My mom always said to me,
set your own agenda or someone else will.
The agenda of our lifetime is making sure that women
can take their full power in society.
I believe a woman can be anybody she wants to
be,
whether she wants to be a mom or a working
mom or just a mom or just working.
But we have these unpaid burdens that are on us.
Some of them are lovely ones we want to do,
which is to care for our loved ones.
But we are expected to take care of the children,
take care of our elderly parents.
And So what I want to say to women is
you need to take care of yourself 1st,
and once you do that,
then you can give fully to others.
But I also want people to understand that society can
help us with these burdens if we name them.
We name the unpaid labor that we do,
and then society puts to good policies in place.
It makes our jobs easier as women.
And so we need to stand up for really good
policies in our country.
Everybody has agency, but being able to really use our
full agency to be fully in our female power isn't
always possible.
Start now. Empower someone else and they're going to empower
everybody around them.