR VICE
PRESIDENT HARRIS TO FOLLOW UP ON
WHAT THEN FIRST LADY HILLARY
CLINTON ANNOUNCED IN HER
HISTORIC SPEECH THAT IS JUST ONE
OF THE TOP SPEECHES OF ALL TIME.
WHERE DO YOU -- WHAT DO YOU MAKE
OF THE ACTUAL REMARKS?
>> YEAH, IT IS A REALLY TOUGH
LINE FOR THEM TO WATCH.
ONLY GIVEN FIVE MINUTES ITS
HARD TO PUT A LOT IN FIVE
MINUTES.
TINA IS RIGHT, THEY PUT OUT AN
EXTRAORDINARY LIST OF
COMMITMENTS FOLLOWING HER
SPEECH.
SO I THINK HARD TO CAPTURE THE
FULL BREADTH OF WHAT THE
COMMITMENTS ARE IN THE SPEECH.
I WAS FASCINATED THAT THEY
FOCUSED ON DEMOCRACY BECAUSE WE
HAVENT SEEN THAT FOR ALL THE
REASONS.
ITS TRUE THE DEMOCRATIC
INSTITUTION IS A STABILIZING
FORCE THAT ENABLES COUNTRIES.
WE SAW THAT IN AFGHANISTAN, WE
SAW THAT IN IRAQ.
WEVE SEEN IT AROUND THE WORLD.
I THOUGHT IT WAS A FASCINATING
CHOICE THAT RATHER THAN JUST
EXCLUSIVELY FOCUS ON WOMENS
RIGHTS PER SE, TO FOCUS ON A
LARGER PICTURE OF WOMENS
PARTICIPATION.
IT SURPRISED ME, IT WAS NOT WHAT
I WAS EXPECTING FROM THE SPEECH.
BUT I THINK IT DOES SIGNAL A
COMMITMENT FROM THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION, NOT JUST AT
HOME, WHERE CLEARLY THERE ARE
SIGNIFICANT ISSUES THAT NEED TO
BE ADDRESSED.
AS TINA SAID THE WHITE HOUSE IS
DOING, I THINK, YEOMANS WORK IN
TRYING TO ADDRESS THE
PROGRESSIVE POLICIES OF THE LAST
YEARS AND CATCH UP FOR THE WORK
THAT HASNT BEEN DONE.
BUT TO MAKE THIS COMMITMENT
GLOBALLY AND TO FOCUS ON WOMEN
AS ANCHORS OF DEMOCRACY I
THOUGHT WAS REALLY, REALLY
INTERESTING FROM THIS
ADMINISTRATION.
>> SO, TINA, YOUR ORGANIZATION
IS REALLY, REALLY FOCUSED ON
GETTING THE FAMILIES PLAN WHERE
IT NEEDS TO GO.
AND I AGREE WITH IT.
I THINK IT WOULD BE JUST EARTH
CHANGING FOR THE WOMEN OF
AMERICA, AS THEY LOOK FOR AN
EQUAL PLACE IN SOCIETY.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE STUMBLING
BLOCKS, THOUGH, TO THAT GETTING
PASSED?
>> WELL, YOU KNOW, WEVE GOT OUR
REPUBLICAN, YOU KNOW, LAWMAKERS
IN CONGRESS WHO DONT THINK ITS
IMPORTANT, ARE TRYING TO SAY
ITS NOT REAL INFRASTRUCTURE
BUILDING.
AND YET WE KNOW --
>> WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
>> WELL, IT IS -- CRITICALLY --
IF YOU CANT LEAVE YOUR HOUSE TO
DRIVE OVER THAT ROAD OR BRIDGE
THEYRE CONCERNED ABOUT
REPAIRING TO GET TO A JOB IF YOU
DONT HAVE CAREGIVING AT HOME
ALREADY TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR
LOVED ONES, YOUR CHILDREN.
YOUR SICK ELDERLY.
FOR TOO LONG, AMERICAN WOMEN
HAVE BEEN LEFT OUT OF THIS.
WE ARE BEHIND THE REST OF THE
WORLD, SINCE WERE TALKING ABOUT
A GLOBAL FORUM.
LETS GET REAL, WERE ONE OF
ONLY TWO COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD
WITHOUT A NATIONAL PAID LEAVE
POLICY.
PRESIDENT BIDEN IS PUTTING A
NATIONAL LEAVE POLICY ON THE
TABLE NOW AND WE NEED TO FUND IT
OR ELSE WERE GOING TO GET LEFT
BEHIND.
THIS IS A QUESTION OF ARE WOMEN
GOING TO BE INCLUDED IN THIS
ECONOMY GOING FORWARD WITH THE
INVESTMENTS THAT THE GOVERNMENT
MAKES?
OR ARE WOMEN LEFT BEHIND?
AND IF CARROT GIVING IS LEFT OUT
OF THE PROPOSALS WERE GETTING
LEFT BEHIND.
WE ALREADY KNOW OVER 2 MILLION
PEOPLE HAVE LEFT THE WORKFORCE
IN THE LAST YEAR AND ITS
LARGELY BECAUSE OF CAREGIVING,
THE DEMANDS AT HOME.
WE CANNOT SUPPORT THAT WITHOUT
THAT.
>> AND WE REALIZE THE PANDEMIC
SHOWED THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
MEN AND WOMEN AND WHAT MAKES IT
POSSIBLE FOR THEM TO KEEP THEIR
JOBS AND WHAT DOES NOT.
I MEAN, IF THE PANDEMIC DID NOT
PROVE THAT CAREGIVING IS THE
HUGE NUMBER ONE ISSUE THAT KEEPS
THEM FROM BEING ABLE TO BE A
PART OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY, I