Women and Girls

Young black girls do not always get to see representations of role models who look like them.

Read our highlights from a series of conversations on solving women’s issues in the US and abroad.

This past week Aspen Institute Radio celebrated International Women’s Day by featuring conversations with Tina Tchen, White House assistant to the president and chief of staff to the first lady; Melissa Harris-Perry, Wake Forest University Professor and former MSNBC host; and more.

Young women are betraying their feminist foremothers by “feeling the Bern” and older women have yet to get with the times, where economic issues are as important as what chromosomes a leader claims. Or so the overly reductive narrative tells us.

In many parts of the world cows are given more rights than women.

This past week Aspen Institute Radio featured highlights of conversations on American cultural identity, strategies to advance women’s health on a global scale, the rise of Netflix, and lessons learned from Ebola as we face a new possible threat from the Zika virus.

For PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi — a mother, wife, and executive — the reality is simple: “I don’t think women can have it all,” she said. “We pretend we can have it all.”