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MAJORA CARTER: If a woman runs a non-profit in this country, she's, I think, ten times
less likely to be funded than a guy running a non-profit.
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One of the most illuminating TED talks I ever saw was actually Isabelle Liendier's and she's
amazing women's rights activist, writer, fantastic. And she put out this stat during her talk
that even though the bulk of the non-profits nationally are run by women, that if a woman
runs a non-profit in this country, she's, I think, ten times less likely to be funded
than a guy running a non-profit and y'know it was funny because at the time I was really
struggling. Struggling. I actually was raising more money during speaking engagements to
fund y'know the shortcoming within my own budget, yet I was incubating a non-profit
run by a dear friend of mine who happened to be a guy and within his first year of operations,
nine months I think, he was able to raise pretty much what accounted for my whole entire
budget. And I sat there in the audience and just started crying because I realized—I
was like it's not just me. It is not just me. As I move forward into all these different
fields, I'm in real estate and technology and I realize it's the same story. Same exact
story, y'know for us women who are really working really hard y'know to get in these
fields. So it's not like women aren't trying and moving, but the way that we're both compensated
and or acknowledged is pretty shameful I think in these days and times and to be honest,
I'm not exactly sure why it's happening, but I think the stats are all in that it is and
so we can either decide that we're going to acknowledge it and do something about y'know
half of our population is not being supported to be the best that they can be so that is
what drives me crazy about all of this. Y'know, that we're not looking everywhere in order
to find the next great engineer, the next great scientist, the next great filmmaker
because she might happen to be female. Y'know, that's what drives me crazy. I think just
pushing as much as we can and just being out there and being supportive of other women
as we work to do this thing is a really important thing that we can do and y'know, and supportive
of the men who are also acknowledging it and want to do something about it.
I'm Majora Carter and you're watching Epiphany.