{"id":1200,"date":"2017-03-20T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annelitwin.com\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2017-03-20T08:00:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T12:00:48","slug":"women-must-persist-to-be-heard-what-will-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/blog-posts\/women-must-persist-to-be-heard-what-will-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Must Persist to Be Heard: What Will Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe spectacle of Senator Elizabeth Warren being silenced by a man in a male-dominated organization\u2014in this case on the floor of the US Senate\u2014was very familiar to many women. And then, as is typical, four men stood up and read aloud the same letter she had been reading\u2014they were not silenced.\nSusan Chiara<\/a> of the New York Times<\/em> notes that \u201cbeing interrupted or ignored, and being one of the few women in the room, can be both inhibiting and enraging.\u201d Gail Collins<\/a> of the New York Times<\/em> quotes Senator Kirsten Killebrand, who believes that, while Senator Mitch McConnell says he silenced Warren because \u201cshe persisted,\u201d he targeted Warren because she has been effective, and Republicans feel threatened by her. Their attempt to silence her has backfired, and both her credibility and the outrage women feel about her treatment have skyrocketed. We can now see, perhaps more clearly than ever, that we must persist to get our voices heard.\nChiara<\/a> notes that talking over women and shutting them down happens in most professions and \u201cis a bi-partisan exercise.\u201d She explains that women in the Obama White House \u201cbanded together to work on \u2018amplification,\u2019 taking care in meetings to repeat other women\u2019s points and give women credit for ideas they had first raised.\u201d\nI have written in previous articles about the price women pay<\/a> when they do persist and are seen as too aggressive. I have also written about why women\u2019s voices are needed<\/a> and what leaders can do<\/a> to help women get their voices heard.\nIt\u2019s not easy to persist, but we must in order to be heard. Let\u2019s persist and support each other in the process in the way the women in Obama\u2019s White House were able to do. Our contributions are important.\nWhat has worked for you?\n \nPhoto courtesy of Edward Kimmel<\/a>. CC by-sa 2.0<\/a>]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[163,225,329,449,457,521,612],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-gender","tag-kirsten-killebrand","tag-persistence","tag-politics","tag-senate","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}