{"id":2984,"date":"2016-06-21T16:25:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T20:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodwin.edu\/enews\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2024-12-16T16:43:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T21:43:51","slug":"goodwin-professor-attends-first-united-state-women-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodwin.edu\/enews\/goodwin-professor-attends-first-united-state-women-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodwin Assistant Professor Attends First United State of Women Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goodwin College assistant professor of Humanities Brittney Yancy was among the 5,200 women \u2014 and a few men \u2014 at the inaugural United State of Women Summit, hosted by the White House Council on Women and Girls on June 14 in Washington, D.C. With a goal of sparking a national movement towards gender equity and justice for women and girls, the Summit focused on six themes: Violence and Justice, Health and Wellness, Work and Families, Education, Business, and Civic Engagement and Leadership. Speakers included President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Vice President Joe Biden, as well as Warren Buffett, Tory Burch, Billie Jean King, Lilly Ledbetter, Loretta Lynch, Nancy Pelosi, Amy Poehler, Shonda Rhimes, Cecile Richards, Gloria Steinem, Kerry Washington, and Oprah Winfrey.<\/p>\n<p>Currently working on her doctorate at the University of Connecticut, Yancy was able to attend the Summit through her affiliation with the\u00a0Collaborative to Advance Equity Through Research, one of the organizing partners of the Summit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be invited to be part\u00a0of the first-ever United State of Women Summit was a humbling and inspiring experience,\u201d she said. \u201cThe framing of gender equity in America typically focuses on \u2018equal pay, equal work,\u2019 but the White House Council on Women and Girls\u00a0broadened\u00a0our understanding of\u00a0equity by dealing with those hard topics\u00a0that juxtapose gender\u00a0equity with issues of\u00a0race, class, sexuality, religion,\u00a0and a variety of intersecting identities and systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The organizers had requested that the speakers share their best practices and solutions to problems in the workplace, rather than simply presenting the audience with statistics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am definitely inspired to further my work and advocacy for equity and justice,\u201d Yancy adds. The\u00a0motto of the\u00a0Summit,\u00a0\u2018We stand stronger\u00a0when we stand together,\u2019 is so true.\u00a0Gender\u00a0equity is not \u2018Women&#8217;s Work,\u2019 it is\u00a0work for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the United State of Women, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/usow.org\/\">usow.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodwin College assistant professor of Humanities Brittney Yancy was among the 5,200 women \u2014 and a few men \u2014 at the inaugural United State of Women Summit, hosted by the White House Council on Women and Girls on June 14 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodwin.edu\/enews\/goodwin-professor-attends-first-united-state-women-summit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goodwin Assistant Professor Attends First United State of Women Summit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":2985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063],"tags":[105,268,682,704],"class_list":{"0":"post-2984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-university-news","8":"tag-brittney-yancy","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-united-state-of-women-summit","11":"tag-white-house-council-on-women-and-girls","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Professor Attends First United State of Women Summit | Goodwin College<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One special Goodwin professor was invited to the inaugural United State of Women Summit, hosted by the White House Council on Women and Girls. 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