What Are the Questions We Should Be Asking About Women?

John, Mark, and David each hold more corporate board seats than all female corporate directors combined. Not all three of them together. Each one of them, individually. Let that sit.

This is the season two Women's History Month episode, and we are not here to celebrate what women have survived. We are here to interrogate the systems that made survival necessary in the first place.

Dr. Patti Fletcher, Lynne Cuppernull, and Dan Ward ask the questions that the glossy Women's History Month content skips: Who wrote the rules women are still following and who are those rules actually serving? Why do we keep treating women as the variable that needs to be solved for instead of asking what kind of world we are trying to build together? What does it cost an organization when women hold real power without formal authority, and does anyone even see it? What happens to AI, the technology that has become our electricity, when women are not in the room coding it? And what would change if they were?

Also on the table: coactive versus coercive power, why soft power needs a rebrand, what men risk by showing up as feminists at work, and the French press calling Catherine Wright "the third Wright brother" and almost, almost getting it right.

This episode was sponsored by the long game. Played by women everywhere, often when they cannot see the scoreboard.

Resources we mention in this episode:

• "Disrupters: Success Strategies From Women Who Break The Mold" by Dr. Patti Fletcher
• Put a Woman In Charge, song by Keb’ Mo’
• UN Report on AI & Gender Equality
• “LIFT: Innovation Lessons From Flying Machines That ALMOST Worked and The People Who NEARLY Flew Them” by Dan Ward
• Why Women over 50 are the Future of Work in the Age of AI by Laetitia Vitaud, Fast Company
  
  

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